Source: TechCrunch | Published: Fri, 24 Oct 2025 19:00:00 +0000 | ID: ebf7db35e923
| Engagement: [49.5/100] π° Standard
| Topics: π€ Ai Ml, π’ Big Tech
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The browser wars are heating up again, this time with AI in the driverβs seat. OpenAI just launched Atlas, a ChatGPT-powered browser that lets users surf the web using natural language, and even...
Check out this tech news: The browser wars are back, and this time theyβre powered by AI... https://techcrunch.com/video/the-browser-wars-are-back-and-this-time-theyre-powered-by-ai/
Check out this tech news: India, the market BlaBlaCar once walked away from, is now its biggest... https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/25/india-the-market-blablacar-once-walked-away-from-is-now-its-biggest/
Source: TechCrunch | Published: Sat, 25 Oct 2025 15:00:00 +0000 | ID: 76eba849db68
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About a week ago, I woke to a dizzying DM on Instagram β Rizzbot flipping me off. This sent me down a rabbit hole about humanoids in society.
Check out this tech news: TikTokΒ robot starΒ RizzbotΒ gave me the middle finger... https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/25/tiktok-robot-star-rizzbot-gave-me-the-middle-finger/
Check out this tech news: The glaring security risks with AI browser agents... https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/25/the-glaring-security-risks-with-ai-browser-agents/
Check out this tech news: How to use the new ChatGPT app integrations, including Spotify, Figma, Canva, and others... https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/24/how-to-use-the-new-chatgpt-app-integrations-including-spotify-figma-canva-and-others/
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As Immigration and Customs Enforcement carries out raids across the country, the agency is working rapidly to expand an online surveillance system that could potentially track millions of users on the...
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Check out this tech news: Tech billionaires are now shaping the militarization of American cities... https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/troops-in-us-cities-tech-billionaires-are-shaping-that-too/
Source: The Verge | Published: 2025-10-25T11:09:15-04:00 | ID: 484b1a852826
| Engagement: [43.5/100] π° Standard
| Topics: π€ Ai Ml, π’ Big Tech
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Appleβs AirTags have become one of my essentials while traveling, namely because they let me check whether my luggage is in the right place instead of panicking at the baggage claim. And right now, yo...
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Research paper by Nimrod Berman, Omkar Joglekar, Eitan Kosman et al.. Recent advances in generative modeling have positioned diffusion models as state-of-the-art tools for sampling from complex data d...
Check out this tech news: Towards General Modality Translation with Contrastive and Predictive Latent Diffusion Bridge... http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.20819v1
Check out this tech news: Are you the asshole? Of course not!βquantifying LLMsβ sycophancy problem... https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/10/are-you-the-asshole-of-course-not-quantifying-llms-sycophancy-problem/
Check out this tech news: A single point of failure triggered the Amazon outage affecting millions... https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/10/a-single-point-of-failure-triggered-the-amazon-outage-affecting-millions/
Check out this tech news: Man takes herbal pain quackery, nearly dies, spends months in hospital... https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/10/man-takes-herbal-pain-quackery-nearly-dies-spends-months-in-hospital/
Check out this tech news: Clinical trial of a technique that could give everyone the best antibodies... https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/10/dna-and-jolts-of-electricity-get-people-to-make-optimal-antibodies/
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Research paper by Guocheng Gordon Qian, Ruihang Zhang, Tsai-Shien Chen et al.. Despite their impressive visual fidelity, existing personalized generative models lack interactive control over spatial c...
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Research paper by Mateo Guaman Castro, Sidharth Rajagopal, Daniel Gorbatov et al.. A fundamental challenge in robot navigation lies in learning policies that generalize across diverse environments whi...
Check out this tech news: VAMOS: A Hierarchical Vision-Language-Action Model for Capability-Modulated and Steerable Navigation... http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.20818v1
Check out this tech news: Muskβs ad chief at X departs after just 10 months... https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/24/musks-ad-chief-at-x-departs-after-just-10-months/
Check out this tech news: The Android-powered Boox Palma 2 Pro fits in your pocket, but itβs not a phone... https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/10/the-android-powered-boox-palma-2-pro-fits-in-your-pocket-but-its-not-a-phone/
Check out this tech news: Teslaβs βMad Maxβ mode is now under federal scrutiny... https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/10/feds-probe-tesla-about-its-mad-max-mode/
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Right now, there are robots stocking convenience store shelves in Japan. We haven't embraced that tech here in America yet, but it's hard to imagine 7-11 or Walmart won't at least experiment with it s...
Check out this tech news: Tech left teens fighting over scraps, and now it wants those too... https://www.theverge.com/report/806728/tech-left-teens-fighting-over-scraps-robots-taking-jobs
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During a recent all-hands meeting, Waymo's chief winter weather expert laid it out for all the company's engineers and product managers: if Waymo wants to expand to new cities and new markets, it's ro...
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Research paper by Yihao Meng, Hao Ouyang, Yue Yu et al.. State-of-the-art text-to-video models excel at generating isolated clips but fall short of creating the coherent, multi-shot narratives, which ...
Check out this tech news: Whale and dolphin migrations are being disrupted by climate change... https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/10/whale-and-dolphin-migrations-are-being-disrupted-by-climate-change/
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When people sign up for a dating site like Tinder, they don't expect their profiles and personal information to be searchable - especially by a scorned lover, or worse. But that's what popular apps li...
Check out this tech news: The rise of “catch a cheater” apps exploits our worst human tendencies... https://www.theverge.com/tech/806465/catch-cheater-app-facial-recognition-tinder
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It's dusk, and bugs are chirping all around me. I'm wandering through the middle of a big, virtual swamp toward the sound of thumping bass off in the distance. There isn't much else nearby - some tree...
Check out this tech news: Bored Ape Yacht Club is making a comeback β as a metaverse... https://www.theverge.com/tech/806492/bored-ape-yacht-club-bayc-crypto-metaverse-otherside-yuga-labs
Check out this tech news: Microsoft Teams will start snitching to your boss when youβre not in the office... https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/office-software/microsoft-teams-will-start-snitching-to-your-boss-when-youre-not-in-the-office-and-this-update-is-coming-in-december
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Working with text-to-3D models and hitting a fundamental issue that's confusing me. Interpolating between different objects in latent space produces geometrically impossible results. Take "wooden chai...
Check out this tech news: [R] Continuous latent interpolation breaks geometric constraints in 3D generation... https://reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/1oe6ywk/r_continuous_latent_interpolation_breaks/
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It's easy to get into the weeds on a hobby, especially if you're into PC gaming and dreaming of the highest levels of graphical performance. But how much is too much for hardware? Spending top dollar ...
Check out this tech news: What does nearly $6,000 of gaming laptop get you?... https://www.theverge.com/tech/806052/msi-titan-18-ai-rtx-5090-gaming-laptop-review
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It took me a while to get into Ball x Pit. The new roguelike blends elements from games like Breakout, Vampire Survivors, and even city builders, creating a complex mix of ideas. But as is the case wi...
Check out this tech news: Ball x Pit is a deep, delightful rabbit hole... https://www.theverge.com/games/805022/ball-x-pit-review-pc-nintendo-switch-ps5-xbox-series-x-s
Check out this tech news: Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Werenβt Even βReal Workβ to Start With... https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/sam-altman-says-jobs-gets-143000252.html
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