Artificial Intelligence
Simply put: No field in computing is as hot or heavily hyped right now as artificial intelligence. Once a science fiction dream, A.I. is now a big part of our everyday lives; whether it’s commonplace tech like fraud prevention systems, online recommendations, or the speech recognition tools driving smart assistants — all the way through to innovative new technologies like self-driving cars and autonomous delivery robots. Want to know why A.I. matters? In need of a primer on the difference between deep learning and reinforcement learning? Scared at the possibility of machine superintelligence? Helpfully, we’ve rounded up all our news, guides, and assorted other A.I. coverage in one central location.
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Granola’s new voice typing feature lets you ditch the keyboard
Granola already takes your meeting notes. Now its free voice typing feature turns your speech into polished text in any app, from emails and Slack updates to detailed AI prompts.
An AI-generated movie flopped in China despite its budget and Hollywood must take notes
China’s first fully AI-generated theatrical film struggled to draw audiences despite its reported $1.5 million budget. The result clearly shows that AI technology alone cannot guarantee box-office success.
Opera wants websites to run AI on your laptop instead of sending your data to the cloud
Opera’s WebAI preview lets websites and extensions use AI models running locally on supported computers, avoiding cloud processing and separate subscriptions while leaving access under the user’s control through site-specific permissions.
Robot dogs were supposed to help humans. Now humans are being asked to babysit them
Dimensional advertised $20-an-hour robot dog walkers who might need to carry the machines home. Its software and Anthropic's research show how much human help useful AI-powered robots can still require.
Researchers develop a new forensic tool that can recover deleted AI chats from your phone’s memory
Think deleting an AI chat erases everything? Georgia Tech researchers developed a forensic tool that can recover deleted conversations from local AI apps and rebuild the information into a working session.
OpenAI’s new GPT-6.1 Terra model gets Astra-like results for one-tenth the price
OpenAI says GPT-6.1 Terra can match Astra on Agents’ Last Exam while running more than three times faster and costing one-tenth as much per token.
As Anthropic goes public, it warns of AI’s catastrophic and existential risks to humanity
Anthropic’s IPO filing warns that increasingly capable AI systems could behave autonomously, enable cyberattacks, and create catastrophic or even existential risks.
Grok’s AI-generated Odyssey series is seven minutes of nothing happening beautifully
Grok Imagine’s first Odyssey episode can conjure ancient landscapes, but its interchangeable faces and robotic performances expose what AI filmmaking still can’t fake.
OpenAI is locking its most advanced AI models offline after a string of security scares
After a model briefly reached the live web, OpenAI’s most advanced systems will now practice only on a simulated internet.
AI helped uncover a hidden PHP flaw. Now websites worldwide are facing millions of hacking attempts.
A critical PHP vulnerability has triggered millions of exploit attempts worldwide. AI tools helped researchers uncover the flaw, leaving governments and companies racing to patch vulnerable websites.
Grok Bot can now add events, set reminders, and even turn off your lights for you
Grok Bot can now connect with Calendar, Reminders, Contacts, Messages, and more on your phone, turning the chatbot into a proper assistant.
Microsoft has begun rolling out Copilot Code for building apps with natural language
Copilot Code is beginning to roll out through Microsoft’s Frontier program, letting users build workplace apps and workflows using natural language.
Mori might be the cutest AI companion robot yet, and it reacts to you like a pet
OKA’s Mori is a cute AI companion that can recognize people, remember interactions, react to music, and behave more like a pet than a home assistant.
AI chatbots are falling prey to manipulative prompts that could help stalkers spy on victims
Spyware, tracking and shared accounts need human help. Here’s what to do before trusting a chatbot’s tech-safety advice.
EXCLUSIVE: How Klara and the Sun warns of a future where humans compete with AI
Taika Waititi and Jenna Ortega's sci-fi film, Klara and the Sun, offers a chilling warning about AI being used to replace people in a society obsessed with perfection.
Anthropic unveils Claude Duet, its answer to AI agents like Dots
Anthropic has unveiled Claude Duet, a new work-focused AI agent that can monitor connected apps, handle background tasks, and keep working after you step away.
Google is making Gemini smarter behind the wheel by connecting it to Gmail, Photos, and Maps
Google's Personal Intelligence lets Gemini draw on your apps to give you useful insights while driving such as flight updates, appointment directions, and restaurant suggestions that match your preferences.
ChatGPT now has locked chats to keep your sensitive conversations hidden
The new privacy-centric feature is available now for every ChatGPT user, from the free tier to the Go, Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Education plans.
Researchers developed an AI tool that predicts cancer survival odds by analyzing patients’ face
Could a selfie reveal clues about a cancer patient’s survival risk? Researchers have developed an AI model that estimates biological age and predicts mortality risk, using facial photographs of a patient.
Spotify has kicked 50 million AI slop tracks out of your recommendations
Spotify is stepping up its fight against AI-generated music spam, with millions of tracks filtered out and new tools designed to help listeners discover genuine artists.
The US has banned DeepSeek from federal agencies, including apps built on its AI
Homeland Security has pulled DeepSeek from federal civilian systems, and Beijing says Washington is stretching the idea of national security.
ChatGPT Slides lets users create, edit and present decks without leaving ChatGPT
ChatGPT Slides helps users create editable presentations from conversations, files and outlines, with collaborative editing and exports to PowerPoint, PDF and Google Slides.
Your AI chatbot might have brain rot, and it could be making things worse for you
A new study finds that AI models trained on junk social media posts develop brain rot, skipping reasoning and picking up bad ethics.
Gemini Notebook now lets you review slides and videos before generating them
Gemini Notebook’s new co-create option lets you pick topics, choose styles, and review the outline before your slide decks and video overviews are generated.
Google wants you to chat with Gemini to fix issues instead of scrolling through support pages
Google is changing how you get help with its products. Its new “Ask Google Help” experience offers shorter answers and interactive troubleshooting instead of traditional support articles.
What does an AI agent do when it’s left alone with no task? This experiment offers a clue
Researchers at MIT gave Claude a virtual island to explore, and it started inventing games, testing physics, and discovering tricks that helped it perform better later.
Kylie Minogue is the latest artist to have been caught in the wholesale AI theft storm
The ICMP claims AI models have been trained on songs by Kylie Minogue and Nick Cave without paying them. Now, Australia's copyright laws are at the center of a growing dispute over AI training.
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