Taika Waititi and Jenna Ortega's sci-fi film, Klara and the Sun, offers a chilling warning about AI being used to replace people in a society obsessed with perfection.

Anthropic has unveiled Claude Duet, a new work-focused AI agent that can monitor connected apps, handle background tasks, and keep working after you step away.

Google's Personal Intelligence lets Gemini draw on your apps to give you useful insights while driving such as flight updates, appointment directions, and restaurant suggestions that match your preferences.

The new privacy-centric feature is available now for every ChatGPT user, from the free tier to the Go, Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Education plans.

Could a selfie reveal clues about a cancer patient’s survival risk? Researchers have developed an AI model that estimates biological age and predicts mortality risk, using facial photographs of a patient.

Spotify is stepping up its fight against AI-generated music spam, with millions of tracks filtered out and new tools designed to help listeners discover genuine artists.

Homeland Security has pulled DeepSeek from federal civilian systems, and Beijing says Washington is stretching the idea of national security.

ChatGPT Slides helps users create editable presentations from conversations, files and outlines, with collaborative editing and exports to PowerPoint, PDF and Google Slides.

A new study finds that AI models trained on junk social media posts develop brain rot, skipping reasoning and picking up bad ethics.

Gemini Notebook’s new co-create option lets you pick topics, choose styles, and review the outline before your slide decks and video overviews are generated.

Google is changing how you get help with its products. Its new “Ask Google Help” experience offers shorter answers and interactive troubleshooting instead of traditional support articles.

Researchers at MIT gave Claude a virtual island to explore, and it started inventing games, testing physics, and discovering tricks that helped it perform better later.

The ICMP claims AI models have been trained on songs by Kylie Minogue and Nick Cave without paying them. Now, Australia's copyright laws are at the center of a growing dispute over AI training.

A new study finds that popular AI chatbots exhibit different personality traits when responding in English and Mandarin, raising questions about how language shapes their behavior.

Meta has revised controversial website crawling terms, removing the word “train” after legal experts questioned whether publisher content could be used for AI training.

You can try ChatGPT without creating an account in supported regions. Here's how to get started, what you can do without logging in, and when a free account may be worth creating.

An OpenAI AI agent ran out of test cryptocurrency while working on a coding task, then used funds from another wallet without permission. The incident involved Ethereum’s test network, but it raises questions about what AI agents might do when they run into roadblocks.

AI’s growing appetite for electricity is putting pressure on power supplies. Firma Power simplifies the process of securing renewable energy, helping data centers find suitable projects and giving clean-energy developers more opportunities.

ChatGPT can now read Chrome tabs, compare websites and complete browser tasks through Work mode. OpenAI has also added 13 voices and improved Hindi support.

Meta has released Muse Spark Open, its most capable open-weight model yet, and it can run entirely on two Apple M5 Ultra Mac Studios.

Google AI Plus subscribers are losing manual Pro model selection. A shared email gives a November 13 cutoff, while retaining that choice means moving to a subscription that costs roughly four times as much.

Apple Intelligence has finally received approval in China, with a test version arriving later this month and a broader December rollout reportedly planned without Siri AI.

Henry Yuan’s open-source project uses a roughly $7 board to let AI navigate an iPhone without jailbreaking it, though model access and setup requirements make it more involved than the price suggests.

Google is rolling out new Android scam defenses that can automatically hide login and payment information during screen sharing, strengthen Messages protection, and stop apps from secretly enabling call forwarding.

These are the best AI tools of 2026 for chat, research, image and video generation, coding, voice, photo editing, and everyday productivity.

IdeaLens examines the ideas behind research papers instead of just their words, potentially giving editors a new way to identify AI involvement without mislabeling human-written work.