Ten years ago, June Diane Raphael — a lifelong brunette — was struggling with auditions. She was constantly losing roles in the final round, often to her own friends. Eventually, she hit her breaking point and decided to do something drastic: “I was like, well fuck, I’ll just dye my hair blonde and see if that’s…
When Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 landed on the moon in March 2025, the lander downlinked nearly 120 gigabytes of raw data back to Earth — imagery and video captured by onboard cameras that scientists are still processing today. The company’s next lunar mission, Blue Ghost Mission 2 — targeted for launch in late…
As generative media becomes more advanced and accessible, it’s helpful to know where content comes from, and whether it’s been altered. Today, we’re expanding our content transparency and verification tools in Search, Gemini, Chrome, Pixel and Cloud, and deepening our partnership with the broader industry. Scaling our technology Three years ago, we introduced SynthID, our…
Anthropic accused Alibaba of “brazenly” racing to make a copycat Claude, seemingly unfazed by Trump’s threats to crack down on foreign efforts to copy US frontier models despite depending on US investors. “Alibaba is listed on the New York Stock Exchange, maintains business operations in the United States, and is accountable to US investors and…
Google wants to do your shopping for you. At I/O 2026 in May, Google announced a feature that’s hard not to like and not to worry about. VP of Ads and Commerce Vidhya Srinivasan called it the “foundation of agentic commerce.” The idea is that you drop items into Google’s Universal Cart as you surf…
As someone who covers AI tools every single day, I’m at a funny point where I can rule out AI subscriptions as a business expense. However, if you’ve been keeping up with subscriptions and usage limits, you’re likely well aware that the $20 tier that once got you practically unlimited usage no longer cuts it….
Not everyone is buying Elon Musk’s vision for orbital data centers. Masayoshi Son, the founder and CEO of Softbank, argued at a recent shareholder meeting that building data centers in space won’t do much to cut costs and will take too long when “in the battle for AI, the next few years will be far…
A “major studio” behind an animated television series is requiring child actors to surrender their voices to use by generative AI in their contracts, according to a group of agents who specialize in working with minors. The U.K.-based Agents of Young Performers Association made the allegations in an open letter to the industry published on…
Hot tubs sit at about 38 to 40 degrees Celsius, warm enough that most people can only soak for about 15 minutes. NVIDIA’s newest AI servers can run their cooling liquid even hotter — up to 45 degrees Celsius, or 113 degrees Fahrenheit. That higher temperature limit is precisely what makes them more energy efficient….
