Chinese authorities have banned automakers from using terms such as "smart driving" and "autonomous driving" for ads in the country, according to Reuters. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has tightened its rules for advertising driving assistance features following a fatal crash involving a Xiaomi SUV7 (pictured above), which raised concerns about the technology's safety. Based on Xiaomi's report, the vehicle's driving assistance mode was switched on when the vehicle was approaching a construction zone, but the driver took control right before the SUV collided with a concrete barrier. The electric vehicle went up in flames, with the accident claiming three lives. Back in 2022, the California DMV accused Tesla of falsely portraying its vehicles as fully autonomous based on the language it used on its website, though that didn't lead to a ban on advertising terms. Chinese authorities announced the new rule at a meeting attended by 60 representatives from the automobile industry.

Luna is Swedish AI company IntuiCell's version of the robot dog. But while it may look like its predecessors, Luna has something they don't: a functioning digital nervous system dubbed'physical agentic AI.' While most AI models rely on pre-existing data in order to build knowledge, physical agentic AI allows robots to learn by experiencing and adapting to the environments they're in -- the same way humans and other sentient beings learn. These kinds of robots, IntuiCell says, could be send to explore environments on distant planets in space. While Luna is still learning to perform basic tasks, thanks to a certified dog trainer, IntuiCell says that its next step would be to apply physical agentic AI to human-like robots.

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We've noticed a strange phenomenon: People pay subscription fees for software they've already been using for decades. Microsoft 365 might feel familiar, but it quietly drains your account. Instead, you could grab a Microsoft 2024 lifetime license for a one-time 159.97 payment and own your favorite tools once and for all. This software suite normally costs 249.99, so get yours ASAP before we sell out of codes. Within 16 months, this lifetime license starts paying for itself.

Google's Imagen 3 is a powerful AI text-to-image generator that earned ZDNET's pick as the best image generator -- even against competitors like Midjourney and OpenAI. As a result, the release of its Veo 2 text-to-video generator has been highly anticipated. Well, it's finally here, and it comes with a surprise. On Tuesday, Google announced via a blog post that its state-of-the-art Veo 2 video generator is now available in Gemini. This feature allows users to create eight-second video clips at 720p resolution in a 16:9 landscape format using a simple text prompt.

The only office within the US State Department that monitors foreign disinformation is to be eliminated, according to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, confirming reporting by MIT Technology Review. The Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (R/FIMI) Hub is a small office in the State Department's Office of Public Diplomacy that tracks and counters foreign disinformation campaigns. The culling of the office leaves the State Department without a way to actively counter the increasingly sophisticated disinformation campaigns from foreign governments like those of Russia, Iran, and China. What is vibe coding, exactly? When OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy excitedly took to X back in February to post about his new hobby, he probably had no idea he was about to coin a phrase that encapsulated an entire movement steadily gaining momentum across the world.

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Grok, the AI assistant from Elon Musk's X, now has a memory. According to the company's official account on X, Grok can now remember your previous conversations. That means the responses it gives you will be more personalized using stored data; in an example shared on Twitter, a user asks for a workout plan, and gets a response that includes their previous experience and interest in fitness activities. You can always check out which memories Grok has referenced (you can do that by clicking the "Referenced Cards" icon under a response) and erase some of them if you choose to do so. X labels Grok's memory function as beta, and says it's available on iOS and Android, but not in the EU or the UK.

Google rolled out live video and screen sharing abilities for Gemini Live in March, and now all Android users can play with the tools for free. Announced during Mobile World Congress (MWC) last month, Google's ChatGPT Voice Mode competitor now has the ability to "see" -- meaning you can use your smartphone camera or share your screen to ask Gemini Live real-time questions about your immediate surrounds or current website during your chats. At launch in March, the continuous conversational AI's new tool was only available to paying Gemini Advanced subscribers on Pixel 9 and Samsung Galaxy S25 devices. But on Wednesday, Google announced it's now free to all Android users with the Gemini app installed. "We've been hearing great feedback on Gemini Live with camera and screen share, so we decided to bring it to more people," the official Google Gemini App account posted on X. "Starting today and over the coming weeks, we're rolling it out to all Android users with the Gemini app."

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