Dominic Preston / The Verge : Honor unveils its flagships Magic8, with a 7,000mAh battery, and Magic8 Pro, with 7,200mAh, both featuring an AI button, launching in China for ~$630 and ~$800 — The Magic 8 Pro fits in a 7,200mAh battery, though the European version will be smaller.
Last May, Spotify introduced an interactive version of its AI-powered DJ, allowing users to make real-time music requests. However, the feature was voice-only. Now, the company is expanding support to typed requests, among other welcome improvements. Here are the details. more…
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Following months of supply chain adjustments and diversification amid US–China trade tensions, Apple CEO Tim Cook reassured Beijing that the company remains committed to investing in the region. Here are the details. more…
In an embarrassing error, PayPal blockchain partner Paxos accidentally minted 300 trillion of the PYUSD token today. PayPal's stablecoin, which it debuted in 2023 , is supposed to be redeemable at a 1:1 rate for US dollars. $300 trillion is more than double the entire world's current GDP of $117 trillion. In short, that's a really bad mistake from Paxos. At least the action did appear to be a mistake. Paxos acknowledged the issue in a post on X, assuring clients that their funds are secure and stating that it burned the excess reserves of stablecoins. The company claimed that "this was an internal technical error.” Maybe so, but internal technical errors can still wreak havoc pretty quickly when it comes to finance, especially in the fantasy worlds of blockchain and crypto. Thanks to the appropriately named Web3 is Going Just Great for picking up on this story. This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/cybersecurity/paypals-blockchain-partner-accidentally-minted-300-trillion-in-stablecoins-224017538.html?src=rss
Dominic Preston / The Verge : Honor teases the “Robot Phone”, with an AI-enabled, gimbal-mounted camera that unfolds from the phone's rear and can capture photos and video in any direction — But we'll have to wait until next year to find out more. … Honor has announced what it's calling the …
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Using AI, UChicago Medicine is implementing a system that will route those routine moments to AI agents in the first line of response, keeping their human counterparts where more handholding is needed.
Nate Raymond / Reuters : A US judge sentences Matthew Lane, a 20-year-old Massachusetts man, to four years in prison after he pled guilty to hacking two companies, including PowerSchool — A Massachusetts man who breached the network of education software provider PowerSchool to steal data belonging to millions …
Google has released a new update to its Veo AI video generation model that should make it do a better job of sticking to prompts and converting images into videos. Veo 3.1 is available to try today through Google's Gemini API and is now also powering the company's Flow video editor . Veo 3.1 builds on the new capabilities Google introduced with launch of Veo 3 at Google I/O 2025 . The new model offers better "prompt adherence," according to Google, and should have an easier time creating videos based on the image "ingredients" you upload alongside your written prompt. Veo 3.1 also makes it possible to convert images to video and generate audio at the same time, a capability that wasn't available with Veo 3. In Flow, Veo 3.1 supports at least a new feature that gives you finer control over the videos you generate. With what Google calls "Frame to Video," Flow lets you upload a first and last frame, and then generates the video in-between. Adobe Firefly, which is powered by Veo 3, offers a similar feature , but Flow will be able to pull it off and create audio at the same time. Those added audio skills will also apply to the video editor's ability to extend clips and insert objects into existing footage, too. Based on the samples Google's shared, videos generated with Veo 3.1 still have an uncanny quality that seems to vary greatly depending on the prompt and subject. Even if it's missing some of the realism of OpenAI's Sora 2 , though, the company's decision to try and make Veo more useful to people who actually work with video rather than a source of social media spam is a welcome move. This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/ai/googles-veo-31-is-better-at-generating-videos-from-images-220829129.html?src=rss
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