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What are people actually doing with AI chatbots? A new study looked at nearly 25,000 real conversations to find out
AI companies publish usage reports, but researchers say those reports leave out the messy parts. A new independent project called the AI Observatory dug into real chat data and found a very different picture.
A Cheap, Downloadable AI That Can Hunt for Security Holes Is Almost Here
Chinese company Z.ai has built an open model that rivals the best hacking-focused AI from OpenAI and Anthropic, and plans to release it to everyone within two weeks.
Dickovers, baggravation, botiquette: the new words we need to describe daily life with tech
A tech writer just gave a name to those infuriating pop-ups blocking the page you wanted to read. Naming the annoyance turns out to be only the beginning.
Apple's AirPods May Soon Have Cameras Built In. Here's What That Means for You.
A video buried inside Apple's latest software update shows AirPods identifying a book cover using AI. If the leak is real, your earbuds could soon act as a second pair of eyes.
AI tools sound most confident exactly when they are most wrong, new testing shows
A developer built a testing framework to measure whether an AI explainer tool actually got the right answer, not just whether it sounded convincing. What he found should worry any business relying on AI to guide real decisions.
AI firms are quietly buying up secondhand books by the thousands. Some are being destroyed to train chatbots.
A US court ruling cleared Anthropic to use purchased books for AI training. Now booksellers report a strange surge in sales of obscure titles, and court documents reveal a project with a goal to 'destructively scan all the books in the world'.
The AI shortcut that costs companies six times more than it should
A lead AI engineer spent a year building decision systems for regulated industries and found one fix that cut costs by 6x: stop sending every question to the language model in the first place.
DeepSeek's V4 Flash aces the leaderboards but stumbles on real work, then raises its prices
The AI model everyone called a bargain just got more expensive. New testing shows its real-world performance is patchier than its benchmark scores suggest.
Anthropic's revenue hits $65 billion a year, and it's still accelerating
The maker of the Claude AI assistant is growing faster than almost any company in history, and investors expect it to hit $100 billion or more by year's end.
A $899 AI Litter Box Couldn't Tell Two Very Different Cats Apart
Whisker's Litter-Robot 5 Pro promises AI health tracking and facial recognition for your cats. Six months of testing found the facial recognition failing, the waste sensor misfiring, and one cat mysteriously losing two pounds overnight.
Meet Moxi 2.0: The Hospital Robot That Learns on the Job
Diligent Robotics is rolling out its upgraded delivery robot to U.S. hospitals. It thinks faster, runs longer, and gets smarter with every shift.
Relay shuts down and its CEO heads to Google Chrome
The AI workflow startup is closing its doors in September. Its founder is joining Google as VP of Product for Chrome, where he says he has "ambitious plans" for AI.
Three ex-SpaceX engineers are building a robot factory to make steel parts for AI data centres
Their startup, 1872, opened its first facility in Cincinnati this month. The goal: automate most of the steel fabrication process by 2027, starting with the frames that hold modular data centres together.
A surgical robot just performed one of the world's most common heart operations through tiny cuts between the ribs
At a California hospital, a da Vinci robot helped a surgeon bypass blocked heart arteries without cracking open the chest. The patient was walking the next day.
Same Cluster, 33 Points More GPU Utilisation: What Changed Was the Order
A new scheduling system squeezed a third more work out of the same AI hardware just by changing which job runs first. Here is what that means for companies paying for GPU time.
Police are misusing licence plate readers to stalk women. Flock's fixes have big holes in them.
The company behind 120,000 roadside cameras updated its rules after officers used the system to track women. The changes don't go nearly far enough.
Is someone else logged into your ChatGPT, Claude, or Perplexity account?
AI accounts can be broken into just like any other online account. Here's how to check for uninvited sessions on the three most popular AI platforms, and how to kick intruders out.
Groq raises $350 million after ditching its own chips for Nvidia's
Once an Nvidia rival, the startup is now an Nvidia customer. Here is what happened and what it means for the cloud companies racing to run your AI.
Firefox for iPhone Now Has a Built-In Ad Blocker. Here Is What It Actually Blocks
Mozilla has quietly started adding an optional ad blocker to Firefox on iOS. It's convenient and free, but it leaves notable gaps, including every ad served inside Google and Bing search results.
Nvidia puts $1.5 billion into the data center company behind OpenAI's giant Ohio facility
The chip maker will also extend up to $105 billion in credit to help build a site that could eventually draw as much power as a small city.
AMD Says AI Now Writes 30% of Its Code. The Next Step Is Letting It Think for Itself
AMD's software teams hit a productivity milestone a year ahead of schedule. Now they're redesigning the entire development process around AI agents that solve problems without being told how.