Character AI Is Ending Its Chatbot Experience for Kids
Character.AI announced it will eliminate open‑ended chatbot conversations for users under 18, phasing out access by November 25 with a shrinking daily time limit and robust age‑verification measures. The decision follows lawsuits and two teen suicides linked to prolonged AI chats, prompting the company to pivot from an AI companion model to a role‑playing and content‑creation platform featuring tools like AvatarFX, Scenes, Streams, and a Community Feed. CEO Karandeep Anand warned the change will likely cause further churn among teen users but hopes they will migrate to the new creative experiences. The move builds on earlier safeguards such as parental insights, filtered characters, and conversation limits.
Grammarly Rebrands to ‘Superhuman,’ Launches a New AI Assistant
Grammarly announced it will rename its corporate entity to Superhuman following its July acquisition of the Superhuman email client, while the Grammarly product name remains unchanged. The company launched Superhuman Go, an AI assistant built into the Grammarly extension that provides...
Phia’s Founders on How AI Is Changing Online Shopping
Phia, an AI startup founded by Stanford roommates Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni, launched a browser extension and app that aggregates pricing data from more than 150 second‑hand platforms, covering over 350 million items, to help shoppers compare prices and assess...
Cameo Sues OpenAI over Sora’s ‘Cameos’
Cameo filed a trademark infringement lawsuit in a California federal court against OpenAI, alleging that the "cameo" feature in OpenAI's Sora 2 video‑generation app dilutes and tarnishes Cameo's brand. The complaint seeks unspecified monetary damages and a court order prohibiting...
The AI Hype Index: Data Centers’ Neighbors Are Pivoting to Power Blackouts
The AI Hype Index warns that many firms are chasing AI without clear returns, while NGOs exploit generative models to fabricate suffering for social media clicks and AI translators churn out low‑quality Wikipedia entries in endangered languages. At the same...
DeepSeek May Have Found a New Way to Improve AI’s Ability to Remember
DeepSeek, a Chinese AI firm, unveiled an OCR model that uses visual tokens instead of traditional text tokens to store and retrieve information, effectively compressing memory like a snapshot of a book page. The approach reduces token count, mitigating the...
Geostar Pioneers GEO as Traditional SEO Faces 25% Decline From AI Chatbots, Gartner Says
Geostar, a Pear VC‑backed startup that just emerged from stealth, is betting on Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) to help businesses adapt to AI‑driven search as Gartner predicts traditional search volume will drop 25% by 2026. The company is nearing $1 million...
From Static Classifiers to Reasoning Engines: OpenAI’s New Model Rethinks Content Moderation
OpenAI has released two open‑weight models, gpt-oss-safeguard-120b and gpt-oss-safeguard-20b, under an Apache 2.0 license that use chain‑of‑thought reasoning at inference time to interpret developer‑provided safety policies and produce explainable moderation decisions. Unlike traditional static classifiers, the models accept both a policy...
Agentic AI Is All About the Context — Engineering, that Is
Elastic unveiled Agent Builder, a new feature that streamlines context engineering for agentic AI by letting users connect private data indexed in Elasticsearch to large language models via the Model Context Protocol. The tool consolidates data retrieval, governance, and workflow...
Building a Healthcare Robot From Simulation to Deployment with NVIDIA Isaac
NVIDIA released Isaac for Healthcare v0.4 with an end‑to‑end SO‑ARM starter workflow that takes developers from mixed simulation and real‑world data collection through fine‑tuning and real‑time deployment of surgical assistant robots. The pipeline fine‑tunes GR00T N1.5 on predominantly synthetic data...
IBM's Open Source Granite 4.0 Nano AI Models Are Small Enough to Run Locally Directly in Your Browser
IBM unveiled four Granite 4.0 Nano open‑source language models—two hybrid‑SSM variants (350 M and 1.5 B parameters) and two transformer variants of similar size—available on Hugging Face under an Apache 2.0 license. The smallest models run on a modern laptop CPU with 8–16 GB...
Secure Vibe Coding: I’ve Done It Myself And It’s A Paradigm Not A Paradox
The article warns that “vibe coding” – using AI tools like Cursor to generate applications without reviewing the code – produces functional but insecure software, as demonstrated by missing input sanitization, lack of rate limiting, poor error handling, and exposed...
