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Meta adds new subscription tiers for businesses, creators and ‘AI power users’
Meta has launched a new set of “Meta One” subscription plans aimed at businesses, creators and heavy users of its AI tools, expanding on the paid features it introduced earlier this year for Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. The company insists its core apps and Meta AI will remain free, but is betting that additional revenue…
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This doorbell camera lets a human security guard watch your front door
SimpliSafe has launched the Video Doorbell Series 2, extending its AI-powered “Active Guard” proactive monitoring feature to the front door for the first time. The doorbell combines on-device AI, cloud-based computer vision and facial recognition to detect suspicious activity, allowing a human monitoring agent to view the live feed, speak through the doorbell and attempt…
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Voicemod’s new pocket-friendly device brings real-time voice changing to your phone
Voicemod has launched the Key Pocket, a small hardware device that brings its real-time voice-changing technology to mobile phones for the first time, expanding on the original Voicemod Key dongle released for consoles in late 2024. Unlike the earlier device, which only used a phone as an interface for Xbox, PlayStation and Switch, the Key…
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Thousands of ‘struggling’ Commonwealth Bank staff turn on CEO over measly pay bump after he pocketed $9M and gloated about record year
Thousands of Commonwealth Bank employees have rallied against chief executive Matt Comyn after being offered a pay increase that unions say falls below inflation, despite the CEO’s pay packet rising sharply and the bank posting record profits. More than 3,000 staff have signed a petition and the Finance Sector Union has written to Comyn, with…
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Valve is still figuring out ‘how and when’ to do Steam Deck 2
Valve has confirmed that a successor to the Steam Deck is still in the works, but the company remains undecided on the specifics of “how and when” it will arrive, according to designer Pierre-Loup Griffais in an interview with IGN. Valve has long maintained that a Steam Deck 2 depends on finding a chip that…
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Is Big Tech’s AI slowdown a safety pact or a cartel?
Tech leaders including Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, Demis Hassabis and Elon Musk have loosely agreed to “pace the frontier” of AI development, backing at least part of a proposal involving third-party auditors, domestic lab regulation and a global slowdown pact. The move has divided opinion: critics see it as a way for dominant firms to…
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Middle East drone strikes send oil above $108 as Man Utd crash 5-0
At home, Harry Dunn’s mother slams a secret US diplomat flight amid a child-images inquiry, and an ex-HMP Bristol pharmacy technician is jailed for smuggling drugs; Revolut suffers a data breach and MPs push for an AI regulator.
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Jensen Huang puts Trump on speakerphone onstage to announce robots won’t take over the world
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang put US President Donald Trump on speakerphone during an onstage appearance at the All-In Podcast’s All-In Summit, where the president dismissed concerns about artificial intelligence as a “hoax” and declared that “the robots will not be taking over.” The moment came amid a particularly active week for AI discourse, following Anthropic…
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Trump and Republican allies rail against AI controls despite growing calls for more checks – live
Donald Trump has hit back at growing calls for stronger oversight of artificial intelligence, alleging a “SICK conspiracy” against AI and data centres and insisting his administration is already preventing AI firms from acting harmfully. The row comes as senior Republicans and administration figures push back against regulation despite some AI company chief executives themselves…
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Spy chief warns AI threatens party as Beijing rejects US calls
China has rejected as “fearmongering” calls from Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei for the US to actively hinder Beijing’s progress in artificial intelligence, even as one of its own top intelligence officials publicly warned that AI could pose a threat to Communist party rule. The exchange highlights growing anxiety on both sides of the US-China…