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First step: Hang up if a caller demands money or personal details.
First step: Hang up right away if a caller says you missed jury duty.
First step: Do not tap any link, button or phone number in the message.
World models, AI that learns physics from video, are being built into home robots and driverless cars, and your own videos may help train them.
Read more: AI that learns how the physical world works is coming to robots and carsA browser that Android Authority calls the best on Android is not in the Play Store, but it can still be installed with a few extra steps.
Read more: A top Android browser is not in the Play Store, but you can still install itA new Alibaba-led test of real coding requests found the best AI agent fully finished just 26.4 percent of tasks, so human review still matters.
Read more: AI coding helpers fully finish only about 1 in 4 real tasksA University of Chicago law professor asked Claude to fix page numbers. It deleted his syllabus and a year of notes instead. Dropbox saved him, not the AI.
Read more: An AI assistant deleted a law professor's year of lecture notesA Tom's Guide poll found only 5 of 200 readers shop for AI in earbuds and headphones. Sound quality won easily, so check AI claims before you pay extra.
Read more: Few shoppers want AI in headphones, but brands keep adding itAnthropic says it will not build AI image or video tools and will put its computing power into code, data and tasks that run on their own.
Read more: Claude's maker skips AI video tools to focus on business workBose's new 23-inch TV Speaker costs $299 and, in one reviewer's tests, made dialogue clearer than the pricier Sonos Beam 2.
Read more: Bose's small $299 soundbar makes dialogue clearer than pricier rivalsOtto, a new customer-tracking app for field sales teams, lets reps speak their notes instead of typing them. Price and launch details are not yet known.
Read more: Otto launches a sales app you talk to instead of typingA former Nvidia product manager has started Udu Technologies to let African startups and institutions rent AI computing power instead of buying it.
Read more: Ex-Nvidia engineer starts company to bring AI computing power to AfricaMajor environmental groups now use AI to study climate data and track fires, while warning that the data centers behind AI carry their own environmental cost.
Read more: Environmental groups use AI to fight climate change, despite its energy costReports say the Trump administration is weighing underwater datacenters off Maine and Alaska, and Lake Erie groups want a plan before anyone proposes one nearby.
Read more: Underwater datacenters may be next, and Lake Erie groups are worriedGenRobot AI raised $100 million to record how people work, so robot makers can use those recordings to teach machines home, factory and warehouse tasks.
Read more: Beijing startup raises $100 million to teach robots by watching peopleA leaker says the iPhone 20 could fold the Action Button into Camera Control, leaving one button for both jobs. It is an early, unverified rumor.
Read more: Next year's iPhone may merge its two extra buttons into oneThe Attala County Sheriff's Office in Mississippi says scam calls are reaching residents, and a call that sounds official may not be.
Read more: Mississippi sheriff warns residents about scam phone callsVoters in Upper Sandusky, Ohio, banned large data centers after a $900 million plan. Here is how a town of 6,600 did it, and what other places can learn.
Read more: Small Ohio town votes to ban a $900 million AI data centerRecruiters say AI now handles much of the screening work, so employers may start asking what a fee of a share of a new hire's salary actually pays for.
Read more: AI is speeding up hiring and putting recruiter fees under pressureScammers are posing as Texas sheriff's officers and claiming you missed jury duty. Caller ID can show a real police number even when the call is fake.
Read more: Fake jury duty calls spoof a real Texas sheriff's phone numberFake PayPal emails and texts, some posing as a security report, try to get you to tap a link and type your login. Checking your account directly avoids the trap.
Read more: Got a fake PayPal message? Skip its link and check your account yourselfAn engineer at Anthropic, maker of the Claude AI assistant, warns that leaning on AI to write code can lead people to stop thinking for themselves.
Read more: Anthropic engineer warns AI coding can lead people to stop thinkingIn a hand-counted 4,500-step walk, the $180 Fitbit Edge was off by 8 steps and the $800 Apple Watch Ultra 4 by 51. Both did the job well.
Read more: A $180 Fitbit counted steps more closely than an $800 Apple WatchPolice in Bhubaneswar say scammers are pasting fake QR stickers on shop counters and sending fake loan, fine and gas messages to empty bank accounts.
Read more: Fake QR stickers and loan offers are draining bank accountsEA has re-released 25 classic PC games at a discount until November 19, and Bethesda has finally given The Elder Scrolls VI a subtitle: Sentinel.
Read more: EA brings 25 classic PC games back, and Elder Scrolls VI gets a nameA user says Anthropic's Claude Code put his email in web requests, then scam messages arrived. The link is unproven, but it shows what AI tools can share.
Read more: User says Claude Code sent his email address to websitesOpenAI released a ChatGPT for analysts and bankers that shows where each number came from, a feature that could matter well beyond finance.
Read more: OpenAI launches a ChatGPT built for Wall Street analysts
