Free AI chatbots are disrupting China’s expensive college counseling industry
Every summer, roughly 10 million Chinese students face a brutal deadline. After taking the grueling Gaokao college entrance exam, they…
Gemini can now summarize the messiest comment threads in Google Docs
Shared Google Docs have a way of turning feedback into archaeology. Once several reviewers pile into the same file, figuring…
Study says relying on AI can turn doubt into false confidence
You’d think getting wrong advice would make you more cautious. New research says the opposite happens when that advice comes…
Researchers have built a tool that can identify the AI used to make a fake video
AI-generated videos have gotten so realistic that spotting a fake is difficult enough on its own. Figuring out which AI…
AI’s latest problem is deepfake disaster content for farming engagement
Social feeds around the earthquakes in Venezuela filled with recycled footage and AI-generated destruction. Severe weather in China attracted its…
AI dramas need actors, so Chinese platforms are turning human faces into stock assets
People in China can now license their face to AI much like a photographer licenses a stock image. AI creators…
Claude Opus 5 is here, and Anthropic says it can rival Fable 5 in some tasks
Anthropic has launched Claude Opus 5, its latest frontier AI model for coding, research, business work, and other complex tasks.…
Humans actually prefer talking to an AI than a support person, says gas giant as it cuts jobs
Centrica, owner of British Gas, is cutting 1,300 call centre jobs, and its chief executive says changing customer behaviour is…
China’s AI talent shortage has tech giants recruiting teenagers
A 13-year-old boy in Hangzhou has already won national AI competitions and built a following of more than 136,000 people…
Gemini Notebook’s new Collections arrive just as Google turns it into a bigger workspace
Google has barely finished renaming NotebookLM, and it’s already addressing one of the headaches that comes with building a large…
Samsung’s humanoid robot ambitions are real, but factories come first
Samsung wants a place in the humanoid race, but its new robotics push begins with machines built for factories rather…
This experiment shows how easy it is to poison an open-weight AI model for under $100
Open-weight AI models have been having a moment lately. Just this month, Moonshot’s massive Kimi K3 model landed close behind…
Google’s AI just recreated the best goal ever by Pele that was never actually filmed
If you look at the AI landscape, a majority of its usage in the film and television industry has been…