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Microsoft and OpenAI Add AI to Search Engines
- OpenAI has introduced SearchGPT, an AI-powered search engine, while Microsoft has added AI features to its Bing search engine. Learn more about the development and its implications for the online search industry. OpenAI has launched a new AI-powered search engine prototype called SearchGPT. Microsoft has announced a significant update to its Bing search engine to highlight AI-powered answers to customer queries. In ...

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TECHNOLOGY  
X is training Grok AI on your data—here's how to stop it
- X is training Grok AI on your data—here's how to stop it Some users were outraged to learn this was opt-out, not opt-in. Elon Musk-led social media platform X is training Grok, its AI chatbot , on users' data, and that's opt-out, not opt-in. If you're an X user, that means Grok is already being trained on your posts if you haven't explicitly told it not to. Over the past day or so, users of the platform ...

Source: arstechnica.com
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Reddit is now blocking big search engines and their AI web crawlers from bringing up relevant posts – unless they pay up, and Google already has
- If you don't use Google as your search engine, then you won't see Reddit posts in your search results – or at least not recent content from Reddit, anyway. This is the state of play in the search world now, following a fresh move by Reddit, as explained by spokesperson Tim Rathschmidt in a statement provided to The Verge . Ratchschmidt said: "We have been in discussions with multiple search engines. We have ...

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SpaceX Pinpoints Cause of Rare Falcon 9 Launch Failure
- SpaceX's workhorse launch vehicle has been cleared to fly following an investigation into the July 11 incident, which resulted in the loss of 20 Starlink satellites. A faulty sensor line led to the failure of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket earlier this month, temporarily grounding the workhorse launch vehicle. On July 11, the rocket was unable to deliver its payload of satellites to orbit due to an upper stage ...

Source: gizmodo.com
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What to expect from Made by Google 2024: Pixel 9 Pro Fold, Watch, Android 15, AI, and more
- Google's next big product launch takes place on August 13. Here's everything you can expect from the event. Not to be outdone by Samsung's recent Unpacked event , Google is hosting a product launch of its own next month. Dubbed "Made by Google," the event should feature the latest Pixel hardware, including the Pixel 9 series, Pixel Buds Pro 2, and Pixel Watch 3. If the company's feeling generous, there may even be ...

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Fortnite Returning to iPhones After Four-Year Long Legal Battle
- Epic is planning to deploy Fortnite and more on third party app marketplace AltStore, but it's also removing it from Samsung Galaxy phones. four-year-long saga     It's good news for iOS users (at least in the EU) but bad news for Samsung fans since you'll no longer find Fortnite  or any other of Epic's mobile titles on the Galaxy Store. In January, Apple opened a crack in its infamous walled garden ...

Source: gizmodo.com
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Google DeepMind AI becoming a math whiz
- "These are extremely hard mathematical problems and no AI system has ever achieved a high success rate in these types of problems," Pushmeet Kohli, vice president of research focused on AI for science at DeepMind, said in a press briefing. How it works: AlphaProof teaches itself by trial-and-error — without human intervention — in what's known as reinforcement learning. The approach powered DeepMind's ...

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Disney+, Hulu, Max bundle available Thursday
- July 25 (UPI) -- The new Disney +, Hulu, and Max bundle launched in the U.S. on Thursday. New and existing subscribers can sign up for the bundle for $16.99/month with ads and $29.99/month without ads. The bundle offers a 38% savings compared to purchasing each streaming service separately. The monthly streaming subscription also includes shows and films from ABC, CNN, DC, Discovery, Disney, Food Network, FX, HBO, ...

Source: upi.com
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Google's Gemini AI is getting faster with its Flash upgrade
- Google's Gemini AI chatbot will be able to respond to you more quickly and process more content in prompts thanks to an upgrade to the company's Gemini 1.5 Flash AI model. With the upgrade to 1.5 Flash, you'll see "across-the-board improvements in quality and latency, with especially noticeable improvements in reasoning and image understanding," Amar Subramanya, VP of engineering for Gemini, says in a blog post . ...

Source: theverge.com