Gemini on Mac can now type what you say and act on what it sees
After rolling out Gemini Spark on macOS earlier this year, Google is now upgrading the Gemini app for Mac with…
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…
Wispr Flow asked its haters what was wrong and more than 700 people answered
More than 700 people responded when Wispr Flow invited its critics to explain what wasn’t working. It expected around 50.…
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…
Back-to-school desk upgrade? Start with one of these monitor arms
Dorm rooms and study desks have one thing in common: they run out of space fast. Between textbooks, notebooks, keyboards,…
WhatsApp Web finally lets your laptop handle calls instead of forcing you back to your phone
I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve had to awkwardly grab my phone mid-task just to take a WhatsApp…
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…
Tokyo lets AI play matchmaker, and hundreds of couples have already tied the knot
Government-run dating apps sound like something out of a policy white paper. Tokyo built one anyway, and it’s already helping…
Apple’s new Upgrade program lets you lease an iPhone, Mac, Watch, and iPad
Apple has officially launched Apple Upgrade, a leasing program that lets customers pay monthly for an iPhone, iPad, Mac, or…
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…
4 desk lamps I’d actually recommend for your back-to-school study setup
Back-to-school season means new notebooks, a planner you’ll abandon by October, and way too many hours spent hunched over a…
China’s Moonshot just handed developers a near-frontier AI model to download
Moonshot AI has released the full weights for Kimi K3, giving developers the freedom to download, modify, fine-tune, and host…
Shopping for a Back-to-school laptop? These are the laptops I’d recommend
A laptop is probably the one purchase that’ll have the biggest impact on the school year. It’ll be there for…