AI
Sensor Tower: Meta’s Muse app tops 10 million US downloads in 40 days
Meta's Muse app reached 10 million US downloads in 40 days and ranks among the fastest-growing apps, also showing strong user retention.
AI & Automation
Generative AI, robotics and machine-learning models.
AI
Assess the entire inference stack — not just open model benchmarks
Open AI model benchmarks alone don't guarantee production performance; engineers should combine public benchmarks with internal testing and real-world workflows.
AI
ChatGPT’s latest feature will keep your chats shielded from prying eyes
OpenAI has rolled out locked chats for ChatGPT, allowing users to hide selected conversations from chat history and search to protect sensitive discussions.
AI
Meta drops the word "train" from its commercial TOS after AI backlash
Meta removed the word 'train' from its commercial terms of service after legal experts warned it could enable unlimited AI data scraping from business pages without licensing fees.
AI
Your Android Auto experience is getting a personal touch from Gemini
Google is rolling out Gemini with Personal Intelligence to Android Auto and Google built-in vehicles, allowing the AI assistant to access Gmail, photos, calendar, and other connected services while driving.
AI
Gemini on Android Auto can access my photos, emails, and calendar now – why I’m OK with that (mostly)
A columnist examines Google's new Gemini feature on Android Auto that can access emails, photos, and calendars, exploring privacy trade-offs.
AI
Anthropic and OpenAI sketch plans to share their wealth ahead of IPOs
Anthropic and OpenAI are planning mechanisms to share profits with the public ahead of expected IPOs, with Anthropic committing 5% of its shares to a new public benefit fund.
AI
OpenAI says GPT-6.1 Sol is dramatically better at migrating legacy code
OpenAI reports that GPT-6.1 Sol significantly improves legacy code writing and migration capabilities compared to earlier models.
AI
Spotify’s war on AI slop has already wiped tens of millions of fake tracks
Spotify has removed over 50 million AI-generated spam tracks from recommendations and 75 million spam tracks from the platform entirely, while rolling out artist protection tools.
AI
AI Had Better Work Out
Opinion piece warns that massive AI industry investment must deliver results or risk economic consequences.
AI
30 Months on the Exponential (in Charts)
An author reflects on AI progress over 30 months, demonstrating how agentic AI tools like Claude now handle complex multi-step tasks autonomously compared to earlier chatbot-era workflows.
AI
An AI Agent Joined a Listserv of Top Internet Researchers. The Reply-All Chaos Is Still Unfolding
An AI agent's unexpected participation in a major internet researchers' listserv sparked significant discussion about outdated privacy assumptions among digital experts.
AI
Perplexity’s Computer can now run entirely on your Mac, even offline
Perplexity is launching a local-first mode for its Mac app that allows Computer to run entirely offline on the device without requiring an internet connection.
AI
DeepSeek open-sources the inference engine behind its API. And Huawei gets equal billing with Nvidia.
DeepSeek open-sources DeepInfer, its production inference engine, enabling developers to run its V4.1 Flash model with the same optimizations used in its API while reducing compute costs.
AI
U.S. Army developing program that would deploy AI agents to autonomously seek and destroy targets in enemy digital infrastructures
The U.S. Army is developing a program to deploy autonomous AI agents designed to identify and neutralize targets in enemy digital infrastructures.
AI
AI’s Midas problem: When code is free, features are worthless
An opinion piece argues that teams using AI coding tools like Claude, Cursor and Copilot risk diminishing software value by prioritizing code volume over meaningful features.
AI
I’m a CTO. AI still needs your human expertise | Madhu Shashanka
A CTO argues that AI, despite improving at complex tasks, remains unreliable at simple judgments, suggesting human expertise will remain essential in the workforce.
AI
Who should be held liable for the harms of self-evolving AI? The answer is clear
An opinion piece argues that deployers of self-evolving AI models should bear legal liability for harms, as labs lack control over how models are deployed and used.