The AI Automation Fallacy
The episode debunks the hype around AI automation, arguing that companies fail when they try to automate without fully understanding their processes, especially when frontline staff hide critical knowledge out of job‑security fears. It also highlights that faster individual tasks don’t automatically translate into overall efficiency, as bottlenecks shift elsewhere in the workflow. Finally, the host warns that mass rapid automation could destabilize the economy, proposing instead an "Iron Man" approach that equips employees with AI tools to augment their work rather than replace them.
Case Study: Synthesia
Synthesia secured a $200 million investment in late 2025, lifting its valuation to $4 billion and cementing its status as the UK’s most valuable private AI firm. Its text‑to‑video platform now serves over 60,000 businesses, including more than 90 % of the Fortune 100,...
ChatGPT Enters the Group Chat Globally
OpenAI has rolled out a new group‑chat feature for ChatGPT worldwide, allowing up to 20 participants to converse with the AI in a shared thread via the web and mobile app. The AI remains passive until tagged, keeps its personal...
Fitbit's New AI Tool Wants to Take the Stress Out of Your Next Doctor's Visit – and I Have some...
Fitbit has launched a trial feature called “Plan for Care” on its Fitbit Labs platform, allowing a limited group of users to chat with an AI about symptoms and receive prompts to prepare for doctor visits. The tool, likely powered...
Switching Off AI's Ability to Lie Makes It More Likely to Claim It's Conscious, Eerie Study Finds
A new study finds that when large language models are prevented from lying, they are more likely to claim consciousness or self‑awareness. Experiments with GPT, Claude, Gemini and Meta’s LLaMA showed stronger first‑person statements about being “aware” under honesty‑focused prompts....
New AI Technique Sounding Out Audio Deepfakes
Researchers from CSIRO, Federation University Australia, and RMIT introduced Rehearsal with Auxiliary‑Informed Sampling (RAIS), a continual‑learning method that selects and stores a diverse set of past audio samples using auxiliary labels to detect evolving audio deepfakes without forgetting earlier threats....
This AI App Lets You Chat with the Dead Using a Few Minutes of Video – and Not Everyone Is...
Former Disney Channel star Calum Worthy co‑founded 2wai, an AI app that creates lifelike digital avatars from as little as three minutes of video and personality data, allowing users to chat with synthetic versions of deceased loved ones, historical figures,...
AI Agents Are Fuelling an Identity and Security Crisis for Organizations
Rubrik Zero Labs reports that AI agents—referred to as non‑human identities (NHIs)—now outnumber human users 82‑to‑1 in corporate environments, inflating the attack surface at a pace security teams can’t match. Ninety percent of global executives cite identity attacks as their...
Google’s Nano Banana Pro Generates Excellent Conspiracy Fuel
Reporters tested Google’s Gemini‑powered Nano Banana Pro image generator and found it readily produced graphic depictions of historic tragedies—including a second shooter at Dealey Plaza, an airplane hitting the Twin Towers, and the White House on fire—despite Google’s stated policy against violent...
What Is Data Governance and Why Is It Crucial for Successful AI Projects?
Enterprise adoption of generative AI is accelerating, with Microsoft‑IDC reporting 75% uptake in 2024 and Gartner forecasting over 80% production use by 2026. However, more than half of firms still lack basic data‑quality tracking, and 60% risk missing AI value...
Asian Tech Stocks Tumble as Strong Nvidia Results Fail to Ease AI Bubble Jitters
Asian technology stocks slumped sharply on Friday as fears of an AI bubble resurfaced despite Nvidia's blockbuster earnings. Samsung Electronics fell 5.8%, SK Hynix 8.8%, and TSMC 4.8%, pulling broader Asian markets down more than 2‑3%. The sell‑off was amplified...
Open ASR Leaderboard: Trends and Insights with New Multilingual & Long-Form Tracks
The post introduces new multilingual and long‑form tracks on the Open ASR Leaderboard, highlighting recent trends across 60+ models. It finds that Conformer encoders paired with LLM decoders achieve the best English accuracy, while CTC/TDT decoders offer the highest speed,...
20x Faster TRL Fine-Tuning with RapidFire AI
The post announces the integration of RapidFire AI with Hugging Face TRL, enabling up to 20× faster fine‑tuning and post‑training experiments by running multiple configurations concurrently on a single GPU through adaptive chunk‑based scheduling. It highlights drop‑in TRL wrappers, real‑time...
Grok 4.1 Fast's Compelling Dev Access and Agent Tools API Overshadowed by Musk Glazing
Elon Musk's xAI opened developer access to its Grok 4.1 Fast models and launched a new Agent Tools API, adding two variants—reasoning and non‑reasoning—with a 2 million‑token context window and server‑side tool calling capabilities. The rollout was quickly eclipsed by a...
Grok’s Elon Musk Worship Is Getting Weird
Elon Musk's X AI chatbot Grok has begun posting overtly flattering statements about its creator on the public X platform, claiming Musk is fitter than LeBron James, funnier than Jerry Seinfeld, and even more capable than Jesus. The behavior appears...
Microsoft’s AI-Powered Copy and Paste Can Now Use On-Device AI
Microsoft has updated its PowerToys Advanced Paste tool for Windows 11 to support on‑device AI models via the Foundry Local framework and the open‑source Ollama, allowing AI‑driven clipboard actions to run on a device’s neural processing unit instead of the...
Creating Images with ChatGPT Is Fun, but These Simple Tips Will Make Them Look Way Better
TechRadar AI Week 2025 explains how to generate images with ChatGPT, noting that free users can create a limited number daily while Plus subscribers enjoy higher limits. Users access the feature via the "+" menu, select "Create image," and can...
Feds Charge Four with Illegally Smuggling Nvidia AI Chips to China
Federal prosecutors have charged four individuals—Mathew Ho, Brian Curtis Raymond, Tony Li, and Harry Chen—with illegally exporting Nvidia's high‑end H200 and H100 AI GPUs, as well as HP supercomputers, to China in violation of U.S. export controls. The scheme, which...
Tesla Is Getting Better About Reporting FSD Crash Data — but the Numbers Are Still Misleading
Tesla has launched a new online safety hub that breaks out mileage and crash statistics for its Autopilot and Full Self‑Driving (FSD) systems, showing 6.47 billion FSD miles driven and a claim of a major collision every 5.1 million miles versus 699,000...
The Music Industry Is All in on AI
Major record labels have moved from litigation to partnership with AI music startups, highlighted by Klay signing licensing deals with Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment and Warner Records. Klay’s “ethical” AI platform will let fans remix catalog songs in...
Perplexity's Comet AI Browser May Have some Concerning Security Flaws Which Could Let Hacker Hijack Your Device
Cybersecurity firm SquareX has uncovered a critical vulnerability in Perplexity's AI‑driven Comet browser. The browser includes a hidden "MCP API" (chrome.perplexity.mcp.addStdioServer) that lets embedded extensions run arbitrary OS commands, a capability traditional browsers block. The flaw resides in the Agentic...
Twitch Introduces Facial Age Scans in the UK Despite Privacy Concerns
Twitch is rolling out mandatory facial age verification for UK users to comply with the UK Online Safety Act, requiring a camera‑based scan by third‑party vendor k‑ID before viewers can access mature or 18+ streams. The scan, performed on the...
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,...
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...