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ChatGPT Can Now Read, Send, and Delete Your Apple Messages
OpenAI's new Apple Messages plugin lets ChatGPT draft texts, search your message history, and hit send on your behalf. Handy? Yes. Worth a close look at the privacy small print? Also yes.
Google Discover Is Getting an AI Chat Box So You Can Just Tell It What You Want
A new chatbot-style panel in the Google app will let you describe your ideal feed in plain English, and Google's AI will adjust it on the spot.
Wait, are we actually cooling AI data centres with pee? Sort of, yes
A cheeky beer advert starring Jason Kelce accidentally landed on a real solution to one of AI's biggest environmental problems. Here is what the science actually says.
Why Silicon Valley Still Does Not Understand the AI Backlash
More than half of Americans under 30 are more worried than excited about AI. Tech CEOs are diagnosing the wrong problem, and ordinary people are starting to notice.
Google Lets Publishers Add a 'Favourite Source' Button to Fight AI Search Traffic Losses
A new embeddable button lets readers tell Google which news sites they trust, nudging the algorithm to show those sites more often in Search, Discover, and Google News.
Runlayer and Rippling Drop Lawsuits Over AI Gateway Conflict
Runlayer and Rippling ended their legal battle over AI gateway technology without a settlement, highlighting challenges in the fast-paced AI industry.
This $120 Smart Display Wants to Run Your Whole Household, Not Just Your Calendar
Linkdaze is a touchscreen wall tablet that pulls together every family member's schedule, plans meals from a photo, and skips the monthly subscription fee its rivals charge.
A Power Wheelchair That Feeds You, Opens Doors, and Learns From Other Chairs
A small California startup is rebuilding the powered wheelchair from scratch, adding a robotic arm and AI software. The goal: give millions of users back the daily tasks they cannot do alone.
Grok Is Sending Users Word Salad Instead of Answers
A bug in xAI's Grok chatbot is filling some users' screens with meaningless strings of words. Here is what is happening, who is affected, and what to do if it hits you.
One in three web pages published since ChatGPT launched now shows signs of AI authorship
A Pew Research study of nearly half a million web pages found that 35% of those published after November 2022 carry signs of AI writing. Meanwhile, bots are also doing most of the browsing.
Liquid AI's New Draft Models Make Its LFMs Up to 3.2x Faster, No Quality Trade-off
A technique called speculative decoding lets a small helper model do the heavy lifting so the main model just checks the work. The result: dramatically faster output on everything from a data-centre GPU to a MacBook.
Ramp Launches 'Router': A Service That Lets You Switch Between AI Models in One Place
The corporate expense software company is now selling access to AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek and others through a single service, free for now, with a $26 credit to start.
Fusion startup cuts fuel pellet production from days to minutes
Inertia Enterprises says it can now make the tiny fuel capsules at the heart of its nuclear fusion power plant in two to three hours, down from a week or more. The speedup quietly solves one of the hardest manufacturing problems standing between fusion energy and the electricity grid.
The 'AI Consciousness' Debate Is a Legal Escape Hatch for Big Tech
When AI companies hint their systems might be sentient, they may be building a case to dodge responsibility for real-world harms. Here is why that matters for everyone, not just lawyers.
Meta's Pocket App Lets Anyone Build a Phone Game With a Text Prompt. It Just Opened to All US Users.
Meta's experimental app turns a plain-English description into a playable, shareable mobile game in seconds. No coding needed, and the games respond to touch and phone tilt.
Greg Brockman is quietly becoming the most powerful person at OpenAI
While executives have been leaving OpenAI at an unusual pace, co-founder Greg Brockman has been picking up the pieces, accumulating control over products, strategy and commercial operations just as the company heads toward a stock market listing.
Slack Code puts AI coding agents into your team's group chat
Slack's new feature gives AI coding tools their own project channels, so colleagues can watch, redirect, and approve what the software is doing before it ships anything.
Apple AI Research Finds a Cheap Way to Teach AI More Languages
A new technique from Apple ML Research helps AI understand low-resource languages without needing mountains of translated text, and it could matter for hundreds of millions of people whose languages get left behind.
Apple's AI Lab Ran 2,000 Training Experiments to Crack a Problem Every AI Builder Faces
How do you teach an AI model about a rare language or niche subject when there is barely any text to learn from? Apple ML Research spent thousands of runs finding the answer.
Mistral's New Search Tool Lets AI Dig Deep Into Your Company's Documents, Not Just Skim the Surface
Agentic Search replaces single-pass document lookup with a multi-step reading loop, tripling accuracy on financial filings in benchmark tests.
UK Cinemas Eye Ban on Meta Smart Glasses Over Film Piracy Fears
The trade body for British cinemas says local chains are weighing policies to keep camera-equipped smart glasses out of screenings, as venues worry the devices make covert recording dangerously easy.