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Google’s new AI feature lets you virtually try on clothes

The feature is launching in the United States today, letting users try on apparel items in Google’s Shopping Graph across Search, Google Shopping and product results on Google Images.

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Snapchat will now let your friends know you’ve made it home safe

Snap Map’s new “Home Safe” feature sends one-time alerts to friends, so you don’t need to remember to message others that you’re back safely.

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Mission Barns is betting that animal-free pork fat will make artificial meat delicious

It’s the first such product to reach the market, and it could unlock a host of fattened-up meat alternatives.

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Trump’s ‘anti-woke AI’ order could reshape how US tech companies train their models

When DeepSeek, Alibaba, and other Chinese firms released their AI models, Western researchers quickly noticed they sidestepped questions critical of the Chinese Communist Party. U.S. officials later confirmed that these tools are engineered to reflect Beijing’s talking points, raising concerns … Continue reading

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A new AI coding challenge just published its first results – and they aren’t pretty

A new AI coding challenge has revealed its first winner — and set a new bar for AI-powered software engineers.  On Wednesday at 5pm PST, the nonprofit Laude Institute announced the first winner of the K Prize, a multi-round AI … Continue reading

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A troubled SPAC plans to buy iRocket for $400M but it already returned most of its cash

iRocket is aiming to hit the public markets but the SPAC vehicle doesn’t have much cash left.

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Sundar Pichai is ‘very excited’ about Google Cloud’s OpenAI partnership

The comment came shortly after analysts peppered Pichai and other Google executives with questions about how AI would affect its core search business and why Google is spending an extra $10 billion on capital expenditures this year to catch up … Continue reading

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Google’s AI Overviews have 2B monthly users, AI Mode 100M in the US and India

Google shared new stats about its AI features’ adoption during its Q2 earnings.

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Tesla profits pulled down by falling EV sales and regulatory credits

Tesla saw a 17% growth in its services business, but it was not enough to close the gap in falling EV sales, fewer regulatory credits, and a decline in solar and energy storage sales.

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Trump’s AI Action Plan aims to block chip exports to China but lacks key details

The AI Action Plan offers a path, but not a concrete plan, for what the administration is thinking when it comes to chip export restrictions.

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