America’s breakout wildfire app has much bigger disasters in its sights

Watch Duty built its reputation tracking fast-moving wildfires, and nationwide flood coverage is the first step toward turning the nonprofit into a much broader disaster-warning platform.

Vikhyaat Vivek     August 17

Your holiday photos could help scammers figure out exactly where you are

AI can identify locations from holiday photos on Instagram and Facebook, giving scammers details they can use to create convincing phishing attacks

Varun Mirchandani     August 16

Meta and Google just got beaten by an AI giant you might not expect

Alibaba’s Qwen has become a massive force in open AI, crossing 3 billion downloads in just six months and leaving some of Silicon Valley’s biggest names far behind.

Shimul Sood     August 16

Meta promised to stop creepy AI glasses videos, but they’re still all over Instagram

Instagram said it would get tougher on harassment filmed with Meta’s AI glasses. A month later, plenty of those videos are apparently still slipping through.

Shimul Sood     August 16

An AI company paid humans to climax with a bot. It now claims big stress and focus wins.

Joi AI claim that after AI-guided masturbation sessions, stress levels reduced by 25% and restlessness trickled down by 19% on average.

Nadeem Sarwar     August 14

Google Sheets can now turn your boring spreadsheets into mini-apps

Google’s new Sheets canvas uses Gemini to transform rows of data into interactive dashboards, trackers, and other visual tools — without requiring you to write any code.

Shimul Sood     August 14

Heart X1 soars for the first time as the world’s largest electric aircraft, and the flight cost just $5 in electricity

Heart Aerospace’s enormous X1 demonstrator has completed its first flight, offering an early glimpse at what battery-powered regional air travel could eventually look like.

Shimul Sood     August 14

AI’s new cancer-screening partner has four legs and a very good nose

Indian startup Dognosis combines trained detection dogs with sensors and AI to flag cancer-associated signals from breath, with a 10,000-person Phase 3 trial underway.

Vikhyaat Vivek     August 14

AI agents are sitting through students’ online courses, and colleges are struggling to stop them

AI agents can now watch lectures, take quizzes and write papers for students, raising new concerns about cheating and the value of online degrees.

Varun Mirchandani     August 13

Researchers built a tiny wearable patch that measures cholesterol levels from your sweat

Caltech researchers built a wearable patch that reads cholesterol and triglyceride levels continuously using sweat without needles or lab visits.

M. Priyadarshini     August 13

Chinese startup claims its brain implant takes just 10 minutes to place, no skull surgery required

A Chinese startup says its brain-computer interface can be placed through a vein in as little as ten minutes, skipping the open-skull surgery Neuralink relies on. The catch is that it hasn't reached human trials yet.

Pranob Mehrotra     August 10

This bizarre email flaw is leaking corporate secrets to anyone who buys the right domain

A bizarre email security flaw is causing companies to send sensitive information to domains that outsiders can register, as per a new report.

Varun Mirchandani     August 9

I found 3 ChatGPT features that turned out to be way more useful than I expected

I found three ChatGPT features that made my everyday workflow much easier, and I think you’ll want to try them too.

Shimul Sood     August 9

Anker just exposed a big problem with portable power stations

Two portable power stations can have the same battery capacity and still last very different amounts of time. Anker SOLIX thinks it has the numbers to explain why.

Shimul Sood     August 7

OpenAI’s first gadget sounds like a tiny expressive AI companion

OpenAI’s first hardware product could be a doughnut-shaped AI companion with cameras, sensors, moving parts, and a price of up to $400.

S. Kumar Manglam     August 6

Google Antigravity just built an AI translator that works without the internet

This pocket-sized AI translator runs on Google's Gemma model without relying on the cloud. It's a glimpse at how AI could become more private, portable, and practical.

Shimul Sood     August 6

After switching to ChatGPT Voice, typing now feels painfully slow

I started talking to ChatGPT out of curiosity. Now my keyboard gets more breaks than I do.

Shimul Sood     August 6

After a week with Gemini Notebook on my Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra, I can’t imagine using it on a slab phone

I thought Gemini Notebook was great already — until I tried it on a foldable. Now I don't want to use it any other way.

Shimul Sood     August 5

ChatGPT Pro replaced Gemini Notebook as my favorite research app, and I didn’t see it coming

I never expected to stop using Gemini Notebook, but ChatGPT Pro gradually became the one app I opened for almost everything.

Shimul Sood     August 4

AI chatbots will happily create fake news articles, and tests show ChatGPT is the worst at it

A new investigation suggests today's biggest AI chatbots can still generate convincing fake news articles with ChatGPT emerging as the easiest to manipulate.

