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ChatGPT is already among the internet’s 40 most popular destinations, highlighting the explosive growth of generative artificial intelligence among online users, according to a new report from Cloudflare that ranked the most widely used websites. “Google, Facebook and Instagram remained dominant in our overall rankings, but the year’s defining story was generative AI’s rapid maturation,”…
Roomba maker iRobot filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Sunday and said the robotic vacuum cleaner would sell itself to a Chinese contract manufacturer.Β Shenzhen PICEA Robotics Co., which makes Roombas for Bedford, Massachusetts-based iRobot, will buy the company, according to a news release. iRobot said it doesn’t expect any disruptions to its app,…
Thousands of Spotify users are reporting difficulty accessing the music streaming service, with some customers saying their playlists had disappeared, according to outage tracking site Downdetector. Reports of problems with Spotify spiked on Monday morning, with about 35,000 people telling Downdetector they were experiencing difficulties accessing their music.Β In a social media post at 9:45…
What to know about the $1 billion Disney agreement with OpenAI – CBS News Watch CBS News Disney announced Thursday that it would invest $1 billion in OpenAI and license more than 200 of its animated and illustrated characters to use in Sora’s user-generated content. Jo Ling Kent has more.
Walt Disney Co. is investing $1 billion in OpenAI under a new commercial partnership with the ChatGPT and Sora developer. The three-year licensing agreement will allow users of Sora, OpenAI’s artificial intelligence video tool, to create AI videos using more than 200 characters from Disney, Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars, the entertainment giantΒ announced Thursday.Β Disney…
Time magazine is spotlighting key players in the artificial intelligence revolutionΒ for its 2025 Person of the Year, the magazine announced Thursday. “The architects of AI” are the latest recipients of the designation, which for more than a century has been given out on an annual basis to an influential person, group of people or, occasionally,…
A U.K. couple started with a simple message, asking on Instagram if other parents could ban together to start a smartphone-free childhood. It’s now grown to a global movement, with a chapter in 39 countries. Leigh Kiniry reports.
Suffolk, England – For parents Daisy Greenwell and Joe Ryrie, freedom means looking up at the world around them instead of down at their phones, and they’re determined to pass that sense of non-digital liberty on to their children. Their daughter started asking for a smartphone when she was just eight years old, because her…
With the world’s first social media ban for teenagers under 16 now in effect in Australia, its initial political architect is celebrating a new less-digital era for millions of children β and sharing that the legislation was personally inspired by his wife, for their four children.Β “She read a book called ‘The Anxious Generation,’ by…
Waymo, the ride-hailing service, says it is planning a voluntary software recall to fix a glitch after reports its self-driving cars don’t stop for school buses. The company has already tried to fix the issue, but police in Texas said it didn’t work. Kris Van Cleave reports.
