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Nascent robotaxi services Waymo and Cruise are going to be out in force on the Streets of San Francisco like rambunctious, autonomous, teenaged hooligans after a state public utilities body granted the companies license to drive out at all hours of the day and night, even without a safety driver behind the wheel.

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Bad news for iPhone and Android users looking to snag a luxury car. GM just confirmed that Cadillac’s upcoming Escalade IQ—which boasts a hefty price tag of $130,000—will not have CarPlay or Android Auto support.

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Illustration demonstrating AI bias
After testing 14 major language models, the researchers found that OpenAI's ChatGPT and GPT-4 were the most left-leaning and libertarian, and Meta's LLaMA AI model was the most right-leaning and authoritarian.
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A map of a virtual village where several AI bots are walking around buildings and speaking to each other while standing in furnished rooms.
Researchers from Stanford and Google have made an AI village, where 25 bots gossip, work, and plan Valentine's Day parties.
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A girl views a new iPad tablet computer at an Apple store during its UK launch in central London May 28, 2010. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor
A girl views a new iPad tablet computer at an Apple store during its UK launch in central London
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Tom Siebel, CEO of the artificial intelligence firm C3.ai.
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Universal Music Group and Google are in discussions to license artists’ voices and melodies for AI-generated content.

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Apple has once again had a wrench thrown in its plans for smartphone hardware, though it won’t affect the hotly anticipated autumnal release of the iPhone 15. Saudi Arabia had passed a law requiring all future smartphones sold in the country to have USB-C ports beginning in 2025.

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Tech news website CNET has deleted thousands of old articles over the past few months in a bid to improve its performance in Google Search results, Gizmodo has learned.

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Google hungers for all that content produced by the wealth of digital publishers creating text, video, and images on a daily basis. To deal with the sticky copyright issues at the heart of AI training, Google is proposing that all those companies who don’t want their content gobbled up will need to “opt-out” to ensure…