Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Virtual assistants will soon be as commonplace as smartphones -- in many parts of the world, they already are. Most smartphones have a built-in ...

OpenAI reportedly raised $110 billion at a $730 billion valuation, backing massive AI infrastructure expansion as profitability questions loom.

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Alexa+ is now available to everyone in the US, and if you are an Amazon Prime member, you get it at no extra cost. Amazon has been testing Alexa+ through an early access program over the past year.

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Claude Opus 4.6 AI agents built a Rust-based C compiler in two weeks The compiler passed 99 percent of GCC torture tests and compiled the game Doom Anthropic's AI can handle complex software ...

It’s inspiring to see how they use the opportunities in the Cambridge program. We’re equally grateful to the educators, ...

At the political free-fire zone that is the University of Virginia, academics isn’t the only target over which the right and left are dueling.