Perplexity Brings Its Comet Browser to Android
Perplexity has released its AI‑powered Comet browser for Android, now available for download on the Google Play Store. The mobile app mirrors the desktop version, letting users summon the Perplexity AI assistant, use voice mode to chat about open tabs, and request on‑the‑fly summaries. While cross‑device sync of history and bookmarks is not yet supported, the company says it will roll out in the coming weeks, along with plans for a fully agentic voice mode and a native password manager.
Gemini 3 Refused to Believe It Was 2025, and Hilarity Ensued
Google released Gemini 3 on November 18, 2025, touting it as a breakthrough foundation model for reasoning. In a viral test, AI researcher Andrej Karpathy discovered the model still believed the current year was 2024 because it lacked 2025 training data...
ScaleOps' New AI Infra Product Slashes GPU Costs for Self-Hosted Enterprise LLMs by 50% for Early Adopters
ScaleOps unveiled an AI Infra Product that automates GPU allocation and scaling for enterprises running self‑hosted large language models and other GPU‑intensive AI workloads. The platform integrates with any Kubernetes distribution, cloud or on‑prem environment without code changes, using proactive...
Google’s Gemini Is Now on Android Auto
Google began rolling out its Gemini AI assistant to Android Auto users, letting drivers access a conversational voice interface for navigation, messaging, and errands via the Gemini app on their phone projected onto the car’s infotainment screen. Activation works through...
The Best Guide to Spotting AI Writing Comes From Wikipedia
Wikipedia’s volunteer editors have produced a public "Signs of AI writing" field guide as part of their Project AI Cleanup, offering concrete heuristics for spotting large‑language‑model‑generated prose. The guide notes that automated detection tools are largely ineffective and instead highlights...
AR Startup Viture Is Stealthily Working on New AI Glasses
AR startup Viture, operating under the Vonder brand, is preparing to launch its first AI-powered smart glasses, dubbed Vonder, with a target debut around CES 2026. FCC filings and a staging website reveal the device will likely move away from...
The DoorDash Problem: How AI Browsers Are a Huge Threat to Amazon
Amazon has filed a lawsuit against Perplexity AI, alleging that its Comet browser’s shopping agent violates Amazon’s terms of service and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act by automating purchases on the site. The legal action highlights the emerging "DoorDash...
Google Gemini Is Getting Better at Identifying AI Fakes
Google announced that Gemini can now identify whether an image was created or edited by a Google AI tool, letting users ask “Is this AI-generated?” within the app. The feature initially supports only images using Google’s SynthID watermark, but Google...
How to Turn Off AI in the Apps You Use Every Day
TechRadar contributor Becca Caddy outlines how users can limit or disable AI-driven features across a range of popular platforms, from Pinterest and Google Search to Gmail, Android, iOS, Samsung Galaxy, Microsoft Copilot, and Facebook. The guide provides step‑by‑step instructions for...
Google’s Nano Banana AI Image Model Goes Pro and Is Free to Try
Google has launched Nano Banana Pro, an upgraded image generation and editing model built on Gemini 3 Pro, now available for free trial worldwide through the Gemini app’s “Create image” feature. The model can blend up to 14 images, render...
How Cloud-Based Technology Is Helping Contact Centers Cut Carbon Emissions
Cloud‑based contact‑center‑as‑a‑service (CCaaS) enables firms to replace on‑premises PBXs, servers and office space with virtualized infrastructure hosted in optimized data centres, cutting energy use and e‑waste. The biggest emissions reduction comes from allowing agents to work remotely, eliminating most commuting...
Designing Digital Resilience in the Agentic AI Era
Enterprises are confronting a heightened need for digital resilience as agentic AI—autonomous systems that plan, reason, and act with minimal human input—moves from pilot projects to core operations. The technology’s speed, scale, and reliance on real‑time machine data (logs, metrics,...
Trump Administration Wants to Use Federal Power to Challenge State AI Laws
The Trump administration is drafting an executive order to create an AI Litigation Task Force that would challenge state AI regulations, targeting laws such as California’s new AI safety bill as “complex and burdensome.” The task force aims to remove...
