AI

According to multiple reports, SpamGPT is an underground tool being sold on dark-web forums as a turnkey “spam-as-a-service” platform. Think Mailchimp for criminals. Instead of helping brands send newsletters, it’s designed to help attackers launch large-scale phishing campaigns. Continue Reading →

Yesterday, Google rolled out 10 new AI-powered features, calling it "the biggest upgrade to Chrome in its history." Google's strategy is clear: integrate Gemini into Chrome to evolve Google into a transaction-oriented answer engine. Continue Reading →

At the Axios AI+ Summit, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei confirmed something I learned over the past few weeks: Claude is now helping to build Claude. Continue Reading →

OpenAI is building a system to estimate whether a ChatGPT user is under 18. If it thinks you are, it will change how the product works. Continue Reading →

OpenAI just dropped a comprehensive study of consumer AI usage and the findings fundamentally challenge what we thought we knew about AI adoption. Continue Reading →

The debate over AI and its role in creative industries often centers on one question: Can AI ever be as creative as humans? While it’s tempting to philosophize about inspiration and ingenuity, this line of inquiry misses a crucial point: If the audience can’t tell the difference between AI-generated and human-generated content, or if they don’t care, for all practical purposes, there is no difference. Continue Reading →

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 →