Anthropic released 11 open-source plugins for Claude Cowork, and one of them may have been responsible for wiping $285 billion off software, legal tech, and data analytics stocks in a single trading session. Continue Reading →
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OpenAI released the Codex app for macOS, which lets developers run multiple AI coding agents simultaneously, each working on separate tasks in isolated copies of the same codebase. Continue Reading →
Last night, my AI assistant responded to a family group text without my permission. My assistant, seeing a message without context, introduced itself: "Hey, this is CB, Shelly's AI assistant. I don't have context for what you're referring to..." I shut it down immediately. Continue Reading →
I spent the past week with ClawdBot (formerly called MoltBot, now called OpenClaw) an AI assistant that runs 24/7 on my own infrastructure. The project involved a cloud server, a Mac mini, VPN networking, multiple OAuth integrations, and enough troubleshooting to fill a graduate seminar. The assistant now works beautifully. Getting there was harder than anyone on social media is admitting. Continue Reading →
Google is rolling out Project Genie, an AI that generates interactive 3D worlds from text prompts or images. Describe what you want to see, and Genie creates an environment you can explore in real time. Continue Reading →
Chrome will now browse the web for you. Auto Browse, powered by Gemini 3, is an agentic feature that navigates websites, fills out forms, compares options, and completes multi-step tasks on your behalf. If you subscribe to Google AI Pro or Ultra, you can ask Chrome to research hotels, compare flight prices, schedule appointments, collect tax documents, or manage subscriptions while you do something else. Continue Reading →
Two of the most consequential people in artificial intelligence have both recently urged us to take the implications of AI seriously. Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, and Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, are the people actually building the systems that will shape our future. Continue Reading →
Walking along the railroad tracks up to the main building at Birkenau was chilling. I was about to enter the largest of the 40 Nazi extermination camps and sub-camps that made up the Auschwitz complex, and its reputation preceded it. Continue Reading →
I used a custom-built agentic workflow to fact-check an article I was writing about Apple's reported $5 billion deal with Google to power Siri with Gemini. The AI verified every claim as accurate. It was wrong about the most important one. Continue Reading →
eBay updated its User Agreement this week to explicitly ban third-party AI agents from making purchases without permission. The new terms, effective February 20, prohibit "buy-for-me agents, LLM-driven bots, or any end-to-end flow that attempts to place orders without human review." Continue Reading →