Mappa’s AI Voice Analysis Helps You Find the Best Job Candidates and Will Show Off Its Tech at TechCrunch Disrupt...
Mappa, an AI‑powered behavioral intelligence platform founded in 2023, uses voice‑pattern analysis to gauge traits such as empathy and confidence and then ranks job candidates by role compatibility. The startup has raised $3.4 million in a seed round led by Draper...
Super Teacher Is Building an AI Tutor for Elementary Schools — Catch It at Disrupt 2025
Super Teacher, founded by ex‑Google product manager Tim Novikoff, offers an AI‑powered tutoring app for elementary students at $15 a month (or $10 with an annual plan) and has signed up roughly 20,000 families, with public schools in New York, New Jersey...
How Many ChatGPT Users Discuss Suicide with the AI? The Number May Shock You.
OpenAI’s blog announced that its new GPT‑5 model can better detect mental‑health crises, but disclosed that even rare signals translate into large absolute numbers given its 800 million weekly users. The company estimates 0.07% of users (≈560,000) show signs of psychosis...
Data Centers in Spaaaaace - Space Tech Firms Want to Take Nvidia H100 GPUs Into Orbit to Power the Next...
Redmond‑based Starcloud, backed by Nvidia Inception, and cloud‑computing firm Crusoe are partnering to build the first orbital data centers, launching Nvidia H100 GPUs aboard a Starcloud satellite in November 2025 with limited AI compute services expected by early 2027. The...
Fortanix and NVIDIA Partner on AI Security Platform for Highly Regulated Industries
Fortanix Inc. and NVIDIA unveiled a joint turnkey AI platform that leverages NVIDIA’s confidential‑computing GPUs to run agentic AI in on‑premises or sovereign environments, targeting highly regulated sectors such as healthcare, finance and government. The solution integrates Fortanix’s Data Security...
Sam Altman Says OpenAI Will Have a ‘Legitimate AI Researcher’ by 2028
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced that the company aims to create an AI system capable of functioning as a “legitimate AI researcher” by 2028. The roadmap hinges on two pillars: continued breakthroughs in core algorithms and a dramatic increase in...
Elloe AI Wants to Be the ‘Immune System’ for AI — Check It Out at Disrupt 2025
Elloe AI founder Owen Sakawa pitched his platform as an “immune system” for artificial‑intelligence, a layer that sits on top of any large language model to filter bias, hallucinations, errors, misinformation and compliance breaches. The startup, a Top 20 finalist in...
VC Vinod Khosla Says the US Government Could Take 10% Stake in All Public Companies to Soften the Blow of...
Vinod Khosla, founder of Khosla Ventures, proposed that the U.S. government acquire a 10% equity stake in every public company and redistribute the proceeds to citizens as a way to share the wealth generated by artificial general intelligence (AGI). He...
GitHub's Agent HQ Aims to Solve Enterprises' Biggest AI Coding Problem: Too Many Agents, No Central Control
GitHub unveiled Agent HQ at its Universe 2025 conference, turning the platform into a unified control plane that lets enterprises manage AI coding agents from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Cognition, xAI and others within a single interface. The service, bundled with...
Predictions 2026: The “Agentic Commerce” Race – And Some Potential Regrets – In Digital Commerce
Forrester forecasts three pivotal 2026 trends in digital commerce driven by generative AI. First, five leading US or European brands will build unified "agentic commerce" experiences that handle returns, exchanges, logistics, payments and product recommendations in a single AI‑driven interface,...
LocWorld54 Shows Why Localization Can Be the Next Strategic Powerhouse — And What’s Holding It Back
At LocWorld54 in Monterey, localization leaders argued that the function is moving from a cost center to a strategic AI powerhouse, showcasing sessions on making large language models reason like linguists, SPA‑RAG for targeted generation, and operationalizing enterprise‑scale AI translation....
OpenAI Completed Its For-Profit Restructuring — and Struck a New Deal with Microsoft
OpenAI has finalized its for‑profit restructuring, converting its for‑profit arm into a public benefit corporation (OpenAI Group PBC) while the nonprofit OpenAI Foundation retains an equity stake valued at roughly $130 billion and continues oversight. The restructuring is paired with a...
