Google Maps releases new AI tools that let you create interactive projects

Google Maps is adding new AI features, including a builder agent and an MCP server — a tool that connects AI assistants to ...
Android Central on MSN

This new API tool helps Gemini tap into your trusted data sources

The Gemini API is adding support for the File Search Tool, a way for developers to build with AI using known data sets for ...
Reuters

US dollar set for modest weekly gain after soft inflation data

NEW YORK, Oct 24 (Reuters) - The U.S. dollar was almost flat on Friday after dipping following fresh inflation data that showed U.S. consumer prices increased less than expected in September, keeping ...
Pew Research Center

What we know about energy use at U.S. data centers amid the AI boom

Artificial intelligence has developed rapidly in recent years, with tech companies investing billions of dollars in data centers to help train and run AI models. The expansion of data centers has ...
Lynnwood Times

Lynnwood Police Department addresses concerns over ALPR camera data use

LYNNWOOD—The Lynnwood Police Department on Friday, October 24, issued a statement to clarify and “address potential misconceptions” of its use of Automated License Plate Reader (ALPR) technology in ...
Biometric Companies

Mexico’s biometric CURP now officially in use despite data security concerns

Mexico’s biometric CURP has become the country’s official personal biometric identification despite lingering concerns from rights advocates about data privacy and security. The national ID went into ...
Ars Technica

Lawsuit: Reddit caught Perplexity “red-handed” stealing data from Google results

In a lawsuit filed on Wednesday, Reddit accused an AI search engine, Perplexity, of conspiring with several companies to illegally scrape Reddit content from Google search results, allegedly dodging ...
SiliconANGLE

Reddit is suing Perplexity and AI data scraping firms for using its data without permission

Reddit Inc. has launched lawsuits against startup Perplexity AI Inc. and three data-scraping service providers for trawling the company’s copyrighted content to be used to train AI models. Reddit ...
The Verge

Reddit sues Perplexity for allegedly ripping its content to feed AI

Reddit is selling your posts to AI companies, and now it’s suing to stop the ones who won’t pay. Reddit is selling your posts to AI companies, and now it’s suing to stop the ones who won’t pay. is a ...
TechSpot

Hackers compile personal data on 22,000 US officials using stolen Salesforce records

What we know so far: A hacking collective responsible for leaking personal data on hundreds of federal officials last week has reportedly amassed private records on tens of thousands more, according ...
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Update - AWS services operating normally

This article was updated at 6:15 p.m. PDT on October 20. Between 11:49 PM PDT on October 19 and 2:24 AM PDT on October 20, AWS experienced increased error rates for ...