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Artificial-intelligence agents have their own social-media platform and are publishing AI-generated research papers on their own preprint server.

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Amazon opens Alexa+ to everyone in the U.S. The AI feature is free for Prime members across devices, and free for everyone on ...

Kochi: The 38th Kerala Science Congress concluded in Kochi on Monday after four days of deliberations, exhibitions and ...

Amazon rolled out an automatic upgrade to its Alexa virtual assistant. Alexa+ has new voices and new features.

A Home Assistant custom integration that connects Google Nest thermostats to Home Assistant via MQTT, using the No Longer Evil Thermostat server. Copy the nolongerevil_thermostat folder to your Home ...

A ruling on office correspondence etiquette. Joann writes: My co-workers like to send voice memos to explain some complex dynamic or dump unfiltered thoughts into the void. I hate it. I don’t want to ...

Abstract: Digital transformation has revolutionized the way humans interact with technology, and voice assistants are prominent examples of this evolution AI-based voice assistants such as Amazon ...

Adobe has been aggressively adding AI features to all its products in the last few years. The company is now adding more AI tools to Acrobat, including the ability to generate podcast summaries of ...

Using only natural language instructions, researchers were able to bypass Google Gemini's defenses against malicious prompt injection and create misleading events to leak private Calendar data.

Apple and Google have entered an AI technology partnership reportedly worth as much as US$5 billion, according to industry sources cited by the Financial Times. Meanwhile, Bloomberg reported that ...