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Published on September 23, 2026 at 3:15 PM Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Unsplash Meta is currently testing a feature that allows AI to make phone calls on your behalf. In some cases, the AI agent could delegate a call to a human. The latter will then make the call based on the instructions the user has provided to the AI. Such a practice inevitably raises privacy concerns. On September 8, Meta officially rolled out its new model, called Muse, in the United States.

OpenAI has added a new feature for businesses to ChatGPT. Much like with Google Maps, users can now verify themselves there as the owner of a business and then provide information about it. GPT users can then chat with the business’s information via a “Business Agent.” Continue reading after the ad The functionality is very reminiscent of Google Maps. On their own business page in ChatGPT, businesses can enter key information such as their phone number, we

Shutterstock / Futurism The “fair use” doctrine under the US Copyright Act of 1976 allows for copyrighted materials to be used for purposes like criticism, journalism, and research. Whether something is deemed fair use depends on several factors, including how transformative it is, how much of the work is used, and whether the reproduction alters the market value of the original. It’s the keystone of the AI industry’s legal defense in a litany of ongoing l

Shutterstock / AV-Ylanne Finish environmental authorities are in a rage over Google’s $15 billion data center projects after the discovery that company contractors had chopped down some 330 hectares of government-protected forests, seemingly without a permit. According to Agence France-Presse, the Finnish Supervisory Agency (LVV) demanded that the Google-affiliate company Tuike Finland Oy “immediately suspend… all preparatory measures that would significan

Drew Hallowell/Getty Images An Anthropic AI model submitted a bogus tip about an unsolved murder to the Philadelphia police, in a blunder the department called “unacceptable.” The unspecified model, not unlike an unscrupulous prankster, submitted the fake info about the cold case through PhillyUnsolvedMurders.com on July 18. Anthropic, however, didn’t find out about it until September 28 — and further waited until October 8 to inform police about what happ

Search engine optimization, or SEO, is a big business. While some SEO practices are useful, much of the day-to-day SEO wisdom you see online amounts to superstition. An increasingly popular approach geared toward LLMs called “content chunking” may fall into that category. In the latest installment of Google’s Search Off the Record podcast, John Mueller and Danny Sullivan say that breaking content down into bite-sized chunks for LLMs like Gemini is a bad id

Shutterstock / Futurism Anthropic has long tried to distinguish itself from its neck-in-neck competition by posturing itself as the adult in the room: a responsible company that’s willing to put its money where its mouth is, slow down AI development when the risks outweigh the benefits, and teach its Claude model a code of ethics. As the New York Times reported last month, the company has even sought out religious scholars to discuss its efforts to instill

Alphabet, Google’s parent company, and several other Silicon Valley giants are having a rough week on Wall Street. Shares of major tech companies have plunged in recent days as investors grow increasingly concerned about how much money they’re spending on AI and when and if those investments will pay off. Alphabet, for example, had its worst day ever on the stock market Thursday, with shares plunging more than 12% and wiping roughly $500 billion off the co

Published on October 21, 2026 at 2:00 PM Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Netflix Netflix was riding the fall’s tech-thriller wave with the hacking of Hugging Face by OpenAI agents. The victim, for its part, finds the film next to the billboard and makes it very publicly known. The documentary AI Gone Wild, 27 minutes long, has been available on Netflix since October 12. The film reconstructs the July attack on the artificial intelligence platform: agents designed by O

At the Context level, the system looks like this. The customer writes, and an operator sometimes steps in.Outside: a model provider, an order store, a delivery service, a payment system, and a knowledge base with articles.Context level: a support system among people and external systemsC4, level 1. The external systems are not ours; we only call them. This works in the demo. Problems begin when there is more than one client. The history is kept in process

Chris Phillips, vice president for education at Google, told The New York Times that “Search and AI are deeply integrated,” so if a student’s school doesn’t opt in to using AI tools like Gemini, then students “will not have access to search, and they’ll see a message from their school that indicates it’s not available.” Even as Google made this announcement on a busy Election Day, several left-leaning politicians took time to speak up about their concerns.

Axiom Math is betting math can avoid that fate, not by slowing down, but by standing on firmer ground. The $1.6 billion startup wants to build a verified foundation that AI agents can rely on to write software and, eventually, do science. On Wednesday, the company announced it had formally verified the Stacks Project, one of the largest bodies of mathematics ever written by humans. Mathematicians often hold Stacks in rare regard — Columbia mathematician Pe

@Andy342(Andy 33)A Game for Finding the Bald One Among Lots of EggsJavaScriptSolo DevelopmentAIGame Development0Last updated at 2026-11-09Posted at 2026-11-09 [Solo Development] I Made “EGG HUNT CLUB,” a Surreal Web Game Where You Search for “the Bald One” Among Lots of Eggs Introduction I summarized the overview, appeal, and technical highlights of **“A Game for Finding the Bald One Among Lots of Eggs (EGG HUNT CLUB),”** a simple yet surreal browser game

We aired our first-ever television ad during the Super Bowl to pique people’s curiosity and help us all realize how AI can open up new possibilities for us, create more fulfillment in our lives, and make us more productive, just as all the tools that came before AI did for those who came before us.