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About 12% of U.S. teens turn to AI for emotional support or advice General purpose tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok are not designed for this use, making mental health…
Americans now listen to podcasts more often than talk radio, study shows Recent findings also show that video podcasting -- while popular -- is not necessarily replacing audio shows. Recent…
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US tells diplomats to lobby against foreign data sovereignty laws The Trump administration has ordered U.S. diplomats to lobby against countries' attempts to regulate how American tech companies handle foreigners'…
Harbinger acquires autonomous driving company Phantom AI It's the Los Angeles trucking startup's first acquisition — the latest in a series of moves to spin up new revenue streams. It's…
Jira’s latest update allows AI agents and humans to work side by side Atlassian is unveiling "agents in Jira" which gives users the ability to assign and manage work given…
Adobe Firefly’s video editor can now automatically create a first draft from footage Adobe Firefly is getting a new feature called Quick Cut that uses AI to edit footage to…
Y Combinator grad and AI insurance brokerage Harper raises $47M Harper is an AI-native insurance brokerage that just raised a $45 million combined Series A and seed, after a member…
Amazon’s AI-powered Alexa+ gets new personality options Users will be able to choose from Alexa styles like Brief, Chill or Sweet, Amazon says. Users will be able to choose from…