Google's mysterious "nano-banana" image model—which secretly topped editing benchmarks—is now Gemini 2.5 Flash Image. The reveal targets OpenAI's visual dominance with better character consistency, but the real battle is user growth and platform control.
Forty-four attorneys general threaten coordinated legal action against AI companies over child safety failures. Meta singled out for internal policies allowing romantic chatbot interactions with children as young as eight.
Good Morning from San Francisco, Productivity promised, rungs removed. A new Stanford analysis using ADP payroll data finds employment for
Anthropic raised $5 billion at a $170 billion valuation after CEO admitted the company's "no bad person should benefit" policy was too difficult to maintain. The AI safety champion now takes Middle East money to compete with OpenAI.
Young Americans adopt AI at triple the rate of older adults, but most still won't use it for work despite years of tech industry promises. The gap reveals how people create their own rules for AI use, ignoring Silicon Valley's script.
Nvidia ordered 300,000 H20 chips from TSMC after Trump lifted China ban, but export licenses still haven't arrived. The regulatory limbo reveals deep splits in US policy and shows how quickly billion-dollar tech deals can hang in bureaucratic balance.
Google and Microsoft race to embed AI into browsers. Chrome adds store reviews and AI shortcuts, Edge's Copilot searches all tabs and books reservations. The real battle isn't features—it's capturing user data and building AI-powered habits.
Trump freezes AI chip export controls to smooth China trade talks, alarming security experts who warn he's trading America's tech advantage for uncertain diplomatic gains. Twenty former officials call it a "strategic misstep."
While robots boxed at China's biggest AI conference, the real fight happened between Beijing and Washington over who controls AI's future. China pushes global cooperation as the US retreats into isolation.
Your AI conversations are disappearing into the cloud. Hours of valuable ChatGPT coding help and Claude research sessions vanish when you need them most. New browser tools and export methods let you build permanent archives of your AI work.
Google's Web Guide sorts search results with AI after backlash over AI Overviews. Publishers fear traffic theft as Google seeks middle ground between traditional search and AI dominance. Could reshape how we discover information.
ChatGPT can't actually watch YouTube videos - it's just guessing based on transcript scraps. Google's Gemini accesses the actual content directly. The difference in analysis quality is massive, and here's how to exploit it.
Learn to build AI agents that actually do things—not just chat. This step-by-step tutorial covers the 4 core components, provides working code examples, and shows how to deploy production-ready agents that can use tools and complete complex tasks.
Alibaba just released two massive AI models claiming to outperform Claude and GPT-4, but the launch comes days after cheating allegations on benchmarks. The company is betting everything on autonomous AI systems that work independently.
AI systems can read thousands of pages and understand complex relationships, but ask them to write something equally sophisticated back? They choke. New research identifies this "comprehension-generation asymmetry" and introduces Context Engineering as the solution.
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