AI

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 →

The school year is in full swing, and students are turning to AI tools like Grammarly’s new AI Grader — an artificial intelligence feature that predicts whether a paper is likely to receive an A. Sounds helpful, right? Not so fast, says tech expert Shelly Palmer, Professor of Advanced Media in Residence at Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications. 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 →

Yesterday, Anthropic quietly dropped a bombshell. Unless users explicitly opt out by September 28, it will use consumer chat data to train future AI models. This is a stunning reversal from Anthropic's previous position as the privacy-first alternative to ChatGPT. Continue Reading →

Google launched a free version of its AI-powered video editor Vids yesterday, while keeping premium AI features behind paid subscriptions. Continue Reading →