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Google Changes Its Search Box for the First Time in 25 Years

Today at 00:00 AM, via Slashdot

Google is giving its iconic search box its first major redesign since 2001. The new design incorporates, you guessed it, artificial intelligence, “getting bigger and more interactive so that people can ask even longer questions and upload photographs and videos into queries,” reports the New York Times. “In addition, people can ask follow-up questions with a chatbot on Google’s main search...

NextEra and Dominion’s $67 Billion Mega-Merger Is All About the Data Centers

Yesterday at 23:00 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Inside Climate News: A proposed merger of the largest utility in the country by market value, NextEra Energy, with the sixth-largest, Dominion, would create a megacompany at a time when data centers and rapid increases in electricity demand are reshaping the industry. The proposal, announced Monday morning and contingent on state and federal regulatory...

Tech Life

Yesterday at 22:00 PM, via BBC News

We talk to an expert about the risks from AI hackers.

OpenAI Co-Founder Andrej Karpathy Joins Anthropic

Yesterday at 22:00 PM, via Slashdot

OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy has joined rival AI lab Anthropic. “The hire is a major coup for Anthropic in the high-stakes competition for elite AI talent — and another sign the company is emerging as a magnet for some of the industry’s most respected technical minds,” reports Axios. From the report: Karpathy will start this week on Anthropic’s pre-training team, which is responsible for...

StanChart To Cut Over 7,000 Jobs, Boost AI To Replace ‘Lower-Value Human Capital’

Yesterday at 21:00 PM, via Slashdot

The London-headquartered lender Standard Chartered announced plans to cut more than 7,000 jobs by 2030, with CEO Bill Winters saying the bank will replace some “lower-value human capital” through automation and AI while offering retraining to affected workers. “It’s not cost-cutting. It’s replacing in some cases lower-value human capital with the financial capital and the investment capital...

TROUTMAN IN THE LEAD?: Independent Candidate in California’s 47th Congressional District Sees Major Gains– But Race is Far From Over

Yesterday at 20:10 PM, via Tech Financials

Irvine, CA  – The race for hotly-contested California Congressional District 47 is heating up with the primary just two weeks away.  Nine candidates are vying for two spots on the November ballot, including four Republicans, two Democrats and a powerful well-funded independent Eric Troutman. Incumbent Democrat Dave Min is heavily-favored to advance beyond the June […]

“YOUR FREEDOM IS SAFE WITH TROUTMAN!”: California Congressional Candidate Eric Troutman Says Protecting First Amendment Freedoms Are Cornerstone of His Campaign in Push to June 2, 2026 Primary

Yesterday at 20:05 PM, via Tech Financials

Irvine, CA  – California Congressional Candidate Eric Troutman is focusing the remaining days of his campaign to raising awareness of threats to the First Amendment both in broadcast and social media. “I have dedicated my legal career to fighting threats to the First Amendment and constitutional rights.” Troutman says. “It only makes sense I should […]

CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys On Github

Yesterday at 20:00 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from KrebsOnSecurity: Until this past weekend, a contractor for the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) maintained a public GitHub repository that exposed credentials to several highly privileged AWS GovCloud accounts and a large number of internal CISA systems. Security experts said the public archive included files detailing how CISA...

How Google Is Starting to Win the A.I. Race

Yesterday at 19:45 PM, via New York Times

Despite its early stumbles, Google’s Gemini has leapfrogged ChatGPT in relevance and usefulness. Soon, it will be ubiquitous.

Google Makes It Easy to Deepfake Yourself

Yesterday at 19:45 PM, via Wired

Google’s overhaul of its AI creation software, Flow, includes a new video model and a tool for generating selfie videos called avatars.

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