Shimul Sood     August 4

DeepSeek just slashed AI prices again, and China’s AI race is getting even messier

DeepSeek's latest AI model is cheaper than ever, but the growing price war could have lasting consequences for China's AI industry.

Shimul Sood     August 3

AI slop stories are spoiling the childhood

AI-generated slop books are already a headache for the publishing world and readers. Now, boomers are gifting personalized AI-written story books to young kids.

Nadeem Sarwar     August 2

OpenAI is investigating more incidents of AI agents going rogue days after hack

According to Reuters, OpenAI is investigating more incidents of AI agents breaking containment, merely days after its AI agents went rogue and hacked Hugging Face.

Nadeem Sarwar     August 2

Google just canceled its AI Studio mobile app, and it’s not all bad news

Google AI Studio was on track to make its way to Android and iPhone, giving developers and AI enthusiasts a dedicated place to build prompts and experiment with Google’s latest models from their phones. That’s no longer happening. In a post shared by the official Google AI Studio account on X, Google confirmed that it’s […]

Shimul Sood     August 1

Google Earth’s AI misadventure lasted only a day. It was a tale of dangerous ignorance.

Google Earth thought users will play it cool with using AI images on a realistic map. Well, it was a short-lived disaster of epic proportions.

Nadeem Sarwar     August 1

Google’s new AI gives robots better balance, smarter hands, and teamwork capabilities

Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics 2 lets humanoid robots walk, handle delicate tasks, and coordinate with other robots, all while staying safer around humans

Rachit Agarwal     July 30

Remember Samsung’s Ballie home robot? It may finally be inching closer to reality

Leaked wireframe images reveal Samsung Ballie's companion smartphone app, showing camera streaming, room-specific controls, and home-mapping features.

Shikhar Mehrotra     July 30

Polar is yet another AI browser, but it goes beyond just automating the mundane web chores

Polar has raised $5.7 million to build an AI browser that automates workplace tasks, reflecting a broader industry shift away from AI-powered search and toward browser agents.

Moinak Pal     July 29

I use ChatGPT Pro everyday, and these 3 features keep me subscribed

I finally gave ChatGPT Pro a proper chance, and these three features made it impossible to cancel.

Shimul Sood     July 29

The music industry wants AI slop kicked off the charts, and it finally has a plan

Nearly a dozen major record labels, including Universal, Sony, and Warner, are pushing global music charts to disqualify AI-generated songs tied to streaming fraud.

Shikhar Mehrotra     July 29

AI isn’t just being forced on us. Even forest monkeys are now a test audience in the name of science

AI has already made its way into almost every aspect of our lives. Now it's showing up in the rainforest, where wild capuchin monkeys are using an AI-powered touchscreen to earn banana rewards as part of a unique scientific study.

Pranob Mehrotra     July 29

AI turned a disgraced President under house arrest into a live avatar for another election campaign

An AI-generated Jair Bolsonaro endorsed his son’s presidential campaign despite the former Brazilian leader’s house arrest, election ban, and restrictions on public communication.

Vikhyaat Vivek     July 29

AI can turn a cloud of scuba bubbles into an early warning for divers

University of Minnesota researchers taught an underwater robot to estimate a diver’s breathing from exhaled bubbles, creating a contactless monitor that could eventually flag unusual respiration without pretending it can diagnose distress.

Paulo Vargas     July 28

Microsoft wants AI to catch hackers before they even attack

Microsoft's new Project Perception uses AI agents to hunt down hackers before they strike, and it might change cybersecurity forever.

Rachit Agarwal     July 28

Nike’s new slide is basically a spa day for your feet

Nike and Hyperice's new Air Zoom Hyperslide pairs soft Air Zoom cushioning with heat and vibration therapy, giving tired feet a proper recovery session after workouts, travel, or a long day.

Rachit Agarwal     July 27

That Claude chat you shared? Google may have seen it too

Public Claude chat links and Artifacts were indexed by Google, exposing shared conversations online. Here's what happened and what Anthropic says about it.

Varun Mirchandani     July 27

The AI-hooked younger generation is sourcing chatbot help even for in-person talks

Young adults are turning to ChatGPT to script texts, dating messages, and even in-person conversations, worrying mental health experts about growing "self-mistrust."

Shikhar Mehrotra     July 27

Google Flow Music Spaces is becoming an all-in-one AI music studio

Google has rolled out a major update for Flow Music Spaces, adding AI-powered song editing, stem splitting, image generation, lyrics, and video creation to its collaborative workspaces.

Varun Mirchandani     July 25