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Picsart now allows creators to ‘hire’ AI assistants through agent marketplace

The AI-powered design platform Picsart is launching an AI agent marketplace, allowing creators to “hire” AI assistants to help them with specific tasks, like resizing and remixing social content, or editing product photos on Shopify. With over 130 million worldwide…

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As they say, the only things you can’t escape in life are death and taxes. Doing your own taxes has only gotten easier over the years but it’s still plenty confusing, especially with both federal and state rules and rates…

Forget the multiverse. In the pluriverse, we create reality together

J R Eyerman/The LIFE Picture Collection/Shutterstock What is now? The nature of the ever-changing present moment has always fascinated me, because there is a paradox at its heart. From a personal perspective, the present is everything: it is the only…

Bull sharks make ‘friends’—and prefer females to males

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Bull sharks (Carcharhinus leucas) have a really bad reputation. The ocean’s bad boys are responsible for at least 100 unprovoked attacks on humans, 27…

Scientists inject one tumor and watch cancer vanish across the body

For more than two decades, scientists have explored a group of cancer drugs known as CD40 agonist antibodies. Early experiments suggested these treatments could strongly activate the immune system and help it destroy cancer cells. However, results in people were…

Android tablets and foldables are getting a Chrome bookmark bar

Sometimes, it’s the little details in a software update that make the biggest improvements. Google is rolling out a new feature for Chrome that will add a bookmark bar to the browser on Android foldables and tablets. Spotted by 9to5Google,…

DLSS 5 looks like a real-time generative AI filter for video games

Nvidia announced DLSS 5 on Monday during its GTC conference, and based on early reactions, it’s going to be a divisive update, with some reactions calling it “slop” that unacceptably alters artistic intent. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is calling this…

Warren presses Pentagon over decision to grant xAI access to classified networks

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) sent a letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday expressing concern over the Pentagon’s decision to give Elon Musk’s company xAI access to classified networks. “Grok, the controversial AI model developed by xAI, has provided…

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AI is nearly exclusively designed by men – here’s how to fix it

From left to right: Rachel Coldicutt, David Leslie, Rumman Chowdhury, Noura Al Moubayed and Wendy Hall Royal Society/Debbie Rowe It’s day two of the Women and the future of science conference at the Royal Society in London, but I’m finding…