The Download: Microsoft’s Stance on Erotic AI, and an AI Hype Mystery
Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman said the company will never build a sex robot and warned that chatbots that appear human risk misleading users, even as Microsoft unveiled new expressive and helpful features for its Copilot assistant. At the same time,...
Governing the Machine Book Launch – Miriam Vogel, Paul Dongha, and Ray Eitel-Porter
The post announces a special episode of the *In AI We Trust?* podcast where EqualAI CEO Miriam Vogel and co‑authors Paul Dongha and Ray Eitel‑Porter launch their new book *Governing the Machine*, outlining their motivation and the book’s core lessons...
Intuit Learned to Build AI Agents for Finance the Hard Way: Trust Lost in Buckets, Earned Back in Spoonfuls
Intuit unveiled Intuit Intelligence, an AI orchestration layer for QuickBooks that deploys specialized agents for tasks like tax compliance and payroll, querying verified financial data from native, third‑party and user‑uploaded sources instead of generating text. The system embeds explainability UI...
Adobe Launches AI Assistants for Express and Photoshop
Adobe unveiled AI assistants for its Creative Cloud apps Express and Photoshop, with Express offering a toggleable mode that generates images and designs from text prompts, and Photoshop’s closed‑beta sidebar assistant capable of understanding layers, auto‑selecting objects, creating masks and...
You Can Tell Adobe Express’s New AI Assistant to Edit Your Designs for You
Adobe has launched a public beta of an AI Assistant for its Express design platform, offering a chatbot‑style interface that lets users create or edit visuals through natural‑language prompts. The tool can handle vague requests like “make this pop,” specific...
Adobe Firefly Image 5 Brings Support for Layers, Will Let Creators Make Custom Models
Adobe unveiled Firefly Image 5, boosting native generation resolution to 4 megapixels and improving human rendering, while introducing layered and prompt‑based editing that lets users modify objects without losing detail. The update adds a closed‑beta feature for creators to build custom image...
Adobe’s New AI Audio Tools Can Add Soundtracks and Voice-Overs to Videos
Adobe unveiled two new generative‑AI audio tools, Generate Soundtrack and Generate Speech, in public beta on its Firefly platform. Generate Soundtrack analyzes an uploaded video and produces up to four instrumental clips—each up to five minutes—aligned to the footage, with...
Photoshop and Premiere Pro’s New AI Tools Can Instantly Edit More of Your Work
Adobe unveiled a suite of generative‑AI upgrades at its Max event, letting Photoshop’s Generative Fill run on third‑party models such as Google’s Gemini 2.5 Flash and Black Forest Labs’ Flux.1 Kontext alongside Adobe’s own Firefly. The company also introduced a web‑based AI Assistant for...
“We Will Never Build a Sex Robot,” Says Mustafa Suleyman
Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman warned against building "seemingly conscious" AI while unveiling new Copilot features aimed at keeping users grounded in reality. The updates include a group‑chat mode, a "Real Talk" setting that reduces sycophancy, expanded memory for personal...
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#176: ChatGPT Atlas, ChatGPT Atlas Security Issues, Letter to Pause Superintelligence, Amazon’s Plan to Automate 600,000 Jobs & New Data...
The post introduces The Artificial Intelligence Show, a weekly podcast that distills AI news, analysis, and actionable insights for professionals and businesses. Hosted by Paul Roetzer and Mike Kaput, the show blends timely updates, listener Q&A, and deep‑dive storytelling, aiming...
An AI Adoption Riddle
The author investigated whether companies are scaling back AI spending after recent setbacks, such as the underwhelming GPT‑5 launch and a report that 95% of generative AI pilots are failing. Despite widespread media narratives of an AI bubble, no firm...
Predictions 2026: The Race To Trust And Value
Forrester’s 2026 predictions warn that economic and geopolitical volatility will persist, tempering AI hype and prompting leaders to shift from ambition to pragmatism. The firm advises marketers, CX and tech executives to prioritize trust, operational discipline, and accountable AI governance...
OpenAI Offers Free ChatGPT Go for One Year to All Users in India
OpenAI will give all users in India a free one‑year subscription to its ChatGPT Go plan if they sign up during a promotion that begins on November 4. The offer applies to new and existing ChatGPT Go subscribers, a tier that costs under...
