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Ask a chatbot a question and you’ll get an answer. But the answer you get depends less on the facts and more on how you phrase the request — your tone, your confidence, even your emotional state. The AI isn’t just reading your words. It’s reading you. And it’s adjusting its output to keep you

For years, cropping a photo in Google Photos has been an exercise in quiet frustration. The tool worked, technically. But it forced users through an unintuitive sequence of taps and gestures that felt out of step with the polish Google applies to its flagship products. Now, according to a teardown of the latest app update,

OPEC’s crude oil production dropped sharply in May, and the reasons stretch far beyond the cartel’s usual internal negotiations over output quotas. A convergence of U.S. military strikes on Iranian infrastructure, tightening American sanctions on Tehran’s oil exports, and an aggressive push by Saudi Arabia to discipline overproducing members has created one of the most

Google is making its biggest bet yet on the idea that artificial intelligence should be personal. Not personal in the vague, marketing-copy sense of the word. Personal as in: it remembers your dietary restrictions, knows your kid’s school schedule, reads your email, and uses all of that to anticipate what you need before you ask.

The gas turbines run around the clock. Dozens of them, arrayed across a sprawling facility in southwest Memphis, burning natural gas to feed one of the most power-hungry artificial intelligence data centers in the country. The noise carries. So does the exhaust. For residents of the predominantly Black neighborhoods surrounding Elon Musk’s xAI data center

Oil is flirting with triple digits again, and the ripple effects are already spreading from trading floors in New York and London to fuel pumps across the American heartland. After months of relative calm in energy markets, a confluence of tightening supply, geopolitical friction, and resurgent demand has pushed crude prices toward levels not seen

Anthropic has begun restructuring how it charges its biggest enterprise customers, moving away from flat-rate subscription models toward pricing that more directly reflects actual AI usage. The shift, first reported by The Information, signals a broader reckoning across the artificial intelligence industry: the economics of running massive language models are becoming untenable under the old

Max Hodak wants to put living cells inside your skull. Not as a metaphor. Not as a far-off research concept. As an actual medical device, implanted in an actual human being, which happened for the first time last month at Yale New Haven Hospital. Science Corp, the neurotechnology company Hodak co-founded after departing Neuralink in

Blake Chandlee spent nearly a decade building TikTok’s advertising machine in the Americas. Now he’s taking what he learned to the competition. Google has hired Chandlee, TikTok’s former president of global business solutions for the Americas, to lead advertising efforts at YouTube and beyond, according to a report from Business Insider. The move is one

Americans got used to cheaper fill-ups. That era may be ending faster than anyone expected. A confluence of tightening global oil supply, geopolitical friction, and resurgent demand is pushing forecasters toward an uncomfortable prediction: gasoline prices could surge past $5 per gallon in parts of the United States well before the end of 2026. Not