ChatGPT Atlas Just Got Its First Major Update - 3 New Features You'll Want to Use
OpenAI rolled out the first major update to its ChatGPT Atlas browser on macOS, adding three practical features: iCloud Passkeys support for secure logins, the option to set Google as the default search engine, and a vertical tab layout with...
Creative Workers Love AI - but It Is Causing More Issues than Expected
A Dropbox study finds that creative professionals juggle an average of 14 digital tools, leading to workflow fragmentation and lost productivity. Better digital organization could boost performance by 54%, equating to roughly 1.5 extra days of creative work per employee...
Nokia Is Splitting Off Its AI Business, Weeks After $1bn Nvidia Investment
Nokia announced that, effective Jan. 1, 2026, it will split into two primary segments—Network Infrastructure and Mobile Infrastructure—while spinning off its AI‑focused mobile business to drive AI‑first networks such as 6G. The company targets a 6‑8% net‑sales CAGR through 2028...
How Data Centers Can Balance Growth with Environmental Responsibility
Data‑center investment in India is projected to exceed $100 billion by 2027, driving a surge in digital services but also raising sustainability concerns. Ashish Arora, CEO of Nxtra by Airtel, argues that sustainability must be embedded in every stage of data‑center...
Grok 4.1 Is Trying Too Hard to Impress – and ChatGPT 5.1 Makes It Look Easy
xAI’s Grok 4.1 and OpenAI’s ChatGPT 5.1 were pitted against each other in a three‑part informal test covering emotional intelligence, factual reliability, and personality consistency. Grok 4.1 delivered a more flamboyant, slang‑laden response to an emotional scenario and to a prompt about rainy...
Three Things to Know About the Future of Electricity
The International Energy Agency’s latest World Energy Outlook projects global electricity demand to surge 40% over the next decade, driven largely by rising air‑conditioning use and temperature increases that will add roughly 500 GW of peak load by 2035. While data‑center...
How to Move From ChatGPT to Claude (without Starting From Scratch)
TechRadar AI Week 2025 outlines a straightforward method for users to transition from ChatGPT to Anthropic's Claude without losing personalized context. Claude’s paid Pro and Max plans now include a Memory feature that can store user‑specific information, allowing a simple...
Ai2’s Olmo 3 Family Challenges Qwen and Llama with Efficient, Open Reasoning and Customization
The Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) has released Olmo 3, a new family of open-source large language models available in 7B and 32B variants with a 65,000-token context window, enhanced reasoning traces, and improved coding capabilities. Three versions—Olmo 3‑Think (flagship...
Introducing AnyLanguageModel: One API for Local and Remote LLMs on Apple Platforms
The post announces AnyLanguageModel, a Swift package that lets Apple developers swap the Foundation Models import for a unified API supporting local (Core ML, MLX, llama.cpp, Ollama) and cloud (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Hugging Face) LLM providers with minimal code changes. By...
AMD's FSR Redstone for Supercharged Gaming Debuts on December 10 – but It's RX 9000 only, Leaving Older Radeon GPUs...
AMD announced that its next‑generation upscaling suite, FSR Redstone, will launch on December 10 and will be supported exclusively on the upcoming Radeon RX 9000 (RDNA 4) GPUs. The AI‑driven features—Ray Regeneration, Radiance Caching, and Frame Generation—are designed to boost ray‑traced...
Nvidia Says Its AI GPUs Are Sold Out, Grows Data Center Business by $10B in a Single Quarter
Nvidia reported a record $57 billion in revenue for Q3 2026, driven by a $10 billion jump in its data‑center segment, which posted $51.2 billion—a 66% year‑over‑year increase. CEO Jensen Huang said the company has sold out of its Blackwell AI server chips, with the...
Google’s New Scholar Labs Search Uses AI to Find Relevant Studies
Google announced a limited‑beta AI‑driven search tool called Scholar Labs, designed to surface the most relevant scholarly papers by analyzing full‑text content, authorship, venue and citation recency rather than relying on traditional metrics. In a demo, the system returned a...
