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Google Maps introduces Ask Maps and Personal Intelligence layers to facilitate food orders, hotel searches, and event discovery, moving closer to a transactional assistant capabilities while maintaining user control over final steps. Google Maps is moving further towards an assistant-like…
Meta releases Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter open-weight AI model designed for local and offline use, signalling a strategic pivot in AI deployment and competitive positioning against rivals like OpenAI and Chinese competitors. Meta has not, for now, released the heavyweight…
While AI accelerates travel planning, blending machine-speed with human judgement is key to crafting truly meaningful travel experiences, experts say. AI has made travel planning faster, but speed alone does not make a trip better. The most useful systems now…
Anthropic’s latest Claude models will embed machine-readable provenance data to meet the EU’s new transparency regulations, signalling a significant step towards combating AI misuse and boosting content accountability. Anthropic has said its latest Claude models will begin attaching machine-readable provenance…
The effectiveness of AI content detection remains unreliable amid inconsistent results and growing sophistication in machine-generated prose, prompting calls for a shift towards manual content assessment over automated scores. Artificial intelligence has become a routine part of content production, but…
Google’s approach to artificial intelligence emphasises deploying lighter, faster models for real-world use, while internal leadership changes raise questions over the company’s position in the AI race. Google’s artificial intelligence strategy appears to be built around a familiar pattern: it…
A year after leaving xAI, Igor Babuschkin launches River AI, advocating for personalised, user-controlled AI models and challenging the centralised dominance of major corporations in artificial intelligence. A year after leaving xAI, Igor Babuschkin has returned to the centre of…
Alibaba’s Fliggy launches a upgraded AI assistant built on Alibaba’s Qwen model, enabling multi-step travel management and proactive support, boosting usability and speed. Fliggy, the Alibaba-owned online travel platform, has introduced an upgraded AI assistant that it says can do…
A new all-in-one platform from win beatz seeks to simplify music creation by combining recording, editing, mixing and mastering, focusing on speed, flexibility, and creative control amid a landscape of evolving tools and AI integration. Digital music production has become…
AI-assisted coding has transitioned from experimental novelty to essential infrastructure, expanding usage beyond professional programmers and prompting shifts in industry roles and deployment practices. Vibe coding has moved from novelty to routine. What was once treated as a temporary fad…
As the Shopify ecosystem expands, more merchants are turning to custom development to achieve unique branding, faster performance, and seamless integration, challenging the dominance of pre-built themes. Shopify sits at the centre of a large and still-expanding e-commerce ecosystem, and…
Apple is working on a new photo-authentication feature for iOS 27 that aims to verify whether an image was captured on an iPhone, signalling a shift towards more robust image provenance tools amid industry efforts to combat AI-generated deepfakes. Apple…
