EU will require companies to label AI-generated content starting Sunday
The takeaway: Companies operating in the European Union are now subject to a new requirement: clearly label content created or altered by artificial intelligence. Beginning Sunday, the EU's latest transparency rules take effect, covering everything from chatbot responses to AI-generated images, audio, and video. The aim is simple: users should be able to tell, without guessing, whether what they are seeing
Framework Laptop 13 Pro reviews: Premium modular computing comes at a cost
The Framework Laptop 13 Pro has earned strong early reviews for pairing a premium all-metal chassis, longer battery life, and Intel Panther Lake performance with its signature repairable, upgradeable design. Reviewers praise it as Framework's most refined laptop yet, though its premium price, warm-running CPU, and average display remain common criticisms.
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AI firms are quietly buying and destroying millions of printed books to train their models
What we know so far: A market built for libraries and booksellers is now feeding AI training, as companies seek large volumes of printed books that predate the generative AI boom. ISBNdb, which says it maintains the world's largest book database, now helps AI companies source physical books in bulk. The company says it can coordinate purchases ranging from 1,000 to 1 million books
United and Delta join growing airline ban on humanoid and animal-like robots
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WTF?! In an almost Star Wars-esque echo of "We don't serve their kind here," United Airlines and Delta Air Lines have joined other airlines in banning humanoid and animal-like robots from flights. The machines are banned from traveling either in their own seats in the cabin or in the baggage hold.
The devices that fall under this rule are defined by United as a humanoid robot that is
Apple Upgrade now lets you lease iPhones, iPads, Macs, and Watches, starting at $18/month
What just happened? Apple has announced a new financing program called Apple Upgrade that offers eligible customers the option to lease its iPhones, Macs, Apple Watches, and other products instead of buying them outright. The program is available in the US through physical Apple Stores, as well as the Apple Store mobile app and website.
Apple Upgrade is being launched in partnership with digital financial services provider Klarna,
Elon Musk's xAI sues Minnesota over law banning nudify apps
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What just happened? You'd imagine that nobody would object to a Minnesota law that would ban nudify apps in the state, but one company is so opposed to the plan that it's filed a lawsuit against the state's attorney general. Unsurprisingly, that company is Elon Musk's xAI, now called SpaceXAI.
The Minnesota law, which comes into effect this Saturday, would ban apps and websites that
4GB GPUs might return with AMD's Radeon RX 9050
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Facepalm: After users spent years waiting for mid-range and budget graphics cards to ship with more than 8GB of VRAM, the RAM crisis might not only extend this era of disappointing GPU memory pools but also drag GPUs backward. As AMD unveils a new entry-level member of the Radeon RX 9000 lineup, a leaked URL suggests that a 4GB variant exists.
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OpenAI's rogue AI agent did more than hack Hugging Face – it compromised accounts across four services
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The plot thickens It seems that OpenAI's out-of-control AI agent did more than escape its test environment and hack Hugging Face while trying to cheat on a benchmark. It also compromised accounts across four online services, including one belonging to a customer of AI infrastructure company Modal Labs.
Reuters reports that the agent broke into a sandbox hosted on Modal's platform before turning it into the launchpad for the wider
Apple is the most valuable company in the world, again
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King of the (Stock) World: After ceding its Wall Street crown to Nvidia, Apple has reclaimed the title of the world's most valuable public company, and the shift says as much about the mood on Wall Street as it does about Apple itself. Investors are growing wary of the AI infrastructure race that's driven tech valuations for years, and they're rewarding the one Big Tech giant that largely
Hundreds of shared Claude chats, including resumes and health details, showed up in Google search
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What just happened? Anthropic has moved to block search engines from indexing shared Claude conversations after hundreds of chats appeared in public search results, highlighting how easily user interactions with AI tools can spread beyond their intended audience. The issue stemmed from Claude's sharing feature, which lets users create a link to a conversation. Those links were accessible without requiring a login, and search engines indexed them like any other public webpage.