It’s happened yet again — this time to Apple. Apple recently had to disable AI-generated news summaries in its News app in iOS 18.3. You can guess why: the AI-driven Notification Summaries for the news and entertainment categories in the app occasionally hallucinated, lied, and spread misinformation. Sound familiar? Users complained about the summaries, but Apple…
If you’re a Microsoft 365 subscriber with a Personal or Family subscription, Microsoft just flipped a switch and activated Copilot AI features for your account. It’s a new part of your subscription, along with that 1TB of OneDrive storage and access to Office apps like Word and Excel. But there are some big catches —…
Fair warning: This isn’t your average article about what’s happening with all the newfangled AI hullabaloo in this weird and wild world of ours. Nope — there’ll be no “oohing” and “ahhing” or talk about how systems like Gemini and ChatGPT and their brethren are, like, totally gonna revolutionize the world and change life as…
Perplexity has introduced an API service named Sonar that would allow developers and enterprises to embed the company’s generative AI search technology into their applications. The company has rolled out two initial tiers – a more affordable and faster option called Sonar, and a higher-priced tier, Sonar Pro, tailored for handling more complex queries. In…
Astarion is one of the most popular companions in Baldur’s Gate 3. You’ll likely meet him early in your adventure, a Rogue whose tongue is as fast as his sword. One thing’s for sure: you want to keep Astarion around. Astarion has one distinct advantage as a Rogue over other Baldur’s Gate 3 characters. Whether…
“By ensuring that all interactions with the hardware—such as moving axes, heating components, or performing other critical actions—are verified and secure, we can minimize risks and prevent potentially dangerous situations,” Bambu wrote in a FAQ. This was necessary, Bambu wrote, because of increases in requests made to its cloud services “through unofficial channels,” targeted DDOS…
Today Netflix, the biggest streaming service based on subscriber count, announced that it will increase subscription prices by up to $2.50 per month. In a letter to investors [PDF], Netflix announced price changes starting today in the US, Canada, Argentina, and Portugal. People who subscribe to Netflix’s cheapest ad-free plan (Standard) will see the biggest…
Apple has sent out release candidate builds of the upcoming iOS 18.3, iPadOS 18.3, and macOS 15.3 updates to developers today. But they come with one tweak that hasn’t been reported on, per MacRumors: They enable all of the AI-powered Apple Intelligence features by default during setup. When Apple Intelligence was initially released in iOS…
On Monday, Chinese AI lab DeepSeek released its new R1 model family under an open MIT license, with its largest version containing 671 billion parameters. The company claims the model performs at levels comparable to OpenAI’s o1 simulated reasoning (SR) model on several math and coding benchmarks. Alongside the release of the main DeepSeek-R1-Zero and…
Today’s AI models do a poor job of providing accurate information about world history, according to a new report from the Austrian research institute Complexity Science Hub (CSH). In an experiment, OpenAI’s GPT-4, Meta’s Llama, and Google’s Gemini were asked to answer yes or no to historical questions — and only 46% of the answers…