'Spicy' AI Chatbot And Image Generator Left Millions Of Photos Exposed
Secret Desires, an erotic AI chatbot and image generator, inadvertently exposed nearly two million photos and videos—including private images of influencers, public figures, and ordinary users—by leaving cloud‑storage containers unsecured, according to 404 Media. The leaked content, much of it...
Critics Scoff After Microsoft Warns AI Feature Can Infect Machines and Pilfer Data
Microsoft announced Copilot Actions, an experimental agentic feature for Windows that can automate tasks such as file organization, meeting scheduling, and email composition. The company warned that the feature is vulnerable to known large‑language‑model flaws, including hallucinations and prompt‑injection attacks...
Drone Maker Lets Robot Fly Drone to Prove It's Easy to Use and Scare the Heck Out of Us
Drone maker Antigravity showcased its new 360-degree A1 drone being piloted by Unitree’s G1 humanoid robot, demonstrating the drone’s intuitive Motion Controller and 8K immersive video capability. The $21,000 G1 robot, equipped with LiDAR and Intel RealSense depth sensors, appears...
OpenAI Debuts GPT‑5.1-Codex-Max Coding Model and It Already Completed a 24-Hour Task Internally
OpenAI has launched GPT‑5.1‑Codex‑Max, a new agentic coding model that replaces GPT‑5.1‑Codex as the default in its Codex developer environment. The model introduces a compaction mechanism that enables long‑horizon reasoning across millions of tokens, cutting token usage by about 30%...
Microsoft Warns Windows 11 AI Could Put Malware on Your PC
Microsoft announced new agentic AI features for Windows 11 Insider builds that can automate tasks such as email drafting and file sorting, but these capabilities are disabled by default and require user opt‑in. In a security advisory, the company warned that...
OpenAI Announces New ChatGPT for Teachers
OpenAI unveiled ChatGPT for Teachers, a dedicated workspace that gives educators unlimited access to the latest ChatGPT 5.1 Auto model, including search, file uploads, connectors, and image generation. The service, already deployed to 150,000 teachers across U.S. districts, features education‑grade privacy and...
The Google Search of AI Agents? Fetch Launches ASI:One and Business Tier for New Era of Non-Human Web
Fetch AI announced a trio of products—ASI:One, Fetch Business, and Agentverse—aimed at building an "Agentic Web" where personal AI assistants can securely coordinate with verified brand agents to execute multi‑step transactions. ASI:One serves as an orchestration layer that stores user...
Amazon Is Trialing Using AI to Generate Recaps for some of Your Favorite Prime Video TV Shows
Amazon Prime Video is beta‑testing a new AI‑driven “Video Recap” feature for select U.S. original series, including *Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan*, *Fallout*, *The Rig*, *Bosch* and *Upload*. The tool uses Amazon Bedrock models to analyze episodes, extract key scenes, and stitch them together...
Amazon’s Prime Video Is Getting AI-Generated Video Recaps for some TV Shows
Amazon Prime Video announced the beta rollout of AI-generated video recaps for select Prime Originals such as Fallout, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, and Upload. The generative‑AI system stitches together narration, dialogue, and music to produce theatrical‑quality season summaries, building on last year’s text‑based...
Lawmakers Want to Let Users Sue over Harmful Social Media Algorithms
Senators John Curtis and Mark Kelly introduced the Algorithm Accountability Act, a bipartisan amendment to Section 230 that would strip liability protections from for‑profit social‑media platforms with over a million users if their recommendation algorithms can be shown to have...
DeepMind’s Latest: An AI for Handling Mathematical Proofs
DeepMind unveiled AlphaProof, an AI system that achieved silver‑medalist performance at the 2024 International Mathematical Olympiad, scoring just one point shy of a gold medal. The system combines a multi‑billion‑parameter neural net, tree‑search, and a novel test‑time reinforcement learning (TTRL)...
This Viral AI Pen Didn’t Help Me Cheat
The Verge tested a $68.99 "AI Smart Pen" marketed on YouTube as a cheat device that scans printed test questions and returns AI-generated answers. In practice, the pen’s camera often failed to read text, and when it did, the answers...
