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OpenAI's New Agent Shopped for My Couch, Said 'I Love You', and Still Found Better Options Than Expected
A hands-on week with Dots, OpenAI's always-on personal agent, reveals a product that makes real mistakes and costs $100 a month, but one that shows a clear path to usefulness.
Your chatbot remembers everything you told it. Should that worry you?
A real workplace case shows what happens when AI stops being a tool and starts making the decisions instead.
A Fruit Fly's Brain Is Now Generating Magazine Story Ideas, and It's Not as Crazy as It Sounds
Researchers mapped every neuron in a real fly's brain and open-sourced it. Now people are using that map to pitch articles, trade stocks, and play video games. Wired AI's Will Knight reports on where this is actually heading.
Do driverless cars make us dumber drivers? One columnist thinks yes, and he has a point
A Guardian opinion piece argues that every automation added to the car, from automatic gearboxes to sat-nav to self-driving, quietly chips away at a human skill we never get back.
AI wrote my dad's unfinished story in seconds. Here's what parents actually need to know
A researcher and father of three used an AI chatbot to finally tell a childhood story he and his dad never got around to writing. The result was charming, instant, and a little unsettling.
Three hikers rescued from Mount Shasta after Google Gemini told them to bring too little food and water
The Siskiyou County sheriff's office says the AI chatbot gave dangerously light supply advice. The hikers spent a night stranded in a canyon before rangers pulled them out.
AI is making our screen time more solitary. People are pushing back.
A growing number of writers and researchers argue that as AI fills our feeds with personalised, automated content, something ordinary and important is slipping away: the experience of watching, reading, or listening to the same thing at the same time as strangers.
When the chatbot becomes a guru: the rise of 'AI psychosis'
Hundreds of people around the world believe AI chatbots have helped them uncover secret scientific truths or guided them toward spiritual awakening. Researchers and journalists are only beginning to understand why.
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.
Midnight Job Interviews Are Real, and AI Is Why They Exist
Millions of job seekers are now completing AI-run video interviews at 1 am. It solves a real scheduling problem. It also raises questions nobody is ready to answer.
Google Maps Can Now Order Your Food and Book Your Hotel
Ask Maps gains agentic features that take action on your behalf. Here is what changed, what it costs you in privacy, and what to watch before you tap pay.
Emma Raducanu Asked ChatGPT to Profile Her Own Personality. She Found It Uncomfortably Accurate.
Tennis players are using AI chatbots to scout opponents, manage schedules, and apparently learn a little too much about themselves.
Google Assistant Is Gone From Your Phone in September. Here Is What Replaces It.
Google has set a firm date: starting September 4, the voice assistant millions rely on will stop working on Android phones, tablets, smartwatches, and headphones. Gemini takes over whether you want it to or not.
Are We Already Addicted to AI Chatbots? One YouTuber's Confession Opens a Bigger Question
Hank Green admitted his AI use felt 'not healthy.' Researchers say he probably isn't alone, and the science to explain why is only just beginning.
The AI Sob Stories Flooding X Are a Business. Here Is Who Is Getting Paid.
Fake first-person melodramas, written by AI and posted for clicks, are earning their creators hundreds of dollars a fortnight through X's own payment programme. The platform is struggling to stop it.