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Chrome’s enhanced autofill can now pull info from Gmail to help you fill out forms

Following improvements made to Chrome's enhanced autofill last year that included your name, passport number, email address, and physical ad…

Meta says it’ll probably delay its controversial new business terms again

Meta says it may push the implementation of its new business terms past November 20th as it faces backlash from publishers over concerns abo…

xAI is buying out homeowners who promise not to sue over data center noise

A subsidiary of Elon Musk's xAI is offering to buy up homes in a Mississippi neighborhood, as long as residents don't join a lawsuit targeti…

Voters in Texas agree: They hate data centers

Ask Texas NAACP president Gary Bledsoe what it's been like to see data center developers descend upon Austin and its surrounding suburbs and…

Meta quietly launched an ‘AI pet journal’ app

Meta has launched a "tamagotchi-style" pet game called Waddle World, with virtual creatures that chat with users and create doodles to illus…

Researchers are getting tired of OpenAI gatekeeping its breakthroughs

On Monday, OpenAI announced impressive breakthroughs in mathematics, computer science, and physics, along with what the company says is an e…

VisionQuest is what happens when AI really goes rogue

In Marvel's VisionQuest, a superpowered robot tries to better understand humanity by getting lost in elaborate, digital daydreams in which h…

Anthropic’s elaborate plan to keep Wall Street at bay

Anthropic wants to have it both ways. With its impending IPO, it wants to tap the vast riches of the public markets and insists it doesn't w…

Firefox’s Smart Window adds AI form filling and webpage monitoring

Mozilla is updating Smart Window - Firefox's AI-powered browsing experience - with a new feature that can help you fill out online forms bas…

Google’s next Genie AI model generates more realistic experiences

Google announced today its Genie 4 world model for generating interactive experiences using AI. The company says the model has four main upd…

Apple is adding an AI chatbot to Pages, Keynote, and Numbers

Apple is bringing an AI assistant to its suite of productivity apps, including Keynote, Pages, and Numbers. The assistant, which is built on…

Data center backlash is uniting America

If there's one issue that seems to activate all kinds of voters in 2026, it's data centers. The rapid buildout of these massive server stora…

OpenAI announces three big science discoveries and a new way to work with academics

Less than a month after its mass release of hundreds of manuscripts that it said contained solutions to long-standing mathematics questions,…

Anthropic is burning gas to feed the AI boom

As it prepares to go public, Anthropic's S-1 filing makes generative AI's methane dependency glaringly obvious. "Competition for access to e…

The RealReal won’t let AI agents hog designer clothing

The RealReal, a secondhand luxury fashion consignment retailer, said it's updating its bot defense system, effectively making it harder for…

Five weird details from Anthropic’s IPO filing

Anthropic has finally filed its S-1 prospectus with the SEC, a document designed to give investors a look under the hood of its business, fr…

Microsoft offers buyouts to 60,000 employees

Microsoft is offering voluntary buyouts to up to 60,000 employees across the US, UK, Canada, and India. In a message to employees, Microsoft…

Kevin Roose is AGI-pilled. Why aren’t you?

Today, I’m talking to Kevin Roose, journalist and author of the new book The AGI Chronicles, which details the recent and explosive transfor…

Anthropic’s IPO filing lays out a plan to ‘revolutionize every area of human endeavor’ with AI

Anthropic has filed its S-1 prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission, preparing the company behind Claude to beat OpenAI to th…

Can AI help solve the COBOL code crisis?

What do the IRS, banks, airlines, and government infrastructure around the world have in common? They're all running on systems propped up b…