Selamat pagi dan kita mulakan hujung minggu ini dengan Google Earth mematikan ciri menjana imej menggunakan Nano Banana yang diumumkan semalam. Ciri ini dimatikan beberapa jam selepas dilancarkan selepas menerima reaksi negatif di atas talian. Antara kerisauan pengguna ialah imej Google Earth yang dipercayai sebagai sumber sahih boleh dimanipulasi untuk tujuan yang salah. Misalnya menggunakan []

The impact will kick up a plume of debris so high, itll likely be visible through some telescopes. Astronomers will be watching.

OpenAI, syarikat induk sebalik ChatGPT, hari ini mengumumkan model kecerdasan buatan janaan mereka kini mempunyai lebih 1 bilion pengguna aktif, dan turut digunakan oleh lebih 2 juta perusahaan di seluruh dunia. Ini sekaligus memposisikan OpenAI sebagai penyedia perkhidmatan AI terkemuka dunia. Mengikut data terkini dikongsikan Google, mereka mempunyai sekitar 950 juta pengguna akitf untuk Gemini []

Reusable bomber drones carrying 18-pound payloads will compete in October's Gauntlet trial for $32 million in prototype contracts.

Major record labels including Universal, Sony, and Warner have proposed excluding AI-generated songs from official charts unless they are "substantially human made," properly labeled, legally produced, and free from manipulation concerns. The Verge reports: The proposal goes quite a bit further than a labeling proposal put forth by the RIAA, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), SAG-AFTRA, and others. That would create a set of standardized labels for AI-generated ..

Seagate's 50TB hard drives finally have a date: qualification in late 2027, shipments in 2028.

Microsoft is getting ready to create a single Copilot AI "super app" that will incorporate chat, coding, Cowork, and its new autonomous Autopilots. The app will be available for both consumers and businesses later this year. This information comes from Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, who revealed the strategy during the company's latest earnings call. Microsoft is only the latest company to join the race to create AI "super apps" which support chat, coding, and agents. OpenAI has ChatGPT Work, ..

The company appears to have built new laptops and a 2-in-1 for the Googlebook initiative.

More than 81% of Australian children ages 10 to 15 were still using social media three months after the country's under-16 ban took effect, with roughly half saying platforms never checked their age. Reuters reports: In a study published on Friday, eSafety also found most children aged between 10 and 15 were using social media just as frequently in March as they had before the ban came into force on December 10 last year, while parental awareness of their habits decreased. Children's continued ..

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Snapchat, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Substack are trying to combat the proliferation of fake AI content.

Google is untangling another service from Fit.

Fintech brokerage Clear Street is launching a private markets platform, beginning with Databricks stakes, to give investors more access to late-stage startups.

NEC launches 999g LAVIE BM94C featuring AI battery management, premium hardware, and approximately 30.5 hours of video playback.

Sony says it will proceed with ending PlayStation disc sales in January 2028 despite petitions, boycott threats, and concerns about digital ownership and the disappearance of the secondhand market. PCMag reports: After Sony's recent earnings call, an investor Q&A; session saw analysts ask about its controversial decision to end disc production across all of its consoles. The company hadn't publicly commented since its announcement and had reduced activity on social accounts and other marketing ..

Anthropic said Claude's actions ""fall short of ideal behavior." You make have stronger words to describe them.

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The company was accused of violating the Clean Air Act by the NAACP.

Yesterday the legendary leaker Evan Blass aka @evleaks shared some new marketing renders of the upcoming Pixel 11 Pro Fold, and today he's back with the 'vanilla' Pixel 11. Google Pixel 11 leaked marketing renders Like the Pixel 11 Pro Fold, the Pixel 11 will come with Gemini Intelligence. The design is similar to the Pixel 10, but the camera island's full width is now covered by glass. Interestingly, the Pixel 11 may not have the Pixel Glow RGB LED, since its LED flash is only shown in one ..

Google Earth immediately backtracks on Nano Banana integration.

Leopold Aschenbrenner, a former OpenAI researcher-turned-hedge fund manager, saw a dramatic decline this week in his AI-focused fund, Situational Awareness.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from NBC News: Cyberattacks targeting municipal water systems have been reported in at least seven states this week, prompting the FBI and the Environmental Protection Agency to warn utilities nationwide that hackers are trying to disrupt critical water infrastructure. In a public service announcement Thursday, the agencies said water and wastewater utilities have reported incidents to the FBI, with some malicious activity degrading water operations. The ..

Amazon, Alphabet and Tesla all reported negative cash flow in the latest quarter, while Meta's cash generation plummeted by 91%.

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Apple captured 49% of global smartphone revenue in the second quarter despite accounting for only 23% of shipments, showing how much more money the iPhone generates per device than competing smartphones. iPhone 17 Pro The company's iPhone revenue climbed 22% year over year in the second quarter, the fastest increase among the five largest brands, according to preliminary data from Counterpoint Research. Its share of global smartphone revenue reached a second-quarter record of 49%, up from 44% a ..

A Canadian artist dropped her iPhone 17 Pro from a plane at 3,600 feet, then found it sitting face-up and virtually untouched in a canola field. Here's why this is more common than you'd think. iPhone 17 Pro survives 3,600-foot fall from a plane Heather Cline, a mixed-media artist from Saskatchewan, Canada, routinely takes to the skies with her husband, David, in their small plane. The goal is to gain inspiration for her artwork, which often depicts the Canadian landscape from aerial ..

Kalshi, which is headquartered in New York, has already been sued by multiple states.

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Videos made with AI will no longer appear in Snapchat's public recommendations.

People had less than a day to make misleading Google Earth images with AI before Google pulled the feature.

Ukraine approves MUL.E electric military motorcycle combining minefield mobility, drone charging capability and frontline transport for demanding combat operations.

During his last call with investors before stepping down, Apple CEO Tim Cook laid out that the upcoming September quarter (Q3) will have huge customer demand that the supply chain won't be able to meet. Cook stressed that it isn't a case of RAM constraints or lack of parts, but that, put simply, customer demand for iPhones, iPads, and Macs is too great, and supply partners can't keep up. He said, "this isn't a partner or supplier issue. The issue is an incredibly strong demand." That means that ..

Google has integrated its Nano Banana 2 image generator into Google Earth, allowing users to place AI-generated events and objects onto real satellite imagery. The company says its AI-generated images contain invisible watermarks detectable through Gemini or Lens, but the BBC found those safeguards and some third-party detection tools can be fooled into labeling manipulated Google Earth images as real. From the report: A collapsed Eiffel Tower, a sinkhole swallowing the Great Pyramid of Giza ..

Tired of starting your morning staring at bright screens and stressful notifications? Raph, a creative technologist at Google, built a custom app called Glanceboard with

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It looks like the Swarovski Edition is coming back for 2026.

Apple has spent 12 years strengthening Beats without folding it into AirPods, preserving a separate brand that can reach Android users, compete at lower prices, and sell products that wouldn't fit under Apple's own name. Here's what it looks like inside the Beats lab. Beats headphones The strategy emerged from a rare look inside Beats' Culver City operations. Executives described how the company combines its original design and marketing culture with Apple's engineering resources. Apple ..

The Pandora experience is different from the Spotify one most of us are used to. Pandora Premium is worth it for some.

As OpenAI and Anthropic employees grow quieter online, researchers at Chinese AI labs are flocking to X to explain their work, recruit talent, and shape the global conversation on AI.