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Today, I’m talking with Runway CEO and cofounder Cris Valenzuela. This one’s special: Cris and I were live at an event in New York City last month hosted by Alix Partners, so you’ll hear the audience in the background from time to time.Runway is one of the leading AI video generation platforms. The basic concept is familiar by now: you start with a reference image — either something you’ve created using Runway’s own model or something you upload — you type in a prompt, and Runway spits out a fully formed video sequence.But what’s most interesting to me about Runway…

Apple’s next generation of iPhones might support substantially faster wireless charging if new regulatory leaks are to be believed. A pair of MagSafe chargers with 45W power output and support for the upcoming Qi2.2 standard have been found on a Taiwanese certification site, suggesting that Apple is readying the hardware, possibly timed for the iPhone 17 launch.91Mobiles spotted listings for what it says are two Apple-made MagSafe chargers on the website of Taiwan’s National Communications Commission. The chargers, model numbers A3503 and A3502, appear to support the same charging specifications but come with braided cables of different lengths, either 1m…

Doomscroll on TikTok long enough, and you’ll come across an ad for AI video apps. In one ad, a stereotypically nerdy girl puckishly smirks as she uploads a picture of herself and her much more handsome crush. Boom — suddenly, thanks to AI, they’re smooching. In another, I’m shown a woman in a blouse and jeans. Do I want to know what she looks like in a blue bikini? Psst. There’s an app for that. The ad then shows me the woman in said blue bikini. These apps aren’t peddling the digital nudes many people associate with AI deepfakes, which…

Introduction It hasn’t been in the tablet game all that long, but OnePlus has rapidly turned itself into a major player. Its last few efforts ranked as some of the best tablets running Android, and now it’s back with a threequel that could also give the iPad Air a run for its money. The OnePlus Pad 3 has a bigger screen, bigger battery, and more powerful internals than its predecessor, yet continues the firm’s run of undercutting the competition. The 13.2in successor to the OnePlus Pad 2 arrives at $699/£529-£599/€599 depending on storage capacity, making it easier on the wallet…

The best apps are those that save you a significant amount of time or genuinely fire up your imagination. Room planners make a strong claim to do both. These tools are able to give you 2D or 3D visualizations of your new home quickly and easily, letting you dream about the sort of spaces you want to create while also making sure you don’t waste hours on furniture arrangements that don’t work.If you’re already on the way to moving to a new home, or just thinking about it, these apps can help. They’re all different in terms of the exact…

Back in the 1990s and 2000s, stores often opened at midnight for new tech releases – some of the most famous include Microsoft’s Windows 95 and the initial iPhone in 2007. But the excitement has somewhat died down as we’ve moved further into the e-commerce age and further away from being dependent on stores. However, major console releases remain rare and there’s still excitement around new launches. But we haven’t had a physical console buzz for quite a while. After all, the Xbox Series X and S as well as the PlayStation 5 debuted in late 2020 after six months…

Future Amazon orders may be delivered to your door by a humanoid robot workforce. The Information reports that Amazon is developing AI software that will enable robots to operate as package delivery workers that are ferried around in Rivian electric vans, and will soon be ready to start real-world testing at a new facility.Citing an anonymous source “involved in the effort,” The Information says that Amazon has almost finished constructing an indoor “humanoid park” at one of the retail giant’s San Francisco offices that’s roughly the size of a coffee shop. The obstacle course reportedly contains one Rivian van for…

If you’ve tried to get Dolby Atmos sound in your living room, you’ll know it’s like playing surround sound Tetris. You’ve got to find some spare outlets, line up your speakers, and then fiddle with the calibration. It’s definitely not the easiest of tasks. That’s why Dolby started working on FlexConnect for Atmos. It’s some clever tech that actively adapts the sound based on where the speaker is plonked in your room, so you don’t need to line things up precisely. And TCL’s newest Dolby Atmos speakers are the first to support FlexConnect, which means they’re headed straight for my…

OnePlus has debuted another version of the OnePlus 13 flagship smartphone to follow up the main handset as well as the upper mid-range OnePlus 13R. The new version is the OnePlus 13S but it comes with a pretty big caveat – you can only get it in India at the moment. That’s great news if you live there, but it won’t be launching in the US or Europe at present. Although it’s smaller, I think this latest OnePlus phone still can hardly be called ‘compact’, with a 6.32in Full HD+ LTPO AMOLED screen and it should be super-bright, with peak…

Reddit sued Anthropic on Wednesday in San Francisco superior court, claiming that the OpenAI rival had accessed its platform more than 100,000 times since July 2024, after Anthropic allegedly said it had blocked its bots from doing so. In the filing, Reddit calls Anthropic a “late-blooming artificial intelligence (‘AI’) company that bills itself as the white knight of the AI industry,” alleging that “it is anything but.” “This case is about the two faces of Anthropic: the public face that attempts to ingratiate itself into the consumer’s consciousness with claims of righteousness and respect for boundaries and the law, and…

As we build out the next phase of the agentic web, we have a tremendous opportunity to transform every role, business process, and industry. The distinct categories of today will all converge to power this next wave of innovation. And to that end, we are bringing together LinkedIn, Microsoft 365, and Dynamics 365 to redefine and to drive these new Al solutions.With that context, I am excited to share two organizational updates:First, Ryan Roslansky will take on an expanded role as EVP of Office, reporting to Rajesh in that capacity, while continuing as CEO of LinkedIn reporting to me, and…

We live in a golden age of controllers. The gamepads on the market now are of higher quality, more versatile, and more customizable than anything from even one console generation ago. If you play games on an Xbox Series X or Series S (or a Windows PC), you have the unenviable task of choosing between several high-quality controllers from Microsoft as well as a plethora of great options from the likes of 8BitDo, PowerA, Razer, Scuf, Nacon, and Turtle Beach. Some of them have drift-proof Hall effect or TMR-based joysticks for improved longevity, yet all of them are good for…