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ChatGPT told user to ignore lethal condition, but people keep treating it as a doctor

You’d think that it would be obvious that it’s a terrible idea to ask an AI chatbot for a medical consultation, but hundreds of millions of people do it every week. In one near-death example now the subject of a lawsuit, ChatGPT advised a pastor to ignore symptoms of a pulmonary embolism – a condition […]

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EU fines Google $1 billion for search, app store antitrust violations

The European Commission fined Google €890 million ($1 billion) on Thursday after finding the company had violated the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), which ensures fair online competition. Google was designated a gatekeeper for Google Search in September 2023, with non-compliance investigations opened in March 2024. On Thursday, the Commission said the company favored

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Chrome on Android is about to tame those annoying notification prompts

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. Google has been hard at work improving the user experience of Chrome on Android. The company recently added new features, including a redesigned navigation bar. Now, it’s working on a change that will make pretty much every internet user breathe a sigh of

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A cheaper Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 could help solve phone price hikes (maybe)

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. We’re almost done with major flagship launches for this generation, which means we’re also inching closer to the launch of the next generation of flagship processors. Qualcomm is expected to launch the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro

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Samsung has just given us a preview of the creaseless iPhone Ultra display

One of the reported reasons for Apple taking such a long time to introduce a folding iPhone is that the company was unhappy with the very visible crease and vulnerability of earlier generations of flexible screens. Display partner Samsung finally solved this to Apple’s satisfaction, and the launch of the Korean company’s latest folding smartphone

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Hideo Kojima’s worked out exactly how he wants to die: Kicking the popcorn bucket

Hideo Kojima sure has been thinking about death a lot lately. Though he’s a pretty spritely 62 years old, the Metal Gear and Death Stranding creator has made our pages recently for things like: talking about deciding to make Physint after a brush with death in 2020, making a game where you get old and

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Do we need to worry about burn-in as Macs transition to OLED screens?

Apple devices were long known for having some of the highest-quality LCD screens in the business, and that remains the case for today’s MacBooks. The company upped the ante first through retina displays and then mini-LED backlighting. This is the reason Apple has been in no great hurry to adopt OLED technology. It has, however,

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Experts say exploiting Anthropic’s Fable isn’t how Kimi K3 got so good

White House science advisor Michael Kratsios said that Moonshot, the Chinese company behind the Kimi K3, the largest available open-weight LLM, built its model by copying Anthropic’s Fable LLM while using chips that aren’t cleared for export to China. “Large-scale, covert industrial distillation aimed at stealing proprietary U.S. technology and undermining American research is unacceptable,”

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5 smartwatches you should buy instead of the Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra 2

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. Remember how thick the original Watch Ultra was? The Watch Ultra 2 is much thinner. The Watch Ultra 2 is more durable than its predecessor, features a slightly larger (and significantly brighter) display, a much newer chipset, and a considerably larger battery. Add

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If the Galaxy Z Flip 8 really is Samsung’s last model, the foldable world is in trouble

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. So when I came across the latest rumor, I won’t lie — it completely took the wind out of my sails. The idea that Samsung could end the Flip series after the Galaxy Z Flip 8 is genuinely disappointing, and I really hope

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