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Amazon Dives 11% After Announcing $200B AI Spend

(Newser) - Amazon sales surged 14% during the fourth quarter, helped by strong holiday spending and a better-than-expected growth in its prominent cloud computing unit. But shares fell 11% in after-hours trading on Thursday as investors appeared to be spooked by the Seattle-based tech company's plans to increase capital spending by...

You'll Soon Be Able to Chat With MLB Avatars
MLB Just Pitched
an AI Surprise
Feb 5, 2026 2:58 PM CST

MLB Just Pitched an AI Surprise

League signs deal with Genies to create avatars of baseball stars in the name of fan engagement

(Newser) - Major League Baseball players have agreed to let a tech company create AI characters of themselves that can chat and interact with fans. Under an agreement announced Thursday between Genies and MLB Players Inc., the business affiliate of the players association, AI avatars of top stars will be created that...

Anthropic Takes Its Fight With OpenAI to the Super Bowl

Commercial promises ad-free chats via Claude chatbot, as OpenAI tests ads on ChatGPT

(Newser) - Anthropic is bringing its AI grudge match to America's biggest screen, and it's gunning straight for ChatGPT's business model. The maker of the Claude chatbot is airing a 30-second spot during Super Bowl LX (with a longer pregame cut), anchoring a new campaign built around one message:...

Pinterest Fires Engineers Over Layoff Tracking Tool

CEO Bill Ready accused them of obstruction, privacy violations

(Newser) - Pinterest employees who tried to map out who was losing their jobs ended up losing theirs. CEO Bill Ready told staff at an all-hands meeting Friday that several engineers were fired after they built an internal tool to tally the company's layoffs, CNBC reports. He drew a line between...

Bill Gates Rejects New Epstein Email Claims

'I don't know what his thinking was there,' he says of draft email written by Epstein

(Newser) - Bill Gates says a new batch of Jeffrey Epstein documents may mention him—but not accurately. In an interview with Australia's 9News , the Microsoft co-founder rejected draft emails Epstein apparently wrote to himself that suggest Gates used Epstein to arrange encounters with women and later contracted an STI that...

Ring Offers New Tool for Owners of Lost Pets

AI-powered 'Search Party' tool now open to all Ring app users, not just those with Ring cameras

(Newser) - Ring is widening the net for its canine-tracking tech, and you no longer need one of its cameras to take part. The Amazon-owned company is rolling out its "Search Party" feature to all Ring app users in the US, expanding a tool that uses artificial intelligence and its vast...

AI-Only Social Network Lets Bots Mingle, Plot

Reddit-like site draws interest and concern

(Newser) - A week-old social network is drawing big attention for a simple rule: no humans allowed in the conversation. Moltbook, launched Wednesday by California technologist Matt Schlicht, is a kind of Facebook or Reddit clone populated entirely by "Moltbots"—autonomous AI agents granted control of a computer to pursue...

Grok Deepfake Probe Just Got More Serious in Paris

Prosecutor's office carries out raid on X.com's offices there amid deepfake, algorithm accusations

(Newser) - French officials are taking a much closer look at X.com. The Paris prosecutor's office said on Tuesday that its cybercrime unit, with assistance from Europol, has raided the offices of Elon Musk's social media platform there as part of a probe launched in January, per CNN . Prosecutors...

Firefox Adds 'Kill Switch' to Turn Off AI Features

New AI controls let users disable all current and future tools

(Newser) - Mozilla is moving ahead with AI in Firefox—but it's also adding a big "off" switch. Starting Feb. 24, the browser will include a new "AI control" setting that lets users shut down all its AI tools, the Verge reports. From that menu, people can toggle specific...

Musk Merges SpaceX, xAI
Musk Merges
2 of His Companies
Feb 2, 2026 6:15 PM CST

Musk Merges 2 of His Companies

SpaceX, xAI folded into 'vertically-integrated innovation engine' ahead of IPO

(Newser) - Elon Musk is rolling two of his biggest bets into one $1.25 trillion moonshot. Musk said Monday he's folding rocket company SpaceX and artificial intelligence startup xAI into a single operation he calls "the most ambitious, vertically-integrated innovation engine on (and off) Earth," tying together rockets,...

