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Amazon Stock Drops After AI Spending Plans Unveiled

Company plans to pour $200B into capital investments including AI infrastructure

(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...

Alphabet Doubles Down on AI Spending

Google's parent company plans record AI infrastructure spending amid surging Gemini adoption

(Newser) - Google's parent company announced some very ambitious plans for spending on AI infrastructure Wednesday, but investors weren't exactly enthusiastic. Alphabet said it could pour as much as $185 billion into capital projects this year—largely AI chips and infrastructure—roughly double last year's tab and far above...

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:...

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...

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,...

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"...

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, "...

Sweden Boots No. 1 Song From Official Music Charts
Sweden Boots No. 1 Song
From Official Music Charts
in case you missed it
Jan 24, 2026 5:50 AM CST

Sweden Boots No. 1 Song From Official Music Charts

Music body blocks 'Jag Vet, Du Ar Inte Min' because it's generated by artificial intelligence

(Newser) - Sweden's biggest song of the year so far just got kicked off the Nordic nation's charts—mainly because the "singer" isn't human. The BBC reports that "Jag Vet, Du Ar Inte Min" ("I Know, You're Not Mine") by Jacub has racked up...

White House Posts Altered Arrest Photo of Minn. Protester

Manipulated image of civil rights attorney, likely tweaked using AI, erodes public trust, critics say

(Newser) - A White House social media post is drawing scrutiny after it used a digitally altered arrest photo of a Minnesota protester to make it appear she was crying. The original image, shared on X by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, shows civil rights attorney Nekima Levy Armstrong with a neutral...

Sundance Bids Farewell to Park City, Preps for Boulder
In Utah, a Bittersweet
'Culmination' for Sundance
THE RUNDOWN
Jan 22, 2026 11:48 AM CST

In Utah, a Bittersweet 'Culmination' for Sundance

Robert Redford's famous film fest celebrates its last year in Park City, before moving to Boulder

(Newser) - Sundance is getting ready for one last curtain call in the Utah ski town it outgrew years ago. The independent film festival that Robert Redford launched in the 1980s opens Thursday in Park City for the final time before moving to Boulder, Colorado, next year, reports NBC News . The shift...

Salesforce Chief Blasts AI 'Suicide Coaches'

Marc Benioff says unregulated AI is proving to be as harmful as social media

(Newser) - Salesforce chief Marc Benioff is warning that artificial intelligence has crossed a "pretty horrific" line—and that lawmakers are lagging far behind. Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Benioff said some AI systems have effectively turned into "suicide coaches," citing cases in which the technology...

YouTube Outlines Its 2026 Priorities

CEO Neal Mohan shares his annual letter

(Newser) - YouTube has laid out its vision for the coming year, and it involves putting the reins on "AI slop." In his annual letter , CEO Neal Mohan says cutting down on low-grade AI-generated videos and spotting deepfakes will be top priorities for the Google-owned platform in 2026. "It'...

Trump's AI Voice Makes Its Debut in an Ad

The ad for Fannie Mae uses president's bot-generated voice—with his permission

(Newser) - What sounds like President Trump narrating a new Fannie Mae ad actually is an AI-cloned voice reading text, according to a disclaimer in the video. The voice in the ad, created with permission from the Trump administration, promises an "all new Fannie Mae" and calls the institution the "...

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