2025-08-06

Exclusive: Google Gemini adds AI tutoring, heating up the fight for student users

The new tool, and a $1 billion initiative to improve AI education for college-age Americans, will compete against OpenAI’s recently added ChatGPT Study mode. [...]

2025-08-06

How social media users are using AI vision boards and ‘life trailers’ to manifest their dream lives

AI tools like ChatGPT and Freepik are helping TikTokers visualize—and even realize—their ideal futures in creative new ways. [...]

2025-08-06

Character.AI launches social feed to let users interact, create, and share with AI personas

The new Character.AI feed brings social media-style features to its app, allowing users to post chat snippets, share AI-generated videos, and cocreate content with over 100 million virtual characters. [...]

2025-08-06

Google wants you to be a citizen data scientist

The company’s new fleet of AI agents are designed to turn you into a “strategic orchestrator.” Are you ready to be the “human in the loop”? [...]

2025-08-05

Google DeepMind's Genie 3 can dynamically alter the state of its simulated worlds

At start of December, Google DeepMind released Genie 2. The Genie family of AI systems are what are known as world models. They're capable of generating images as the user — either a human or, [...]

2025-08-05

Cloudflare vs. Perplexity: A web-scraping war with big implications for AI

Cloudflare claims the AI startup is bypassing robots.txt restrictions to scrape content, potentially exposing Perplexity to lawsuits from publishers like Dow Jones and the BBC. [...]

2025-08-05

Watch AI models compete right now in Google's new Game Arena

As AI models increasingly ace conventional tests, researchers are looking for new benchmarking methods. Google is betting on games. [...]

2025-08-05

Illinois is the first state to ban AI therapists

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has signed a bill into law banning AI therapy in the state. This makes Illinois the first state to regulate the use of AI in mental health services. The law highlights th [...]

2025-08-05

OpenAI's first new open-weight LLMs in six years are here

For the first time since GPT-2 in 2019, OpenAI is releasing new open-weight large language models. It's a major milestone for a company that has increasingly been accused of forgoing its original [...]