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Threads is testing a Meta AI integration that works similarly to Grok in X. Users with public accounts can mention Meta AI in posts or replies to learn more. This feature is currently in beta testing in Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Argentina, and Singapore. Meta told TechCrunch via email that the feature is designed to allow people to get real-time context on trends and breaking news, as well as receive recommendations, in conversations. Users can refer to Meta AI and ask questions like, “Why are we talking about the World Cup this month?”, “Whose fashion is trending at the Met…
Android characters on display in front of a building at Google’s headquarters campus on July 23, 2025 in Mountain View, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Imagesgoogle Just a few weeks ago, we used the latest Android rollout to make Gemini less of a chatbot and more of an operating layer across phones, browsers, cars, and laptops. apple is expected to show off its own Gemini-powered Apple Intelligence reboot at WWDC. Ahead of next week’s Google I/O developer conference, the company previewed a number of Android updates, including AI-powered app automation, a smarter version of Chrome on Android, new tools for…
Emilia Clarke’s brain aneurysmEmilia Clarke, who filmed battle scenes for Game of Thrones, published an essay in The New Yorker in 2019 titled “A Battle for My Life.”After suffering a severe headache at the gym, the actress writes, “I made it to the bathroom and fell to my knees feeling very, very sick.” “During that time, the pain was getting worse with shooting, stabbing, squeezing pain. On some level, I knew what was happening: my brain was damaged.”She was taken to the hospital for a brain scan.”The diagnosis was swift and ominous: a subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) is a life-threatening type…
Suspending the federal gasoline tax could bring prices down significantly. But experts say the measure may not provide meaningful relief to consumers and could deplete key federal funds for highway construction and maintenance.On Monday, President Donald Trump said in an interview with CBS News that he wanted to suspend taxes “for a period of time,” before saying in remarks from the Oval Office that he would “cut” them.According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, taxes and other charges on retail gasoline and diesel fuel are 18.4 cents per gallon for gasoline and 24.4 cents per gallon for diesel. Reducing or…
Google on Tuesday announced a new “Create My Widget” feature for Android that allows users to vibe-code their own custom widgets. The feature will first be introduced on the latest Samsung Galaxy and Google Pixel smartphones this summer. To create a widget, users can use natural language to describe what they want. For example, you can ask the feature to “suggest three high-protein meal prep recipes each week” to get a custom dashboard that you can add to your home screen and resize. Or, if you’re a cyclist who only cares about wind speed and rain, you can create a…
london — Keir Starmer has posed a challenge to potential rivals, ignoring calls to step down as UK prime minister and instead challenging his candidacy to mount a formal challenge to his Labor leadership. A fifth of Labor’s MPs, or 81 MPs, would need to unite around a single candidate to trigger a leadership challenge. If one or more candidates gathers that level of support, they can put their name on the ballot paper to face Mr Starmer in a race where Labor members vote. Despite nearly 100 MPs publicly urging Starmer, 63, to resign, no candidate has yet formally…
How much time do coaches actually spend working with The Voice artists?Celebrity coaches may not be practicing all night, but they’re hard at work getting their teams ready for the battle rounds and the games that follow. “The coaching sessions will take place over four days, and the actual combat performance will take two days,” Morrissey said. On the other hand, how involved a coach is with each artist “is up to the coach. Some coaches love large-scale productions and like to get into the details. Others focus primarily on the music and arrangement of the performance,” she added. Morrissey…
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on May 5, 2026 in New York City, USA. Brendan McDiarmid | ReutersThe war between the US and Iran continues with no sign of a peace agreement. Someone needs to tell the stock market. After a small initial decline near the start of the war, the S&P 500 index rebounded to an all-time high and closed above 7,400 for the first time ever on Monday, even though oil prices remain high. Some say the stock market is fueled by speculative activity and ignores the impact of the coming…
Anthropic on Tuesday announced the launch of a number of new chatbot features designed to provide automated assistance to law firms. The new features expand on Claude for Legal, a law-focused product launched earlier this year, providing users with a new set of legal plugins and MCP connectors designed for specific legal areas. The new tool comes amid intense competition in the legal AI field. In March, Harvey, an AI legal startup that uses agent AI to automate legal workflows, raised $200 million at a valuation of $11 billion. Last month, rival startup Legora raised $600 million in Series D…
Altman says he was ‘completely caught off guard’ by his ouster in 2023Altman is answering questions about the tumultuous few days when he was briefly ousted as CEO of OpenAI in 2023. He said he was “completely caught off guard” and “quite shocked” by the board’s decision to remove him, and that he did not get much of an explanation as to why, other than that he had not been consistently candid in his communications. Altman said he was very angry and hurt as these events unfolded. He said he had poured years of his life into OpenAI, and he…