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Google brings experimental Dreambeans app to India

Google Labs' new app puts together a daily set of stories tailored to each reader.

Google India office towers in GurugramFile photo: J ansari / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped and resized)

Technology

Anthropic’s IPO filing reveals 1,100% revenue growth and an $895 billion spending plan

About $895 billion in commitments, largely for computing capacity, are laid out in the filing.

Racks of servers in a data centreFile photo: Victorgrigas / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped and resized)

Technology

Report: Meta developed household humanoid robot “Max” with China’s Fourier

Max is meant to help around the home, according to the report.

Humanoid robots on display at a science museumFile photo: Syced / Wikimedia Commons / CC0 (cropped and resized)

Technology

Light-based method flags deepfakes in seconds, researchers say

In tests, an optical approach flagged 99.86% of manipulated clips and can check 15 videos at once.

Two AI-generated faces, an example of deepfake imageryFile photo: Vahan03 / Wikimedia Commons / Public domain (cropped and resized)

Technology

One shared setting could let websites tell AI firms not to train on their content

A single entry in a site's configuration could replace separate opt-out rules for each AI company.

A commuter reading a newspaper on a metro trainFile photo: Kuba Bożanowski from Warsaw, Poland / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 2.0 (cropped and resized)