Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky said the company wants to increase its use of large language models for customer discovery, support and engineering.

Can AI translate meows, barks, and birdsong into English? It may be able to. Last year, Chinese company Baidu applied for a patent for a new AI-based technology that proposes to convert animal sounds ...

Several prominent Bay Area tech CEOs spent the first year of President Donald Trump’s second term buddying up with the administration. But the violence from Immigration and Customs Enforcement ...

After a decade of false starts across the industry, Nex Computer revisits the idea of replacing your laptop with a smartphone. By combining Android, Linux, and Windows in one device, the NexPhone may ...

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LANSING, Mich. — A priority laid out in Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's 2025 State of the State address is one step closer to becoming law, as the Michigan House passed a ban on cell phones in classrooms ...

The top Chinese smartphones are innovation-packed spec beasts, but it’s not always a good idea to import from the East. The trouble is that getting your hands on a Chinese import can prove tricky and ...

Virginia Tech women's basketball team will attempt to bounce back from a disheartening loss earlier this week when they take on No. 13 Louisville at 4:00pm on ACC Network. Louisville is undefeated in ...

I only got to see (and not touch) a prototype, and the fold-out gimbal camera wasn’t operational. So it’s strictly TBC what the Robot Phone will actually do, but Honor did tell me this is no concept: ...

A retired lawyer lost the money in a tech support scam, a type of online fraud that is surging. Citibank said it couldn’t recover the funds, which criminals wired from inside his account. David Welles ...

Messaging app Freedom Chat has fixed a pair of security flaws: one that allowed a security researcher to guess registered users’ phone numbers, and another that exposed user-set PINs to others on the ...

For much of the last decade, conversational AI was a polite front door. It answered questions and collected details, then handed the hard parts to people. In 2025, a different pattern is taking hold.