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Meta Buys Moltbook, a Social Network for AI

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Meta Platforms, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, has acquired Moltbook, a social networking platform designed for artificial intelligence bots to communicate with one another. Under the deal, Moltbook’s team will join Meta’s Superintelligence Labs, with the company saying the acquisition will help develop “new ways for AI agents to work for people and businesses.” Financial terms of the...

Google Expands Gemini AI Across Docs, Sheets, Slides and Drive

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Google announced on Tuesday a range of new AI features powered by Gemini for its productivity apps, including Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Slides and Google Drive. The new capabilities allow users to generate fully formatted first drafts, presentations and spreadsheets by drawing on information stored in Gmail, Chat and Drive. The aim is to make the tools more personalised...

Indonesia to Ban Social Media for Under-16s

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Indonesia has announced plans to ban social media and several other online platforms for children under the age of 16, becoming the latest country to introduce measures aimed at protecting young people from online abuse and harmful digital content. The policy was confirmed by Meutya Hafid, the country’s communications and digital affairs minister, who said accounts belonging to users under...

Amazon Unveils AI Tool to Streamline Healthcare Admin Work

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Amazon Web Services on Thursday unveiled a new artificial intelligence-powered platform aimed at improving patient access to healthcare while reducing administrative workloads for providers. The system, called Amazon Connect Health, uses agentic AI to integrate with electronic health record systems used by clinicians for tasks such as patient verification, appointment scheduling, compiling medical histories, clinical documentation and medical coding, AWS...

Alibaba Qwen Tech Lead Steps Down After Major AI Push

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Alibaba’s Qwen AI project has lost one of its most prominent technical leaders just a day after the company unveiled its latest Qwen 3.5 open-weight small models. Junyang Lin, a key technical leader on the Qwen team, announced on X on Tuesday that he was “stepping down” from the project, without providing further details. According to his LinkedIn profile, Lin...

Ocado Cuts 1,000 Jobs as AI Boosts Rival Competition

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Ocado Group announced last week that it plans to cut 1,000 roles from its workforce of around 20,000 employees, as the company scales back after years of heavy investment in technology and automation. Headquartered in Hatfield, the online grocery specialist suggested that its latest restructuring reflects the completion of a major phase of innovation in robotics and automated systems. “We have...

Apple Integrates AI Features into New $599 iPhone 17e

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Apple Inc. on Monday introduced the latest addition to its budget-friendly iPhone lineup, the iPhone 17e, priced at $599 and set to go on sale March 11. The device is powered by the A19 chip — the same processor featured in the base iPhone 17 — and supports Apple Intelligence. The entry model now starts with 256GB of storage, doubling...

Anthropic Boss Refuses US Defense Call to Loosen AI Safeguards

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AI company Anthropic has said it will not retreat from its dispute with the United States Department of Defense (DoD) over how its artificial intelligence tools are deployed. Chief executive Dario Amodei said on Thursday that the company would rather forgo Pentagon contracts than permit uses of its technology that could “undermine, rather than defend, democratic values.” His remarks came two...

Nvidia Reports Record Quarterly Earnings Despite Heavy Capex

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Chipmaker and the world’s most valuable company, Nvidia, posted record-breaking earnings in its latest quarterly results on Wednesday, driven by surging global demand for AI computing power. “The demand for tokens worldwide has grown completely exponential,” CEO Jensen Huang told analysts on the earnings call. “We’re seeing it across the board — even our six-year-old GPUs running in the cloud...

Amazon’s AI-Powered Alexa+ Adds New Personality Options

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Amazon has unveiled a new feature that allows users to customise the personality of its upgraded AI assistant, Alexa+. The company has introduced three initial personality styles — Brief, Chill and Sweet — each designed to alter how Alexa communicates with users. In Brief mode, Alexa delivers shorter, more direct answers. Chill gives responses a relaxed, laid-back tone, similar to a...