ByteDance's latest Seedance 2.0 release produces hyper-real outputs from fairly simple text and image outputs that blur the line between real and AI generated.

Google has added a new sidebar to Chrome that allows users to access Gemini from any of their tabs. (Google) Following its recent AI makeover of Gmail, Google is bringing more Gemini-powered tools to ...

Skild AI, which makes foundation models for robots, seems to have more than tripled its valuation in just seven months. The startup has raised a $1.4 billion Series C round that values it at more than ...

Qatar and UAE to officially join 'Pax Silica' within days Initiative aims to move the Middle East toward a tech-driven economy. U.S. and Israel to launch 'Fort Foundry One' and a tentative AI ...

DENVER (Friday, January 9, 2026) – The Colorado Avalanche, in collaboration with the National Hockey League and Sony’s Beyond Sports, today announced plans to air a real-time, animated program for the ...

Washington — The Trump administration plans to halt billions of dollars in federal funding for social services programs in five states led by Democrats following allegations of fraud, a Department of ...

The first rumblings came on Dec. 28. Traders in shopping malls near Tehran’s bazaar closed up their stalls, complaining they couldn’t earn enough to cover their bills. The rial, Iran’s currency, had ...

BRUNSWICK, Ohio --- When their otherwise happy and healthy 3-month old son, Brodie, developed a strange bruising, Traci and Russ Tigue assumed their pediatrician would find he had an iron deficiency ...

Swiss artificial intelligence startup Neural Concept SA said today it has raised $100 million in funding to rethink how products are designed and engineered with computer-aided design software tools.

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. LOMPOC, CA, November 7, 2025 – The City of Lompoc wants to help Lompoc residents and business owners light up the city with a ...