"Consciousness is under siege," says author Michael Pollan. His new book, A World Appears, explores consciousness on both a personal and technological level.

Meta is reportedly exploring facial recognition features for its smart glasses, reopening a long-running privacy debate just as competition in wearable AI heats up.

In the depths of Donald Trump’s interregnum, his eldest two sons huddled in a Mar-a-Lago conference room with boyhood pal Zach Witkoff to conjure up a new money machine. Two other would-be ...

Less than a week after the launch of Google’s Project Genie, Roblox is sharing some of its ideas about AI world models. Less than a week after the launch of Google’s Project Genie, Roblox is sharing ...

What if you could create entire virtual worlds in just seconds, shaping every detail to match your imagination? In this walkthrough, the AI Grid team shows how Project Genie, an AI-powered platform ...

DeepMind, Google’s AI research lab, announced Genie 3 last August, showing off an AI system capable of generating interactive virtual environments in real-time. Now, Google has released an ...

Google DeepMind is opening up access to Project Genie, its AI tool for creating interactive game worlds from text prompts or images. Starting Thursday, Google AI Ultra subscribers in the U.S. can play ...

Google Meet has become a new target for spam calls, with scammers exploiting the platform similar to previous Google Docs spam tactics. PCWorld recommends enabling the “Only Contacts Can Call Me” ...

Calling it the highest performance chip of any custom cloud accelerator, the company says Maia is optimized for AI inference on multiple models. Signaling that the future of AI may not just be how ...

Steven Dietz. We want to believe that serendipity brings us together, but is that just a myth? Mining the comedy of missed connections, This Random World asks the serious question of how often we ...

What began as a routine vacation stop near Disney World ended in sudden violence, leaving three tourists dead and raising fresh questions about how a man with a documented history of violent behavior ...

Py don’t believe it. A stunned woman woke up to find an 8-foot python on her chest after it slithered through the bedroom window of her home in Australia. Rachel Bloor thought her pet dog had curled ...