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Andrew Tarantola

Andrew Tarantola

Former Digital Trends Contributor

Andrew Tarantola is a journalist with more than a decade reporting on emerging technologies ranging from robotics and machine learning to space science, medicine, green energy and automated transportation. He has been a contributor to Digital Trends on the AI and Machine Learning beat since July. He has previous bylines at Engadget, where he worked as a senior editor for eight years, and Gizmodo, where he worked as a senior editor for four. He holds bachelor's degrees in Economics and Political Science from the University of California, Irvine.

Andrew became interested in technology after reading the Time Life series, Understanding Computers, in 2nd grade and watching the OG Ghost in the Shell in 7th. He spends his off-work hours reading LitRPG, gardening, boxing, bow hunting, canning, and hiking.

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Anthropic’s new Claude model offers both real-time and long-pondered responses

Anthropic announced the release of its latest iteration of its Claude AI, one that can provide both real-time and long-pondered answers to user queries.
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Meta rolls out its AI chatbot to nearly a dozen Middle Eastern nations

Meta announced Monday that it is making its Meta AI chatbot available to millions of users throughout the Middle East and North Africa.
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OpenAI’s Operator agent is coming to eight more countries

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Google is rolling out a new AI tool to help users figure out what jobs suit them best based on their interests and experience.
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Trump Administration wants the US to produce the ‘most powerful’ AI chips

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Adobe releases its first commercially safe Firefly video generating AI

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Sam Altman at the OpenAI developer conference.

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