Petlibro founder and CEO York Wu provided more information about an outage that left users unable to control their smart pet feeders through the companion app and, in some reported cases, left them with hungry pets. Petlibro, a company owned by Shenzhen, China-headquartered firm Shenzhen Libro Technology Co., first acknowledged the outage on Tuesday at […]

Innovation is a concept that has become mythologized in the modern era: what it is, how to manage it, how to teach it, and how to get it to work for us. Despite these explorations, it remains fundamentally misunderstood, writes Eugene Fitzgerald, the Merton C. Flemings SMA Professor in MIT’s Department of Materials Science and

The Supreme Court today rejected Verizon’s attempt to get a $47 million refund from the Federal Communications Commission. In a list of orders issued by the court, Verizon’s petition was denied without explanation. The denial apparently ends any possibility of Verizon asking a lower court to review the fine and order the FCC to issue

The debate over whether we are in an artificial intelligence bubble took a new turn this week. Despite the ballooning AI spending, Dave Vellante (pictured, right), chief analyst for theCUBE Research, contends that any bursting point may be far off. Now that Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Jensen Huang, has committed $500 billion to establish independent

For the past year or so, booksellers have suspected that AI firms are buying up huge lots of rare books, then destroying them after scanning them to train AI. But this was hard to prove until now, as 404 Media reports that an Airtag hidden in a rare book shows that at least one tech

Amazon has been caught scanning and destroying a large shipment of rare books so it can train its AI models. In an investigation by 404 Media, a bookseller suspected that an order they received for 1,000 books on Biblio, a marketplace where buyers can remain anonymous, was for an AI company. So to get to

Open-weight AI does not need to beat frontier models to test the growth and margin assumptions behind OpenAI and Anthropic’s soaring valuations. The post Can Open-Weight AI Pressure OpenAI and Anthropic Valuations? appeared first on TechRepublic.

Google Meet can use Gemini to capture in-person conversations and turn them into a Google Doc with summaries and action items. The post How to Take Notes for In-Person Meetings With Google Meet appeared first on TechRepublic.

Google now lets Gemini users disable visible AI watermarks while keeping invisible SynthID markers and C2PA credentials embedded for transparency. The post Google Makes Visible Gemini Watermarks Optional for AI Images, Videos and Music appeared first on TechRepublic.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei argues that open-weight AI alone cannot decentralize power while advanced chips and compute remain concentrated. The post Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Says Open-Weight AI Won’t Decentralize Power appeared first on TechRepublic.