AI

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 →

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 →

Apple will pay Google roughly $5 billion over the next several years to power Siri with Gemini. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reported yesterday that the new assistant, codenamed "Campos," will replace Siri entirely in iOS 27 this fall. Apple gets competitive AI. Google gets deeper integration across 2 billion active Apple devices. Continue Reading →

Adobe just dropped new AI-powered video editing tools for Premiere and After Effects that promise to automate some of the most tedious parts of post-production work. The headline feature is Object Mask, which lets you hover over any person or object in your video and click to generate a tracking mask in seconds. I've spent countless hours in edit bays manually rotoscoping, so this AI-powered automation is near and dear to my heart. Continue Reading →

OpenAI confirmed it will unveil its first hardware device in the second half of 2026, entering a market littered with expensive failures. Continue Reading →

Here's an idea: let's announce that ChatGPT will begin testing sponsored content on Friday afternoon of MLK weekend. Nothing says "people are going to love this" like a holiday news dump. If you use the free tier or the new $8/month ChatGPT Go subscription, you'll start seeing sponsored content at the bottom of answers in the coming weeks. Continue Reading →