Andrew Tarantola

Former Computing Writer

Andrew Tarantola is a journalist with more than a decade reporting on emerging technologies ranging from robotics and machine learning to space science, medicine, green energy and automated transportation. He has been a contributor to Digital Trends on the AI and Machine Learning beat since July. He has previous bylines at Engadget, where he worked as a senior editor for eight years, and Gizmodo, where he worked as a senior editor for four. He holds bachelor's degrees in Economics and Political Science from the University of California, Irvine. Andrew became interested in technology after reading the Time Life series, Understanding Computers, in 2nd grade and watching the OG Ghost in the Shell in 7th. He spends his off-work hours reading LitRPG, gardening, boxing, bow hunting, canning, and hiking.

Apple Intelligence is playing catch-up, here’s what you need to know

Apple Intelligence is Apple's take on AI, and it's coming to a device near you very soon.

Guides         October 31, 2025

What is Perplexity? Everything you need to know about the ‘answer machine’

Never click a web search link again. Here's everything you need to know to get started using Perplexity AI.

Guides         October 31, 2025

How to use Microsoft’s Copilot AI

Dive in to unlock the full potential of Microsoft's Copilot and transform the way you work.

Guides         August 14, 2025

Anthropic Claude: How to use the impressive ChatGPT rival

Anthropic's Claude AI chatbot may not be flashy, but it is one of the most capable models on the market. Here's how to harness it for fun and profit.

Guides         February 24, 2025

Anthropic’s new Claude model offers both real-time and long-pondered responses

Anthropic announced the release of its latest iteration of its Claude AI, one that can provide both real-time and long-pondered answers to user queries.

News         February 24, 2025

Meta rolls out its AI chatbot to nearly a dozen Middle Eastern nations

Meta announced Monday that it is making its Meta AI chatbot available to millions of users throughout the Middle East and North Africa.

News         February 24, 2025

OpenAI’s Operator agent is coming to eight more countries

OpenAI's Operator AI agent is coming to more than a half dozen countries, though you'll still need to pay $200 per month to access it.

News         February 21, 2025

Spotify now offers its listeners AI-narrated audiobooks

Spotify is teaming up with vocal AI startup ElevenLabs to bring digitally-narrated audiobooks to Findaway Voices.

News         February 20, 2025

Grok vs. Midjourney: Here’s how the two AI image generators compare

Midjourney and Grok are two of the premiere AI image generators available today. Which is better for you?

Guides         February 20, 2025

Google’s AI can now tell you what to do with your life

Google is rolling out a new AI tool to help users figure out what jobs suit them best based on their interests and experience.

News         February 19, 2025

The Gemini app is now the only way to access Google’s AI on iOS

Google Google announced Wednesday that it is removing its model from the Google app on iOS, meaning that Apple users will need to download the dedicated Gemini app in order to use it. When Google first introduced its Gemini AI to the Apple product ecosystem, it did so through its existing Google App, which had […]

News         February 19, 2025

Meta’s new ‘Llamacon’ event is all about open-source AI

Meta Connect returns in September but will be preceded by the new Llamacon AI conference in April.

News         February 18, 2025

What is Mistral’s Le Chat?

Mistral's Le Chat is Europe's open-source answer to ChatGPT, here's everything you need to know about it.

Guides         February 18, 2025

Our reliance on AI-generated news could lead to more bank runs, per new report

European financial institutions are raising the alarm over the potential effects of AI-generated fake news reports, according to a new study.

News         February 14, 2025

Adobe Lightroom and Camera Raw are getting two new AI editing features

Adobe is rolling out a pair of AI features for Lightroom and Camera Raw designed to help with tedious and repetetive photo editing tasks.

News         February 12, 2025

OpenAI nixes its o3 model release, will replace it with ‘GPT-5’

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced Wednesday that there will be no standalone o3 model release because it's getting rolled into whatever GPT-5 is going to be.

