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Senators voted to advance the House-passed stopgap spending bill on Friday as the deadline for a government shutdown inches closer. The House-passed short-term spending bill, known as a continuing resolution (CR), would keep spending levels the same as fiscal year (FY) 2024 until Oct. 1. However, if a spending bill is not passed by 11:59…
Amazon is discontinuing a feature that allowed users of some of its Echo smart speakers to choose not to send their voice recordings to the cloud. According to an email the company sent to users that was posted on Reddit, it will disable the feature that allowed select Echos to process Alexa requests locally on…
Anthropic is one of the worldâs leading AI model providers, especially in areas like coding. But its AI assistant, Claude, is nowhere near as popular as OpenAIâs ChatGPT. According to chief product officer Mike Krieger, Anthropic doesnât plan to win the AI race by building a mainstream AI assistant. âI hope Claude reaches as many…
OpenAI and Google are pushing the US government to allow their AI models to train on copyrighted material. Both companies outlined their stances in proposals published this week, with OpenAI arguing that applying fair use protections to AI “is a matter of national security.” The proposals come in response to a request from the White…
Several types of skincare products used to treat acne have been recalled due to a cancer risk. The products, which contain benzoyl peroxide, a common treatment for acne, were tested for elevated levels of benzene, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said in a notice this week. The recalled products include: FDA RECALLS COMMON…
Fran McCaffery was reportedly fired as the University of Iowa’s men’s basketball head coach Friday after a 15-year stint running the program. McCaffery’s firing came just one day after he was ejected from a blowout loss to Illinois in the Big 10 Tournament Thursday. The team will miss the NCAA tournament for the second straight…
Gene Hackman and Betsy Arakawa Hackman’s dog likely died from dehydration and starvation, according to a report obtained by The Associated Press. The report, released by the Santa Fe County animal control agency, stated that the partial mummification of the animal could have obscured changes in the organ, but there was no evidence of poisoning,…
When the U.S. declared war on Japan on December 8, 1941, no one dared see the U.S. as the aggressor because Japan had already bombed Pearl Harbor. That’s precisely how President Donald Trump’s tariff fight should be viewed: America isn’t the aggressor but is simply defending herself. The discussion about tariffs is not happening in…
Google releases a lot of products, but it shuts down a lot of them, too. Some didn’t deserve to be discontinued (we pine for the days of Reader and Inbox), and some probably weren’t long for this world from the start. (What was Google Wave supposed to be, anyway?) The company actually used to shut…
Google is finally moving on from Google Assistant. The company will be upgrading “more” users from Google Assistant to Gemini “over the coming months,” according to a blog post. The classic Google Assistant “will no longer be accessible on most mobile devices or available for new downloads on mobile app stores” at some point “later…