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Anthropic's Claude can now automatically "remember" details from previous conversations without requiring users to prompt it each time. The enhanced memory feature, currently rolling out exclusively to Team and Enterprise subscribers, brings Claude to parity with OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini, both of which already offer cross-chat memory features. Continue Reading →

Yesterday, a coalition of major publishers (including Reddit, Yahoo, Medium, and Quora) announced their support for Really Simple Licensing (RSL), a new open standard that lets web publishers set machine-readable licensing terms for AI crawlers. The initiative, led by RSS co-creator Eckart Walther and former Ask.com CEO Doug Leeds, aims to solve one of the web's most pressing problems: how to get AI companies to pay for the content they scrape. Continue Reading →

Apple's “Awe Dropping” iPhone 17 launch was Apple's littlest event in recent memory. Our friends in Cupertino delivered a little bigger screen, a little longer battery life, a little faster processor, a little better camera, and very little about AI. They were right about one thing: I was in awe of how little there was to care about. Continue Reading →

OpenAI announced it's backing "Critterz," a feature-length animated film created largely with generative AI tools, targeting a debut at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2026. The project will complete production in nine months instead of the typical three years, with a budget under $30 million compared to the $100+ million typical for animated features. Continue Reading →

Singapore-based Sapient Intelligence just open-sourced their Hierarchical Reasoning Model (HRM), and the AI community is buzzing about a 27-million-parameter model that beats Claude, OpenAI's o3-mini, and DeepSeek R1 on certain reasoning benchmarks. The headlines scream breakthrough. The reality demands nuance. Continue Reading →

Google rolled out Veo 3 in Google Photos' Create tab yesterday. The update lets users generate four-second AI videos from still images with one click. Free users get daily limits, while paid subscribers get more. The Create tab also includes 3D restyling, automated collages, keyword-based highlight reels, and GIF creation. Continue Reading →

AI-powered Pizza? Yes. Ooni (the makers of my favorite outdoor pizza oven) has announced an AI-powered indoor version called the Volt 2. This is actually more exciting than the AI-powered GE Profile Smart Indoor Smoker I got after seeing it at CES. Continue Reading →

Google will get to keep Chrome, avoiding the most severe remedy the Justice Department sought after finding Google illegally monopolized search markets last year. Continue Reading →

Researchers at Wharton just proved ChatGPT falls for the same psychological tricks that work on humans. Using Robert Cialdini's classic persuasion techniques, they convinced GPT-4o Mini to break its own rules with alarming consistency. Continue Reading →

The question arrives with clockwork predictability after every keynote I deliver: "If AI is eliminating entry-level positions, how do we develop tomorrow's senior executives?" Parents at the Newhouse school ask the same question with barely concealed panic. Fortune 500 CEOs frame it more diplomatically, but everyone sees the trend, the traditional corporate ladder is quickly losing its bottom rungs? Continue Reading →