A humanoid robot called Tiangong Ultra ran 100 meters in 8.64 seconds at Beijing's World Humanoid Robot Games, beating Usain Bolt's human world record of 9.58.
Tech & AI
Meta will pay up to $18 billion and limit teens to two hours a day on Facebook and Instagram under settlements with nearly every U.S. state.
Bitcoin held near $79,000 on Wednesday following a strong week for the cryptocurrency market.
DeStorm Power and Taryn Southern built their careers in YouTube’s earliest days, back when uploading a video and building an audience was itself the disruption. Now they’re being asked to weigh in
For Bitcoin, the numbers were encouraging. The market reaction, however, was surprisingly calm.
Producer Kathleen Kennedy and American Film Institute dean Susan Ruskin have been quietly convening Hollywood power players and Silicon Valley figures since 2023 to hash out AI’s role in filmmaking, The Ankler
A 404 Media investigation tracked 1,000 books to an Amazon warehouse where spines get cut off and pages scanned for AI training. Inc. found similar orders going back to 2024.
Thousands of T-Mobile customers lost service Monday afternoon, and a lot of them found out the same way. The signal bars vanished. In their place, one small word appeared at the top
America’s Bitcoin mining industry is booming. New mining campuses are breaking ground across the country, artificial intelligence companies are building data centers at record speed, and billions of dollars are being invested in
Midjourney has acquired Co-Star, the brutally honest astrology app with 4.3 million monthly users. Here's what the deal means for both apps and Midjourney's expansion plans.
Snap has tentatively settled a social media addiction lawsuit, joining TikTok and YouTube and leaving Meta alone to face a jury July 27. Here's why creators should be watching this one closely.
Lorde criticized Spotify's "About the Song" AI feature, calling an AI-generated description of her track inaccurate and saying artists should be able to opt out.
Anthropic's new AI ad opens on a burning house and cuts to a field of gravestones. Sam Altman mocked it, the internet piled on, and one question stuck: can Anthropic be trusted?
That was 2011. InMobi, the mobile advertising platform Tiwari built out of Bangalore starting in 2007, had just become India's first startup valued at over $1 billion. He did it again with
Meta this week rolled out Muse Image, an artificial intelligence image generator that can pull from public Instagram accounts to create new pictures, and the union SAG-AFTRA is urging users to change
For as little as $50, modders were drilling out the recording light on Meta smart glasses so wearers could film people covertly, including in restrooms. Now Meta is disabling the camera when
Weave Robotics launched Isaac 1, a wheeled home robot that folds laundry and tidies up for $7,999. It undercuts humanoid rivals, but is it still too expensive?
Domino's Pizza UK posted a satirical "official statement" announcing digital-only pizzas, mocking PlayStation's decision to end physical game discs in 2028.
LinkedIn is suppressing AI-generated content while creators win by leaning into authenticity. Here is what the anti-slop shift means for brands.
