Meta’s New AI Asked for My Raw Health Data—and Gave Me Terrible Advice
…Google also lets you upload medical data to Fitbit for its AI health coach to parse. Handing over this kind of data to any AI tool is a risky decision, even if…
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Google's AI Search Results Love to Refer You Back to Google
…While Google has some deals with news publishers, it does not appear to pay sites for appearing in the outputs of AI Overviews or AI Mode. Online publishers, which Google pulls data…
Palantir Demos Show How the Military Could Use AI Chatbots to Generate War Plans
…Since 2017, Palantir has been the primary contractor behind Project Maven, also known as the Algorithmic Warfare Cross-Functional team, a Defense Department initiative for deploying AI in war settings. For the…
The Race Is on to Keep AI Agents From Running Wild With Your Credit Cards
AI agents may soon be buying your stuff for you. The FIDO Alliance has teamed up with Google and Mastercard to try to ensure that shopping in the near future isn't…
Demis Hassabis Thinks AI Job Cuts Are Dumb
…it comes to AI coding, which has emerged as a crucial and lucrative application for the latest AI models. Anthropic and OpenAI lead developer adoption with their respective tools, Claude and Codex…
Google Search Goes Agentic—and Doesn’t Need You Anymore
…An expanded version of that tool, which Google says is a way to create “super widgets” and “mini apps,” will be available first for Google AI plan subscribers in the US this…
Do You Actually Need to Pay for Transcription Software?
…And most AI enthusiasts are already paying for OpenAI, Claude, or Google's Gemini, any of which can handle the post-processing part of Wispr Flow. So can free local tools like…
Artificial Intelligence Sneaks Into the World Cup Thanks to Google Gemini
…Google has not detailed exactly what internal tools Argentina will use, but the intention is clear: The World Cup will be a stress test for Google’s AI in the high-pressure…
Using AI for Just 10 Minutes Might Make You Lazy and Dumb, Study Shows
…Bakker says it may be necessary to rethink how AI tools work so that—like a good human teacher—models sometimes prioritize a person’s learning over solving a problem for them…
Pentagon’s ‘Attempt to Cripple’ Anthropic Is Troubling, Judge Says
…The Department of Defense, which now calls itself the Department of War (DoW), has argued that it followed procedures and appropriately determined that Anthropic’s AI tools could no longer be relied…