AI chatbots will agree and misinform if you just put a little pressure, warns research
AI chatbots have a well-documented habit of hallucinating information and sometimes agreeing with users even when they are wrong. A…
Google brings its best AI music model Lyria 3.5 to the Gemini app
Google has added Lyria 3.5, its most advanced music generation model yet, to the Gemini app. Previously available through Google’s…
My friend has cancer. I saw her ask ChatGPT for medical advice, and it shook me.
I wrote this article at roughly 3 am, sitting in a clinic lobby while my friend talks to an oncologist…
You worry about AI taking your job because you know too much about AI, research finds
If you have been paying close attention to artificial intelligence, you may have noticed your worries about job security growing…
You no longer need a subscription to try Google’s Dreambeans app
Google has finally removed the paywall on one of its more interesting Labs experiments. Dreambeans, the AI app that builds…
South Korea is funding free AI to help citizens book appointments, file taxes, and everyday tasks
South Korea wants to make access to artificial intelligence as easy as electricity or public transit. Instead of leaving premium…
OpenAI and more than 100 companies warn an AI cyberattack surge is coming
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and more than 100 other companies and organizations are warning that AI-powered cyberattacks could become much…
Gemini Notebook now lets you reference books and turn them into different formats
Gemini Notebook, formerly known as NotebookLM, is getting a new feature that will let you directly access and cite information…
AI receptionists seem like a dangerous idea after a patient revealed it failed to understand her request
AI receptionists are supposed to make calling the doctor easier. But a growing number of patients are finding that the…
In China, AI has reached dumpling shops where you also get to feed on compute tokens
Imagine you visit a dumpling shop to indulge in a plate of piping-hot savory goodness. And as you queue up,…
Silicon Valley wants AI everywhere. It just doesn’t want us to notice
For all the noise tech companies are making about AI slop, I haven’t seen much evidence that they actually want…
Adobe wants Firefly to handle the entire soundtrack for your videos
Adobe Firefly has spent the past few years learning to make images and video. Now Adobe wants it handling the…
OpenAI wants to monitor AI abuse without forcing customers to hand over their data
OpenAI wants to get better at spotting people abusing its frontier AI models without asking privacy-conscious customers to give up…
Claude is getting ambitious with watermarking, and I can smell the problems from a mile away
Anthropic wants to make AI-generated text easier to identify, and on paper, I have very little reason to complain. The…
Say goodbye to Chronicle. ChatGPT’s new Computer History feature does it better
OpenAI just rolled out Computer History for the ChatGPT desktop app, and if you found Chronicle interesting but a little…