Google's Bard Advanced is getting a subscription paywall soon

Google is giving its Bard AI chatbot the premium subscription treatment à la OpenAI’s ChatGPT Plus. SEE ALSO: Google Bard can now watch YouTube videos for you The tech giant announced Tuesday in a Q4 earnings call that it plans to lock the recently announced Bard Advanced behind a subscription model. There were no talks […]

Elon Musk’s X comes out in favor of pro-censorship law

Some of the biggest tech companies are being grilled on Wednesday by the US Senate Judiciary Committee at a hearing titled “Big Tech and the Online Child Sexual Exploitation Crisis.” Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg along with TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew, Snap CEO Evan Spiegel, Discord CEO Jason Citron, and X CEO Linda Yaccarino are all […]

Xbox, Spotify leaders blast Apple for App Store changes. Here’s why.

Fortnite is coming back to iOS for iPhone users in the EU. However, the game’s creator, along with other tech companies and app developers, are blasting Apple for policy changes based on the EU-law that facilitated Fortnite’s return in the first place. Tweet may have been deleted Spotify CEO Daniel Elk called Apple’s announced App […]

Arc Search browser app uses AI to create custom responses to search questions

Most people probably think too much about the mobile browser they use. But Arc Search is trying to change that. Earlier this week, The Browsing Company, the company behind the Arc Browser that better organizes your tabs and takes a proactive approach to the browsing user experience, launched an iOS app with a new AI […]

7 songs poised to make a Swift exit from TikTok amid UMG's licensing dispute

Universal Music Group (UMG) is prepared to call “time out on TikTok” if the two companies fail to renegotiate their partnership today. UMG published an open letter citing “appropriate compensation for our artists and songwriters, protecting human artists from the harmful effects of AI, and online safety for TikTok’s users” as the three key issues […]

Get the GoPro Max for $100 off and record your adventures in 6K

SAVE $100.99: The GoPro Max camera is just $399 at Amazon, down from the regular price of $499.99. That’s a 20% discount and the lowest price we’ve seen. Opens in a new window Credit: GoPro GoPro Max $399 at Amazon (save $100.99) Get Deal We’ve never had more access to media from around the globe. […]

New Senate bill would provide path for victims of nonconsensual AI deepfakes

Following the viral spread of pornographic AI images of singer Taylor Swift, government leaders are addressing the creation and sharing of sexualized AI-generated deepfakes. On Jan. 30, a bipartisan group of Senators introduced a new bill that would criminalize the act of spreading nonconsensual and sexualized “digital forgeries” created using artificial intelligence. Digital forgeries are […]

Get up to 25% off Garmin smartwatches and upgrade your tech on the go

February is the new January, and it’s not too late to start thinking about goals for the rest of 2024. If sticking to a fitness schedule is on your list for the next 11 months, Amazon has Garmin smartwatches on sale for up to 25% off that’ll help you stay on track. Best Amazon deals […]

ChatGPT now lets you pull other GPTs into the chat

ChatGPT can invite more of its chatbot chums to the party, as users can now directly mention other GPTs to bring them into the conversation. Cool, we guess? Paying ChatGPT subscribers can extend an invitation to third-party generative pre-trained transformers (GPTs) powered by OpenAI by typing the @ symbol to tag them from a list […]