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Microsoft Launches Copilot Tasks Research Preview
Microsoft announced a major step for assistants. The new feature is called Copilot Tasks. The tool moves Copilot from chat to action. It runs multi-step…
Mobile Game Installs Drop but Spending Climbs in 2025
Mobile game downloads decreased in 2025, though the amount spent by players increased sufficiently to…
Instagram Will Tell Parents When a Teen Searches for Suicide or Self Harm
Instagram will soon notify parents when a teen repeatedly searches for terms linked to suicide…
Nvidia posts $68.1B quarter as AI boom accelerates Q4 growth
NVIDIA marked a record quarter with revenue of 68.1 billion. This is a 73 percent…
Samsung Reinvents AI on Galaxy S26 With Triple Assistants
Samsung has launched a new flagship phone that runs three different AI assistants. The device…
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GPT-4o Returns to ChatGPT After User Backlash Over Removal
OpenAI moved quickly after users pushed back on the replacement of GPT…
Perplexity Powers Truth Social Search That May Limit Sources
Truth Social has launched a new AI search called Truth Search AI.…
Musk Says Grok Ads Will Recommend Products That Solve Problems
Elon Musk told advertisers that X plans to place advertisements inside responses…
Apple Wins Tariff Exemption after New $100 Billion US Pledge
Apple announced an extra one hundred billion dollars in US investment. The…
Google Dismisses Reports of Traffic Collapse from AI Overviews
Google has pushed back against reports that its AI-driven search features are…
GPT-5 Models Leaked by GitHub Before OpenAI Announcement
A GitHub blog post briefly went live and revealed that OpenAI will…
Google’s AI coding agent Jules is now out of beta
Google has ended Jules’s public preview and set new limits based on…
Instagram Maps Your World: New Social Features Change How We Connect
Instagram Map lets users share their last active location with friends, while…
OpenAI Opens Weights for GPT-OSS Models Under Apache License
OpenAI has released GPT-OSS, its first open-weight GPT model in over six…
