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Hillman highlights Teradata’s interoperability with AWS, Python-in-SQL, minimal data movement, open table formats, feature ...

NEW YORK — What sounds like President Donald Trump narrating a new Fannie Mae ad actually is an AI-cloned voice reading text, according to a disclaimer in the video. The voice in the ad, created with ...

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Hyundai Motor Group plans to deploy Atlas humanoid robots at its U.S. factory starting in 2028 to automate high-risk and repetitive tasks as part of its physical AI strategy, according to CNBC. Trump ...

Making AI companions and assistants feel more real, more physically present, has become one of the defining themes of CES this year. Razer is leaning into the moment by showcasing a more tangible ...

(TNS) — California wants to use ChatGPT to make state employees’ daily work easier and more efficient. That’s the goal of Poppy, a new “digital assistant” powered by ChatGPT and other publicly ...

Dealing with a loved one’s belongings after their death is never easy. But as Alaska’s state courts have discovered, an inaccurate or misleading artificial intelligence chatbot can easily make matters ...

OpenAI, the company that developed the models and products associated with ChatGPT, plans to announce a new audio language model in the first quarter of 2026, and that model will be an intentional ...

I realized just how useful Mercedes-Benz's new in-car AI assistant can be when I was driving a different car. After testing the impressive new 2026 Mercedes CLA-Class in San Francisco, I flew back to ...

Waymo appears to be testing adding Google’s Gemini AI chatbot to its robotaxis in an effort to integrate an AI assistant that would accompany riders and answer their queries, according to findings by ...

Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant has been around for over a decade now. But over the past few years, it’s felt like Amazon was neglecting its digital assistant. In my own home, I found it buggier and ...