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LG Electronics announced it will allow users to remove the Microsoft Copilot AI assistant shortcut from their televisions after complaints surfaced on social media. The issue arose when a recent webOS update added the icon to TV home screens without a deletion option.
The controversy gained traction through a Reddit post on the r/mildlyinfuriating forum, which amassed over 36,000 upvotes. TV...
Researchers at Oxford University and Tokyo University of Science published separate studies on December 17 detailing advances in sodium-ion battery charging speeds and solid electrolytes that maintain conductivity.
Scientists at Tokyo University of Science showed that sodium-ion batteries using hard-carbon electrodes charge faster than conventional lithium-ion batteries. Professor Shinichi Komaba...
Stockholm-based AI coding startup Lovable raised $330 million in Series B funding at a $6.6 billion valuation. The round, announced Thursday, was co-led by CapitalG and Menlo Ventures, with participation from Nvidia’s NVentures, Salesforce Ventures, Databricks Ventures, and Khosla Ventures.
Lovable was founded in 2023 by Anton Osika and Fabian Hedin. The company launched its AI-coding platform in...
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed separate lawsuits on Tuesday against Sony, Samsung, LG, Hisense, and TCL, accusing their televisions of secretly recording what consumers watch in their own homes through Automatic Content Recognition technology to collect data for targeted advertising.
The lawsuits describe the televisions as part of a mass surveillance system that employs Automatic...
OpenAI is seeking up to $100 billion in new funding that could value the company at $830 billion, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The artificial intelligence startup aims to complete this round by the end of the first quarter at the earliest.
The fundraising represents one of the most ambitious efforts in tech history. Final terms remain subject to change, and investor...
LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky declared five-year career plans outdated during a recent episode of the “No One Knows What They’re Doing” podcast, attributing this to rapid changes in technology and the labor market driven by AI and other factors.
Ryan Roslansky, who has served as LinkedIn’s chief executive since 2020, directly addressed the traditional advice of mapping out a five-year career...
Samsung denied rumors of exiting the consumer SATA SSD market following Micron’s withdrawal of its Crucial brand, amid global memory supply chain pressures from AI companies and cloud providers purchasing large hardware volumes.
The company issued a direct statement refuting reports of plans to end consumer SATA SSD production. A spokesperson stated that the rumors are false and Samsung intends...
Meta Platforms is developing an artificial intelligence model code-named Mango for generating images and videos to accelerate its push into multimodal AI capabilities, according to sources who spoke with The Wall Street Journal.
Alexandr Wang, Meta’s chief AI officer, and Chris Cox, the company’s chief product officer, discussed the forthcoming model during an internal question-and-answer session...