AI Breast Screening Shows Promise in Trial
AI-Assisted Mammograms
Show Promise
NEW STUDY
Feb 2, 2026 8:46 AM CST

AI-Assisted Mammograms Show Promise

Research finds artificial intelligence helps to identify more breast cancers at the early stage

(Newser) - A Swedish trial is offering some of the clearest evidence yet that AI might sharpen, not replace, the human eye in breast cancer screening. In what researchers call the largest study of its kind, 100,000 women undergoing routine mammograms between April 2021 and December 2022 were randomly assigned to...

Suicide Pod Creator Thinks AI Should Give the Approval

Proposal is to let artificial intelligence replace psychiatrists in determining mental capacity

(Newser) - The idea of a 3D-printed suicide pod was probably controversial enough, but now its inventor wants to let artificial intelligence decide who gets to use it. Euronews reports that longtime euthanasia advocate Philip Nitschke thinks AI could replace psychiatrists in determining whether someone has the mental capacity to choose assisted...

Meet Sprout, a New Kind of 'Approachable' Robot

Startup company Fauna Robotics says its cute humanoid is inspired by popular sci-fi characters

(Newser) - As a new robot called Sprout walks around a Manhattan office, nodding its rectangular head, lifting its windshield wiper-like "eyebrows" and offering to shake your hand with its grippers, it looks nothing like the sleek and intimidating humanoids built by companies like Tesla. Sprout's charm is the whole...

AI Infiltrates Video Games, and Gamers Aren't Having It

They're aggressively pressuring studios to curb generative tools in new titles

(Newser) - Artificial intelligence may be seeping into every corner of tech, but gamers are proving to be a surprisingly stubborn roadblock. As studios experiment with generative AI for art, characters, and dialogue, some are scrambling to reverse course after fierce backlash from players who say the tech cheapens games and threatens...

Pinterest Announces Layoffs, Shift to 'AI-Focused Roles'

But users are fed up with AI-generated images

(Newser) - Pinterest is shrinking its workforce and office footprint as it leans harder into artificial intelligence. The San Francisco-based social media platform said in an SEC filing Tuesday that it will cut up to 15% of its staff and reduce office space, while shifting money and headcount toward "AI-focused roles"...

Ghost Students Are Stealing Billions in College Aid

Scammers exploit enrollment to hijack grants and loans using stolen identities

(Newser) - A college scam you've probably never heard of is quietly piling up federal losses and personal headaches, ABC News reports. So-called "ghost students" use stolen or fabricated identities to enroll at community colleges, secure federal grants and loans, then vanish—leaving taxpayers on the hook and victims discovering...

Doomsday Clock Now Closer Than Ever to 'Catastrophe'

Group of scientists sets it at 85 seconds before 12, the worst mark ever

(Newser) - The world's most famous metaphor for self-destruction just ticked a few seconds closer to the brink. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on Tuesday set its Doomsday Clock to 85 seconds before midnight, moving it four seconds nearer to symbolic "global catastrophe" and marking the most perilous setting...

AI Boss Lays Out Our Potentially Catastrophic Future

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warns of mass job losses, bioterror risks, authoritarianism

(Newser) - Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is trying to shock the world into paying attention. In a new 38-page essay , he warns AI systems with abilities beyond top human experts could arrive within a few years and, without fast, serious safeguards, "cause civilization-level damage." Amodei, whose company builds some of...

Job Seekers Sue Over AI Company's Screening Tech

Complaint argues hiring scores generated by AI for Eightfold AI should go by credit reporting rules

(Newser) - Algorithms are the new bouncers at the hiring door, and one of them is now being hauled into court. The New York Times reports that a group of job seekers has sued Eightfold AI, a company whose software ranks applicants on a 1-to-5 scale for employers, arguing that its screening...

Teens Can Say Goodbye to AI Characters on Meta

Instagram owner says access will be denied to minors until 'the updated experience is ready'

(Newser) - Meta is halting teens' access to artificial intelligence characters, at least temporarily, the company said in an updated blog post on Friday. Meta Platforms Inc., which own Instagram and WhatsApp, said that starting in the "coming weeks," teens will no longer be able to access AI characters, "...

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