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Meta on Wednesday unveiled its new V-JEPA 2 AI model, a “world model” that is designed to help AI agents understand the world around them. V-JEPA 2 is an extension of the V-JEPA model that Meta released last year, which was trained on over 1 million hours of video. This training data is supposed to help robots or other AI agents operate in the physical world, understanding and predicting how concepts like gravity will impact what happens next in a sequence. These are the kinds of common sense connections that small children and animals make as their brains develop —…

In a handful of interviews following Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC 25), Apple executives denied that last year’s demonstrations of a personalized, AI-powered Siri were vaporware, despite having yet to launch. When asked by The Wall Street Journal why Apple, with all its engineers and cash, couldn’t make the technology work well enough to ship, the company didn’t admit to being behind in the AI race. Instead, Apple senior vice president of software engineering Craig Federighi stressed that AI was a new technology, and something Apple sees more as a “long-term transformational wave” that will impact the industry and society…

NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch says she doesn’t need help from the National Guard after cops arrested 86 anti-ICE activists in lower Manhattan — with more protests expected this week. “We certainly got this,” Tisch said Wednesday morning on Fox 5’s “Good Day New York.” “I spent the weekend reaching out to our federal partners with a very clear message that the NYPD will have this under control. We have plans in place, and if things escalate we can bring in cops from all over the city to assist.” “We have an army of 34,000 officers,” she added. “We’re prepared for…

Summary Star Wars and Fortnite’s collaboration brings iconic characters like Darth Vader and Ahsoka Tano to the game, adding depth and variety. Players can enjoy skins of characters from the Disney Plus, Prequel, Original, and Sequel trilogies, each with unique abilities and styles. Exclusive limited edition skins like The Mandalorian and Ahsoka Tano offer fans a chance to unlock their favorite characters for a limited time. Star Wars and Fortnite work perfectly together, and the famed Battle Royale has featured many iconic characters from the galaxy far, far away over the years. Fortnite x Star Wars brings bounty hunters, Jedi,…

Pinterest is experimenting with “auto-collages,” an AI feature that allows advertisers to quickly turn their product catalogs into shoppable collages, the company announced this week. The new feature is designed to make it easier for advertisers to reach customers while saving time and creative resources, Pinterest says. The company notes that collages are one of the most popular and engaging content types among Gen Z users, with over tens of millions of collages created on the platform. In early tests, Pinterest found that users saved auto-collages at twice the rate of standard product Pins. Auto-collages work by grouping together product…

Crypto adoption is accelerating under the Trump administration. The United States has emerged as a central force in shaping the crypto market, both from the standpoint of regulation and macroeconomics. The crypto market has begun moving along with US stock markets, reflecting growing institutional participation and sensitivity to macroeconomic conditions. In its latest report, HTX Ventures reviews the implementation of President Donald Trump’s crypto policies, current US dollar liquidity and its effect on the crypto markets.Find out more about the Trump-era policy executions and the crypto market growth catalysts, download the full report hereHow regulation is reshaping crypto market cyclesLegalization…

Traditional web tools are facing an existential crisis as AI products and tools increasingly eat up attention — and therefore market share and money — from a wide swathe of products that people have used for years to interact with the internet. At least, that’s what The Browser Company seems to think is happening. The company last year decided to stop developing its popular web browser Arc, acknowledging that while Arc was popular among enthusiasts, it never hit scale, as it presented too steep a learning curve to reach mass adoption. The startup has since been heads-down on developing a…

Uptime Industries is taking a bet on on-premise AI infrastructure with an “AI-in-a-box” handheld device called Lemony AI. The size of a sandwich, Lemony AI can supposedly run a large language model (LLM), AI agents and AI workflows all on one node. Each Lemony requires only 65 watts of power to run, the equivalent of charging a laptop, and can be stacked and connected to form bigger AI clusters. Sascha Buehrle, co-founder and CEO of Uptime, told TechCrunch that each node can sustain an LLM up to 75 billion parameters in size, and can host open-source models or retrofitted versions…

Check out the companies making headlines in premarket trading: GameStop — Shares of the video game retailer slipped 4%. GameStop posted first-quarter revenue of $732.4 million, down from the $881.8 million figure seen in the same period a year prior. Tesla — The electric vehicle maker rose 1.7%, on track for its fourth straight winning day. That comes after shares cratered last week following CEO Elon Musk’s online feud with President Donald Trump. Musk said on Wednesday that he regrets some of the social media posts he made regarding Trump. Quantum computing — Quantum computing stocks advanced after Nvidia CEO…

CNN  —  Acclaimed Ukrainian opera singer Vladislav Horay has been killed while on a volunteer mission to the Sumy region, where a frontline battle for territory continues. Horay was a soloist with the Odesa National Opera, which said in a statement that he was a “world-class tenor” and “Honored Artist of Ukraine,” whose voice was known around the globe. “Tragic news has shaken the entire artistic community of Ukraine,” the opera house said in a post on Facebook on Sunday. “(Horay) was not only a talented performer — he was an example of strength, dignity, and kindness in life.” The…