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Meta’s new AI gadget may look like a Tamagotchi, but its dangling form factor taps into a much broader Gen Z trend around bag charms, retro tech, and turning gadgets into fashion accessories.

ElevenLabs powers the AI voice on the other end of a lot of customer service calls, and its CEO told me this week that businesses should probably tell you that — at least until getting a machine is what everyone expects anyway.

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. A congressional representative just proposed killing America’s border tower program Delia Ramirez, a Democratic US representative from Illinois, has announced plans to introduce legislation to terminate the surveillance tower program along…

This week, world leaders descended on Manhattan for the UN General Assembly. It’s also New York Climate Week—investors, policymakers, advocates, and journalists are colliding at panels, talks, and fancy dinners. With so many climate voices in one place, the discourse can feel a little louder than usual. This year, the unavoidable topic is artificial intelligence.…

arXiv:2609.25036v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dynamic Gaussian Splatting provides an explicit representation of evolving 3D scenes, but existing approaches are primarily optimized for reconstruction, future-state generation, or rendering rather than for learning reusable predictive dynamics. We propose 4DGS-JEPA, a Gaussian-native joint-embedding predictive architecture for causal multi-horizon prediction over dynamic Gaussian scenes. The model uses a hierarchical scene-, motion-group-, and Gaussian-level representation together with a horizon-conditioned transition operator that supports both direct prediction and recursive rollout. Its central principle is temporal composition: different chronological transition paths reaching the same future endpoint should produce compatible predictive states. Endpoint and multi-horizon path supervision anchor these predictions to future target embeddings, while a selective geometry decoder and geometry-level composition ground the learned dynamics in consistent group motion and Gaussian geometry without requiring complete future appearance reconstruction. We further introduce a hybrid correspondence mechanism that combines persistent canonic

AI answers strip out the signals people once used to judge them. Here's why your content stack now misses in both directions. The post LLMs Are Time Machines That Don’t Tell You How Far You Went appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Block flattening can make weak AI Overview visibility look like a top ranking, so measure visits and conversions to assess search performance. The post Search Console Uses Block Flattening For AIOs, Forget Position & Focus On Outcomes appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

YouTube is adding shopping features to Ask YouTube, which may organize product review videos into a comparison table and answer questions on watch pages. The post YouTube Adds Shopping Features To Ask YouTube AI Search appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Under 'Project Suncatcher'.

Some preliminary preparation work afoot.

Polls DeepSeek, Qwen, Gemini and Mistral AIs.