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Toy Story 5 became the franchise’s biggest movie by taking tech seriously
Nearly 31 years after the first Toy Story arrived in theatres, Toy Story 5 has become the franchise’s biggest theatrical entry by putting a different kind of technology at the centre of playtime. The film, released…
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Google fined €403 million over location data processing in EU privacy case
Google has been fined €403 million, about US$463 million, by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission after a GDPR inquiry into how Google processed…
The humanoid robot market finally has a reality check
The humanoid robot market now has a number attached to the hype, and it is much smaller than the stage demos suggest.…
Amazon blocks Meta’s Muse as the fight over AI shopping begins
Amazon’s decision to block Meta’s Muse from shopping on Amazon.com raises an important question about agentic commerce: if an AI arrives acting…
Alibaba’s Zhenwu V900 chip is only one piece of a bigger AI plan
Alibaba’s latest AI announcement is less about one accelerator than about control of the system around it. At its Apsara Conference in…
Meta hotfixes Muse Mac zero-day after agent hijack warning
Meta has issued a hotfix for Muse for Mac after macOS security researcher Patrick Wardle published a proof of concept showing how…
Google Ads tests AI dubbing for video ads in Asset Studio
Google Ads appears to be pushing video localization deeper into its ad creation workflow. The practical appeal is cost. Video localization often…
