Reddit’s shiny new AI experiment, a chatbot called Answers, was supposed to make life easier. The idea is that it could dig through the platform’s massive archive of posts to give quick, smart summaries to user questions. Instead, it’s making headlines…
Opera’s Neon browser has three AI bots and one chaotic brain
Opera’s new AI browser, Neon, isn’t just another ChatGPT-in-a-browser situation. It’s a full-blown AI commune, three bots, one browser, all trying (and sometimes failing) to help you surf the web smarter. The trio, Chat, Do, and Make, is meant to tag-team…
ChatGPT helps California woman overturn unfair eviction ruling
The robots are coming for the legal system, and honestly? It’s about damn time. Meet Lynn White, the California woman who basically told her landlord to shove it, with a little help from her AI friends, reports Futurism. After losing a…
Anthropic debuts Skills for Claude to make it smarter at work
AI agents have spent years living in the tech world’s version of limbo, hyped up in PowerPoints, demoed on stage, but rarely doing anything you’d actually call useful. That’s changing fast. Companies like OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic are finally shifting from…
AI startup Nscale scores a massive GPU deal with Microsoft
AI hyperscaler startup Nscale has inked a monster deal with Microsoft to deploy roughly 200,000 Nvidia GB300 GPUs across four data centers, three in Europe and one in the US. That’s right, 200,000 of Nvidia’s hottest chips are about to get…
Japan warns OpenAI to stop “borrowing” its anime
Japan’s government just sent OpenAI a very polite but unmistakably sharp message: stop ripping off Japanese art. According to ITMedia (as reported by IGN), officials have formally asked the ChatGPT maker to cut it out after users flooded OpenAI’s video-generation app…
Arm joins forces with Meta to scale AI efforts
Semiconductor design company Arm is teaming up with Meta to give the social media empire’s AI systems a serious efficiency upgrade. The partnership will see Meta’s ranking and recommendation engines, which decide which reels, posts, and ads you scroll past, migrate…
Claude Haiku 4.5 promises big brains on a budget
Anthropic has dropped Claude Haiku 4.5, the newest version of its smallest and speediest AI model. Think of it as the scrappy little sibling to the mighty Sonnet 4.5, but with a caffeine boost and a clearance-sale price tag. According to…
Ohio lawmaker wants to outlaw marrying your AI chatbot
Ohio has seen its fair share of political debates, but this might be a first: the state legislature is talking about banning marriages between humans and software. Yes, software. Representative Thaddeus Claggett, chair of Ohio’s House Technology and Innovation Committee, recently…
California becomes the first state to regulate AI chatbots
California has become the first state to officially instruct AI chatbots to refrain from emotional manipulation. On October 13th, Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 243 into law, a piece of legislation aimed squarely at regulating the fast-growing (and occasionally weird)…