AI

A new study published in Harvard Business Review confirms what every high-performer already suspects: AI tools don't reduce work, they intensify it. Researchers Aruna Ranganathan and Xingqi Maggie Ye spent eight months studying a 200-person tech company and found that employees who adopted AI worked faster, took on more tasks, and extended their hours, all without being asked. Continue Reading →

OpenAI has begun testing ads in ChatGPT for U.S. users on the Free and Go tiers. Sponsored results appear below ChatGPT's responses, clearly labeled and targeted to the conversation topic. Paid subscribers (Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, Education) see nothing. Continue Reading →

OpenAI just launched Frontier, an enterprise platform that lets companies build, deploy, and manage AI agents across their organizations. OpenAI calls them "AI coworkers" to shift the budget conversation. If enterprises treat agents like employees, AI spending moves from IT to operations. OpenAI gains access to a different budget holder and a larger addressable market. Continue Reading →

Google's Gemini app now has more than 750 million MAUs (monthly active users), up from 650 million before the Gemini 3 launch in mid-November. CEO Sundar Pichai said Gemini 3 Pro "has seen the fastest adoption of any model in our history." Continue Reading →

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 →

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 →

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 →