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Elon Musk's AI Wikipedia Rival Grokipedia Hasn't Updated in Three Months
xAI launched Grokipedia with six million articles and big promises. Now it appears frozen, with no accepted edits since late April.
MacPaw teams up with Liquid AI to run its assistant directly on your Mac
The company behind SetApp wants its AI tools to work offline, keep your data on your device, and eventually let developers plug into the same system.
This free app whispers the hidden history of wherever you're standing
Wrinkles uses your phone's location to play audio stories about the buildings, streets and landmarks around you, so you can look up instead of down.
Friend 2.0 Gets a Voice and a $249 Price Tag. But What Does It Actually Do?
The AI necklace designed to fight loneliness just added a built-in speaker and doubled its price. Its creator says it might be a confidant, a friend, or maybe a god. He is less certain about everything else.
Friend Is Back at Nearly Double the Price, Now With a Speaker
The AI companion pendant that papered New York City's subway with ads has relaunched as 'Friend 2.0', same concept, new voice feature, and a price tag that jumped from $129 to $249.
Friend AI Pendant Gets a Voice: Version 2 Can Now Speak Out Loud
The controversial AI companion necklace has a new speaker, a higher price tag, and a founder who admits the whole thing is 'inherently egomaniacal.'
Mark Zuckerberg Wants Meta's AI Agents to Work for Everyone, Not Just Coders
On Meta's Q2 2026 earnings call, Zuckerberg sketched out a vision of personal AI assistants that handle your health, finances and relationships, and promised details are coming soon.
Martha Stewart co-founded an AI app that manages your home for you
Hint launches today as a free iPhone app that builds a profile of your house from public records, tracks maintenance tasks, and answers questions about your insurance and energy bills.
Pangram raises $9 million to catch AI-written text and images before they fool you
A New York startup says its new detector is over 99% accurate at spotting AI-generated writing. Substack already uses it. Here is what that means for everyday readers.
Fantasy Premier League Gets an AI Companion to Help You Pick Your Squad
Microsoft's new FPL Companion tool answers your team questions, surfaces player stats, and updates in real time, but it will not pick your team for you.
Fed Up with AI? Librarians Are Teaching People How to Turn It Off
Workshops showing ordinary people how to disable AI features on their phones and computers are filling up within hours. Two librarians started the movement, and dozens more have joined.
Midjourney Has Bought the Astrology App Co-Star, and the Reasons Are Genuinely Interesting
The AI image company is quietly building a product empire that now includes horoscopes, medical projects and a spa. What does that mean for its 4.3 million stargazers?
Google's Gemini AI Assistant Is Closing In on One Billion Users
The app hit 950 million monthly users in Q2 2026, tripling its audience in a year, and is now directly chasing ChatGPT's lead.
The Robot That Charmed the Internet Is Back, Sort Of, as an AI Memory Camera
A startup called Lingverse has raised $29 million to build a wearable device it calls the iKairos, invoking the spirit of the beloved Jibo robot. What it actually does is fuzzier than the AI images it generates.
Halliday Gen 2 Smart Glasses Put AI Meeting Notes in Your Field of View
The second-generation glasses ditch the fiddly hidden display for a proper dual-screen setup, and aim to keep workers informed during meetings without touching a phone or laptop.