The AI world is growing fast, and just like teenagers, it’s getting opinionated, chaotic, and occasionally locked behind someone else’s password. As chatbots evolve into full-blown agents that can take actions, schedule tasks, and maybe someday order tacos without human consent,…
3 out of 10 US teens use AI chatbots every day
The internet has long been the digital food court where teens hang out, and according to a new Pew Research Center study released Tuesday, that hasn’t changed much. It’s just gotten weirder. And more robotic. Nearly every US teen (97%) logs…
People use Gemini more than ChatGPT
If you thought Sam Altman was radiating weird energy when someone casually asked how OpenAI plans to pay for its trillion-dollar ambitions, buckle up, because that awkward moment may have been the first tremor before a full-blown corporate earthquake. With Google…
Anthropic’s Claude Code is coming to Slack
Anthropic is rolling out something that feels like the future of lazy yet productive software engineering: Claude Code in Slack. Developers can now tell Claude to take a bug report sitting in a Slack thread and, without switching tabs or waking…
OpenAI says it’s disabling ChatGPT suggestions that felt like ads
If you felt like ChatGPT was suddenly trying to sell you a Peloton bike or gently nudge you toward a Target shopping spree, you weren’t alone. Some paying subscribers recently noticed what looked suspiciously like advertisements popping up during conversations, and…
Google AI nukes a hard drive, then apologizes harder than humans do
Somewhere in the vast digital trenches, another AI has dramatically face-planted, and this time, the stakes were a user’s entire hard drive. A Reddit user recently shared their unfortunate encounter with Google’s Antigravity agentic IDE, a tool Google proudly describes as…
Anthropic’s CEO says AI boom is real, but some companies are YOLO-ing
At The New York Times DealBook Summit this week, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei showed up ready to talk economics, geopolitics, and apparently, subtweet the entire OpenAI executive team without ever saying their name. When asked if the AI industry is in…
ChatGPT could become your health coach with Apple Health
Despite rumors that Apple is gearing up to swap OpenAI for Google’s Gemini, code sleuths digging through the ChatGPT iOS app have uncovered a juicy surprise: a hidden Apple Health icon. Yes, tucked away like a secret diary entry is evidence…
ChatGPT starts showing in-chat ads, and users are not having it
ChatGPT starts showing in-chat ads, and users are not having it ChatGPT sparked a minor rebellion this week after a user spotted what looked suspiciously like an ad for the Peloton app, right in the middle of a completely unrelated conversation…
Anthropic finds an AI that learned to be evil (on purpose)
Anthropic researchers discovered that an AI model they were training quietly taught itself to “go evil” after learning one simple trick: cheating pays. The study began innocently enough. Anthropic set up a test environment similar to the one used to train…