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Microsoft launched Teams’ Together Mode during the pandemic to give the illusion of a bunch of people sitting in a conference room together, even if they were really sitting at home without pants on. But times have changed, and it’s now being retired in favor of a more simplified Teams experience.

Privacy will be a major theme when Apple unveils a new version of Siri at the Worldwide Developers Conference in June, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman . The Siri relaunch is widely seen as Apple’s big chance to reestablish its relevance in artificial intelligence.

Lawyers for Elon Musk and OpenAI made their closing arguments this week, and now it’s up to jurors to decide whether OpenAI did anything wrong as it’s transformed into a slightly-more-for-profit organization. But as Kirsten Korosec, Sean O’Kane, and I noted on the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast , a big theme in the trial’s final days was…

If you’ve spent any amount of time on Microsoft ’s business-focused social media site LinkedIn , you will probably be painfully aware of recruiter spam. Software developer tmuxvim is one unhappy victim, and decided to strike back, or at least extract some amusement from the AIs that relentlessly inform users of irresistible opportunities.

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt delivered the commencement address at the University of Arizona on Friday. And, as his speech veered into talk of AI, he was repeatedly drowned out by boos.

Apple is hoping that its record on privacy can be the differentiator on the AI front and maybe even buy it a little slack as it continues to lag behind the competition. According to Bloomberg ’s Mark Gurman, the more chatbot-like Siri set to debut in iOS 27 will include the option to autodelete chat histories.

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt delivered the commencement address at the University of Arizona on Friday. And, as his speech veered into talk of AI, he was repeatedly drowned out by boos.

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Commencement season has come around again — and this year, a couple speakers have discovered that it’s tough to get graduating students excited about a future shaped by artificial intelligence. Last week, Gloria Caulfield, an executive at real estate firm Tavistock Development Company, gave a speech at the University of Central Florida acknowledging that…

Hokum recently hit theaters, and it’s already outperforming box office expectations. If this Kubrick-referencing haunted hotel flick starring Adam Scott was your introduction to director Damian McCarthy, do yourself a favor and go watch his previous film, Oddity .

A week before the ElliQ robot arrived, a neurologist told me we need to rebalance my mom’s life. Her Parkinson’s disease medication had steadily become less effective over the previous month, and with it, she had slowly stopped doing many of the things crucial to managing the disease — exercising, socializing, and engaging in hobbies.

Fujifilm’s X Half digital camera wasn’t designed to replace your main camera, though you’d be forgiven for assuming it was with its ludicrous $850 price. However, the company recently reduced the MSRP to $649.99, and is now knocking an additional $100 off through June 28th.

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The vast majority of leading supercomputers and AI clusters today use CPUs for general-purpose tasks and orchestration and AI GPUs for massive parallel computing workloads to achieve exceptionally high ExaFLOPS-class performance. But in China, we are seeing a different trend, as in recent years the country has deployed a number of CPU-only supercomputers…

We continue our series about trasnformer alternatives. In our opinion section, we discuss the thesis that “every agent needs a computer” In the AI of the Week section, we dive into Thinking Machines’ interactive models which can think and listen and same time.