UPDATE: Sep. 17, 2024, 2:55 p.m. EDT This story has been updated with news about competing Prime Day sales from Best Buy and Target. With the air starting to cool and the leaves starting to turn color, the signs are here: it’s time for Amazon’s October Prime Day. Officially called …

After a year and a half of Copilot, the generative AI tool is getting to a genuinely useful place. That literal and figurative place is in Microsoft Excel. At the Microsoft 365 Copilot livestream on Monday, CEO Satya Nadella announced Copilot features for the OG spreadsheet program and other 365 …

Apple Intelligence is now coming to the iPhone 16 series — and it’s free. There was some debate about whether Apple’s new suite of AI tools would cost a subscription fee. But VP of Software Craig Federighi confirmed at the Apple event on Monday, that it doesn’t cost a thing …

ESPN’s AI-generated recap had one job for U.S. soccer legend Alex Morgan’s final professional match. Instead of describing the 15th minute of the game, when Morgan poignantly removed her cleats and walked off the field while tearfully waving to the packed crowd as they chanted her name, the ESPN AI-powered …

Apple’s “Glowtime” event on Monday gave us the iPhone 16 series with built-in Apple Intelligence features. But the iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Plus, iPhone 16 Pro, and iPhone 16 Pro Max aren’t the only Apple devices to get this new AI ability. Apple Intelligence, which include AI-powered writing tools, photo-editing …

No, “GPT Next” is not OpenAI’s next big thing. Earlier this week, Tadao Nagasaki, the lead executive for OpenAI’s Japanese operations, shared a presentation at Japan’s KDDI Summit that seemed to imply a new model call “GPT Next” was imminent. But an OpenAI spokesperson has confirmed to Mashable that the …

Uber has been hit with a monster fine in the EU for failing to safeguard the transfer of driver data. On Monday, the Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA) announced that it is fining Uber 290 million euros, or $325 million USD, for violating the EU’s sweeping General Data Protection Regulation …

First, the bad news: it’s really hard to detect AI-generated images. The telltale signs that used to be giveaways — warped hands and jumbled text — are increasingly rare as AI models improve at a dizzying pace. It’s no longer obvious what images are created using popular tools like Midjourney, …

OpenAI has expressed its support for a California bill requiring AI-generated content to be labeled as such. According to Reuters, OpenAI sent a letter of support to California State Assembly member Buffy Wicks, who authored the bill, titled the California Provenance, Authenticity and Watermarking Standards Act (AB 3211). The legislation …