News         February 12, 2025

Trump Administration wants the US to produce the ‘most powerful’ AI chips

JD Vance spoke at the Paris AI Action Summit on Wednesday and promised to make US semiconductor manufacturing great again.

News         February 12, 2025

Adobe releases its first commercially safe Firefly video generating AI

Adobe Firefly is gaining the ability to generate audio and video clips in resolutions up to 4k,

News         February 12, 2025

Sam Altman doesn’t think Elon Musk is ‘a happy person’

OpenAI CEO had some strong words for his corporate nemesis, Elon Musk, during a Bloomberg TV interview Tuesday.

News         February 11, 2025

A Musk-backed group just offered a $97 billion unsolicited bid for OpenAI

In the latest salvo of the six-year-long feud between Sam Altman and Elon Musk, a group backed by the latter just made a $97 billion bid for OpenAI.

News         February 10, 2025

ChatGPT o1 vs. o3 vs. 4o: Which should you use?

There are more than a half-dozen versions of OpenAI's various large language and reasoning models. Here's what you need to know about each.

Guides         February 7, 2025

Amazon plans to spend an estimated $100 billion on AI in 2025

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy revealed to investors Thursday that the company plans to spend more than $100 billion in capital expenditures on AWS and AI development in 2025.

News         February 7, 2025

Turns out, it’s not that hard to do what OpenAI does for less

While Hugging Face cloned OpenAI's Deep Research in 24 hours, a multi-institutional team of researchers built an o1 competitor for just $50.

News         February 6, 2025

Sundar Pichai says even more AI is coming to Google Search in 2025

Google looks to incorporate AI features more deeply into its Search products in 2025 as part of its $75 billion AI plan, CEO Sundar Pichai told investors Wednesday.

News         February 5, 2025

Everything you need to know about OpenAI’s browser-based agent, Operator

OpenAI's Operator promises to abolish browser-based drudgery, here's everything you need to know about the AI agent and when you'll be able to try it for yourself.

Guides         February 5, 2025

European Union issues guidance on how to not violate the AI Act’s ‘prohibited use’ section

The European Commission has issued guidance to companies on how they can ensure their generative models don't violate the AI Act's section on prohibited uses.

News         February 4, 2025

OpenAI expands in Asia with Kakao and Softbank partnerships

OpenAI announced strategic partnerships with South Korea's KakaoTalk and Japan's SoftBank that will see significant collaboration on new Enterprise AI models.

News         February 4, 2025

Adobe’s new AI assistant will finally demystify your phone contract

Adobe is offering a $5/month AI add-on that can scan, analyze, and summarize legal contracts with a single click.

News         February 4, 2025

ChatGPT’s latest model is finally here — and it’s free for everyone

OpenAI released its o3-mini reasoning model to all users (including free tier) on Friday.

News         January 31, 2025

Google’s “Ask for Me” will have an AI schedule your next oil change

Google released a new experimental AI agent that can set up nail salon and automotive shop appointments nearly automatically.

News         January 30, 2025

The U.S. finally put its foot down on AI image copyright

The US Copyright Office has released new guidance on what protections AI generated art may enjoy, and there aren't many.

News         January 30, 2025

Stargate Project: everything you need to know about OpenAI’s $500 billion gamble

OpenAI's Stargate Project promises to build AI data centers and clean energy facilities across the U.S., creating 100,000 jobs. But will those promises be kept?

Guides         January 29, 2025

DeepSeek: everything you need to know about the AI that dethroned ChatGPT

Chinese startup DeepSeek has been taking the AI industry by storm with a new chatbot rivaling ChatGPT and Gemini that uses a fraction of the power, time, and money to train and operate.

Guides         January 29, 2025

Chatbots are going to Washington with ChatGPT Gov

OpenAI has debuted a new product for the US government, based off Enterprise, that it calls ChatGPT Gov.

News         January 29, 2025