How Louvre Thieves Exploited Human Psychology to Avoid Suspicion—And What It Reveals About AI
On October 19, 2025, four men disguised as construction workers used a furniture lift to access a balcony at the Louvre and stole crown jewels worth €88 million in under eight minutes, exploiting the museum’s reliance on visual categorization. The thieves’...
Target Joins OpenAI’s Growing List of Retail Apps
Target will launch a beta ChatGPT‑powered shopping app within the next week, allowing users to generate ideas, browse products, build multi‑item baskets, shop for groceries and complete checkout directly in the chat interface. The rollout expands OpenAI’s retail app portfolio,...
OpenAI Board Member Larry Summers Steps Down Amid Epstein File Revelations
Former Treasury Secretary and Harvard professor Larry Summers resigned from OpenAI’s board after a congressional release of Jeffrey Epstein’s email cache revealed intimate and inappropriate communications between Summers and Epstein. The emails, spanning November 2018 to July 2019, show Summers...
Cloud and AI Usage Is Still a Concern for Businesses - and the Worries Are only Set to Rise
AWS’s latest research shows that more than nine in ten companies worldwide plan to raise overall IT spending (93%), cloud spending (97%) and cybersecurity budgets (90%). While 56% of respondents view public cloud as more secure and 81% believe it...
CIOs Are Being Lumped with AI Responsibilities - and Many of Them Aren't Happy with That
Chief Information Officers are increasingly being tasked with AI responsibilities as enterprises move from pilot projects to large‑scale deployments, according to new Salesforce research. While three‑quarters of CIOs report greater confidence and 97% say they now understand AI better, collaboration...
The Download: De-Censoring DeepSeek, and Gemini 3
Quantum‑physics researchers at Spain’s Multiverse Computing have compressed DeepSeek R1 by 55% into a “Slim” version and stripped the Chinese‑mandated censorship layers, enabling the model to answer politically sensitive queries similarly to Western AI. Meanwhile, Google launched Gemini 3, a multimodal model...
I Tested Caira, the First Nano Banana AI Camera – Now I’m Cancelling My Lightroom Subscription
Camera Intelligence’s Caira, a Kickstarter‑backed Nano Banana AI camera, attaches to an iPhone via MagSafe and combines a Micro Four Thirds 11‑MP Sony sensor with Qualcomm Snapdragon and Google Edge TPU processors. It offers on‑device generative editing, voice control and...
Europe Is Scaling Back Its Landmark Privacy and AI Laws
The European Commission has unveiled a Digital Omnibus proposal that dilutes core elements of the GDPR and postpones key provisions of the AI Act. The changes would simplify cookie consent rules, allow broader use of anonymized personal data for AI...
As Lovable Hits $200M ARR, Its CEO Credits Staying in Europe for Its Success
Swedish AI‑assisted coding startup Lovable announced it has doubled its annual recurring revenue to $200 million within four months, reaching the milestone just four months after crossing $100 million in July. CEO Anton Osika attributed the rapid growth to the company’s decision...
Google Translate Is Getting a Big Upgrade that Could Make It the Killer Smart Glasses App
Google is embedding support for XR smart glasses into the Android version of Google Translate, as revealed by hidden code referencing "Glasses" as a playback device. The upcoming feature will extend the Live Translation service, allowing spoken translations to be...
Quantum Physicists Have Shrunk and “De-Censored” DeepSeek R1
Quantum‑inspired AI firm Multiverse Computing announced a 55% smaller version of the Chinese‑censored large language model DeepSeek R1, dubbed DeepSeek R1 Slim, that it claims retains near‑original performance while stripping out state‑mandated censorship. The team used tensor‑network compression, a technique borrowed from quantum...
AI Voice Fraud Is Exploiting Contact Centers
AI-generated voice cloning has moved from experimental demos to full production, with roughly one in three U.S. consumers reporting synthetic‑voice fraud in Q4 2024 and many incurring losses. Fraudsters now combine breached personal data with low‑cost text‑to‑speech and automated dialing to...
ACM SIGAI Autonomous Agents Award 2026 Open for Nominations
The episode announces the open call for nominations for the 2026 ACM SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award, highlighting its purpose to honor researchers whose current work significantly influences the autonomous agents field. Listeners are instructed on how to nominate candidates...