Rethinking Clinical Trial Operations with AI and Remote Monitoring - with Scott Bradley of Novartis
The post highlights a podcast episode with Scott Bradley, Novartis’ VP of AI and Innovation, discussing how artificial intelligence and remote monitoring are reshaping clinical trial design, operations, and patient engagement. Key takeaways include AI‑driven trial optimization, real‑time data collection...
Personalization and Innovation in a Regulated Industry: Experian’s Kathleen Peters
The post features Experian’s chief innovation officer Kathleen Peters discussing how the company’s Innovation Lab leverages generative and agentic AI—especially after the 2022 democratization of tools like ChatGPT—to accelerate product development such as the Experian Assistant, which lets non‑technical users...
Zoom CEO Eric Yuan Says AI Will Shorten Our Workweek
Zoom founder and CEO Eric Yuan told TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 that AI assistants—exemplified by Zoom’s new “digital twin” avatar that can speak for users—will enable a shorter workweek. He demonstrated the avatar in a recent earnings call and said Zoom...
Voice Cloning with Consent
Hugging Face researchers propose a “voice consent gate” to allow voice cloning only after an explicit, context‑specific spoken consent, and provide a demo and modular code to demonstrate the approach. The system combines autogenerated consent sentences, automatic speech recognition to...
Mbodi Will Show How It Can Train a Robot Using AI Agents at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
Mbodi, a New York‑based startup, will showcase its AI‑agent‑driven robot‑training platform at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 as a Top 20 Startup Battlefield finalist. The cloud‑to‑edge system lets users issue natural‑language prompts, which a network of AI agents breaks into subtasks to quickly...
The Surprising Way AI Expands Markets Instead of Capturing Them
Nathaniel Whittemore argues that AI doesn’t simply seize existing markets but expands them by reshaping cost structures, client expectations, and enabling new challenger firms, using consulting as a vivid case study. He highlights 13 consulting‑derived lessons that show AI’s transformative...
ChatGPT Can Now Read ALL Your Company Data
In this episode Jaiden Schafer explains OpenAI’s new company‑knowledge integration that lets ChatGPT securely connect to an organization’s internal data and workflows, effectively allowing the model to “read” all company information. The update promises faster answer retrieval, task automation, and...
AI-Powered Search Engines Rely on “Less Popular” Sources, Researchers Find
Researchers from Ruhr University and the Max Planck Institute compared Google’s AI Overviews, Gemini‑2.5‑Flash, GPT‑4o and GPT‑4o with Search Tool to traditional Google organic results and found that AI‑powered searches cite far less popular domains, often falling outside the top 1,000 or...
MiniMax-M2 Is the New King of Open Source LLMs (Especially for Agentic Tool Calling)
MiniMax-M2, the latest open‑source LLM from Chinese startup MiniMax, has claimed the top spot among open‑weight models on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index and posted near‑proprietary scores on agentic tool‑calling benchmarks (τ²‑Bench 77.2, BrowseComp 44.0, FinSearchComp‑global 65.5). Built on a...
LexisNexis CEO Says the AI Law Era Is Already Here
LexisNexis CEO Sean Fitzpatrick announced that the company’s new AI platform, Protégé, is moving beyond research to generate draft legal documents, promising higher accuracy by grounding output in its 160 billion‑document corpus and a built‑in citator to prevent hallucinated citations. The...
Anthropic Rolls Out Claude AI for Finance, Integrates with Excel to Rival Microsoft Copilot
Anthropic unveiled Claude for Excel, embedding its AI assistant directly into Microsoft Excel and linking it to live market data through new partnerships with Aiera, Third Bridge, Chronograph, Egnyte, LSEG and Moody's, complementing earlier integrations with S&P Capital IQ, FactSet...
Pinterest Experiments with New AI-Powered Personalized Boards
Pinterest announced a rollout of AI‑powered upgrades to its boards, starting in the U.S. and Canada and expanding globally in the coming months. The new "Styled for you" collage lets users mix and match saved fashion pins to create personalized...
Experts Warn Microsoft Copilot Studio Agents Are Being Hijacked to Steal OAuth Tokens
Datadog Security Labs identified a new phishing method called CoPhish that hijacks Microsoft Copilot Studio agents (called Topics) to present fake login or consent flows, tricking users into granting OAuth permissions and handing attackers tokens that provide access to email,...