Verizon bundles Google AI into its wireless plans for an extra $10 Verizon is adding a new option to bundle Google One AI Premium into its wireless myPlan and myHome internet plans, the company announced today. The add-on will be available for an extra $10 per month, or about half of the $19.99 Google charges for the subscription on its own, starting on February 6th. Google One

Quick question with AI for marketing. I have a store i’m launching that’s related to Japanese art. Now i do have some posts already planned for it for the product but for the filler posts i wanted to use some AI to keep the posting going, not low super crappy AI photos but photos that have been edited properly and with nice prompts. Now i see that most of the people here despise AI …

The Beatles’ ‘Now and Then’ Was Made With AI (and That’s Okay) It’s not really what you think.

Any Recommendations for a culling service? (not AI based) Hi friends! I’m looking for a culling service to help narrow down my galleries – I use Aftershoot for the first wave before sending them off for a final cull. Looking for someone who reviews each image instead of relying solely on AI to choose.I’ve worked with a gal (out of state) who charged 5 cents per image and had a 2-3 day turnaround, and s…

The AI Agents Are Coming And blockchain tech is poised to become the fundamental infrastructure for an agentic economy, functioning as an API layer that enables seamless interaction and transactions among AI agents, says Marc Baumann.

AI Shows Why Data Portability Matters AI provides a rationale for personal data portability, in the form of a better product experience rather than ideology alone, says Anna Kazlauskas, the creator of Vana and the CEO of Open Data Labs.

EU kicks off landmark AI law enforcement as first batch of restrictions enter into force On Sunday, the deadline for prohibitions on certain AI systems and staff technology literacy requirements officially lapsed.

Chinese AI app DeepSeek was downloaded by millions. Deleting it might come next Should millions of Americans be downloading Chinese AI app DeepSeek and giving their personal data to it? For reasons of privacy and cybersecurity, maybe not.

OpenAI Unveils New A.I. Agent for Research The tool, called Deep Research, arrives days after OpenAI released another one, which shops for groceries and books restaurant reservations.

Why Is This C.E.O. Bragging About Replacing Humans With A.I.? Most large employers play down the likelihood that bots will take our jobs. Then there’s Klarna, a darling of tech investors.

DeepSeek A.I. Is a Win for China, but a Danger to Party Control DeepSeek’s success embodies China’s ambitions in artificial intelligence. But it could also threaten the grip on power the nation’s leaders hold.

I Was Wrong About AI Girlfriends – including interviews with users of AI companions, creators of such apps and researchers submitted by /u/geeshta

Google’s AI Super Bowl ad is wrong about cheese Google just debuted a series of Super Bowl ads showing how small businesses use Gemini AI across all 50 states, but the cheese lovers out there might notice something a little off about its Wisconsin one. As spotted by @natejhake on X, the ad shows Gemini AI generating text that says Gouda accounts for “50

Nvidia says its new GPUs are the fastest for DeepSeek AI, which kind of misses the point Nvidia is touting the performance of DeepSeek’s open source AI models on its just-launched RTX 50-series GPUs, claiming that they can “run the DeepSeek family of distilled models faster than anything on the PC market.” But this announcement from Nvidia might be somewhat missing the point. This week, Nvidia’s market cap suffered the single bigges…

Elementor Rolls Out WordPress AI Site Planner via @sejournal, @martinibuster Elementor rolls out an intuitive AI site planner that streamlines website design from brief to visual layout The post Elementor Rolls Out WordPress AI Site Planner appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

AI Overviews Data Shows Massive Changes In Search Results via @sejournal, @martinibuster Data shows significant expansion of AI Overviews to answer more complex queries and consolidation in trusted sources cited in its answers The post AI Overviews Data Shows Massive Changes In Search Results appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

This Chrome Extension Hides Google’s AI Junk Strip AI out of Google Search, and block those annoying “Ask Gemini” buttons for good.

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Will AI Transform Teaching and Learning? Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Will AI Transform Teaching and Learning? Recently, I was invited to be part of a five member panel at Google to discuss the impact that AI will have on teaching and learning in schools. My fellow panelists were drawn from the technology sector. As a historian of schooling and vet…

AI is ‘an energy hog,’ but DeepSeek could change that DeepSeek startled everyone last month with the claim that its AI model uses roughly one-tenth the amount of computing power as Meta’s Llama 3.1 model, upending an entire worldview of how much energy and resources it’ll take to develop artificial intelligence.  Taken at face value, that claim could have tremendous implications for the environm…

How DeepSeek crashed the AI party The DeepSeek story contains multitudes. It’s a story about the stock market, whether there’s an AI bubble, and how important Nvidia has become to so many people’s financial future. It’s also a story about China, export controls, and American AI dominance. And then, somewhere in there, there’s a story about technology: about how a start…