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Axing UK science department risks slower policymaking, say tech leaders

Tim Bradshaw, Ashley Armstrong, Chris Smyth and Jim Pickard in London

When your vehicle outlives its cloud: What happens next?

Automakers love connected vehicles, but support isn’t open-ended.

Garmin’s new screen-free fitness tracker doesn’t require a subscription

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Music streamer Deezer says more than 50% of daily uploads are AI-generated

Deezer said more than 90,000 AI-generated tracks were uploaded daily on the platform in June.

Google Zero is here

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Judge puts Anthropic’s $1.5 billion book piracy settlement on hold

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Computer science enrollment fell for the first time in 20 years after ChatGPT's rise, a Stanford economist says

A Stanford economist says AI may be reshaping students' choices as computer science enrollment slows.

Cisco bets on small AI for cybersecurity

The company is open-sourcing two small-language models designed just to hunt for software bugs.

Halliday’s latest smart glasses feature a much-improved display

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America needs to stop getting shocked by Chinese AI

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Anthropic has to pay authors.

In what is thought to be the largest copyright recovery case in history, a federal US judge granted final approval of Anthropic’s landmark $1.5 billion class-action settlement. In 2024, authors sued Anthropic over the training of its Claude AI chatbot using copyrighted works. Authors will be paid “as promptly as possible,” just as soon as lawyers take their $101 million cut.

Advancing next-gen AI with materials science innovation

As artificial intelligence pushes semiconductors and data centers to new physical limits, advances in materials science are becoming essential to sustaining the pace of innovation.