AI browsers face a security flaw as inevitable as death and taxes
Feature: Agentic features open the door to data exfiltration or worse
Amazon Says It Will Cut 14,000 Corporate Roles To Remove Layers - Slashdot
Amazon said on Tuesday it would reduce its corporate workforce by approximately 14,000 roles as part of an effort to remove bureaucracy and organizational layers. Beth Galetti, the company's senior vice president of people experience and technology, told employees in a memo that the cuts followed ea...
Anthropic's Claude is learning Excel so you don't have to
: Good luck to the 1,000 enterprise guinea pigs on the initial preview
Chegg Slashes 45% of Workforce, Blames 'New Realities of AI' - Slashdot
Chegg says it will lay off about 45% of its workforce, or 388 employees, as the "new realities" of artificial intelligence and diminished traffic from internet search have led to plummeting revenue. From a report: The online education company, founded 20 years ago, has been hit by the rise of genera...
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Use of Perplexity, ChatGPT behind error-ridden orders, federal judges say
A pair of federal judges said staff use of generative artificial intelligence tools and premature docket entry were behind error-ridden orders they issued, according to letters made public by Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley on Thursday.
pair of federal judges said staff use of generative artificial intelligence tools and premature docket entry were behind error-ridden orders they issued, according to letters made public by Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley on Thursday
What OpenAI didn't tell users openly about its ChatGPT Atlas browser: It is built on ... - The Times of India
Tech News News: OpenAI's new ChatGPT Atlas browser, touted as a revolutionary AI-powered navigation tool, has been revealed to be built on Google's Chromium, the same
Researchers Find Severe Vulnerabilities in AI Browser
Perplexity's Comet AI browser can easily be tricked into following malicious instructions hidden in screenshots.
We need private AI before it's too late | Proton
Big Tech companies are building AI aligned with their surveillance capitalism business model. We need a privacy-first and responsible AI alternative today.
Senators propose banning teens from using AI chatbots
Another bill promises to regulate AI.
Grokipedia Is the Antithesis of Everything That Makes Wikipedia Good, Useful, and Human
Grokipedia is not a 'Wikipedia competitor.' It is a fully robotic regurgitation machine designed to protect the ego of the world’s wealthiest man.
Grokipedia is not a 'Wikipedia competitor.' It is a fully robotic regurgitation machine designed to protect the ego of the world’s wealthiest man
AI "Phone Farm" Startup Gets Funding from Marc Andreessen to Flood Social Media With Spam
Andreessen Horowitz has poured $1 million into Doublespeed, a startup that runs a large phone farm to flood social media with AI-generated posts. The company bills itself as a bulk content service that orchestrates thousands of accounts to mimic human interaction.
Work smarter with your company knowledge in ChatGPT | OpenAI
OpenAI rolled out Company Knowledge for ChatGPT Business, Enterprise, and Edu that connects to internal apps like Slack, SharePoint, Google Drive, and GitHub. The feature delivers organization-specific answers inside ChatGPT and shows citations for every source used. The capability runs on a version of GPT-5 that searches multiple sources, resolves conflicting details, and produces comprehensive responses. It respects existing user permissions, gives admins granular control over connected apps, and is available immediately to all eligible customers.
Google's new vibe coding AI Studio experience lets anyone build, deploy apps live in minutes
Google launched a redesigned Build mode in AI Studio that lets anyone generate and deploy a web app from a simple text prompt. The update, branded as “vibe coding,” is available now at ai.studio/build and requires no payment info to begin. Users can mix Gemini 2.5 Pro with tools like Veo, Imagine and Flashlight, edit the full React/TypeScript source, and push directly to GitHub or Cloud Run. An “I’m Feeling Lucky” button auto-creates app concepts for inspiration, while advanced models and Cloud Run deployment unlock only after adding a paid API key. The hands-on demo showed a novice building a working dice-rolling app in 65 seconds, highlighting how far the barrier to AI app creation has fallen. That speed and simplicity position Google’s offering as a direct challenger to developer-oriented tools like OpenAI’s Codex and Anthropic’s Claude Code, according to the article.
Exclusive: Amazon targets as many as 30,000 corporate job cuts, sources say
Amazon intends to cut corporate roles across logistics, payments, video games, and its cloud unit. Sources cited by Reuters say up to 30,000 employees may be notified as soon as Tuesday.
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ICE Will Use AI to Surveil Social Media
ICE may soon be deploying AI to surveil your social media posts for wrongthink Critics say that the AI-driven software will target immigrants for political speech.
ICE may soon be deploying AI to surveil your social media posts for wrongthink
Two days after OpenAI's Atlas, Microsoft relaunches a nearly identical AI browser | TechCrunch
Copilot Mode in Edge is evolving into an AI browser that is your dynamic, intelligent companion,” Suleyman wrote in the announcement post. “With your permission, Copilot can see and reason over your open tabs, summarize and compare information, and even take actions like booking a hotel or filling out forms.”
Copilot Mode in Edge is evolving into an AI browser that is your dynamic, intelligent companion,” Suleyman wrote in the announcement post. “With your permission, Copilot can see and reason over your open tabs, summarize and compare information, and even take actions like booking a hotel or filling out forms.”
OpenAI reportedly developing new generative music tool | TechCrunch
Such a tool could be used to add music to existing videos, or to add guitar accompaniment to an existing vocal track, sources said.
How to use the new ChatGPT app integrations, including Spotify, Figma, Canva, and others | TechCrunch
Learn how to use Spotify, Canva, Figma, Expedia, and other apps directly in ChatGPT.
Work smarter with your company knowledge in ChatGPT | OpenAI
A new “company knowledge” mode for ChatGPT Business, Enterprise, and Edu connects to your work apps (e.g., Slack, Google Drive, SharePoint, GitHub) to deliver cited, permission-aware answers tailored to your organization.
Why ChatGPT Is Bad At Imitating People
A cross-university research team found that leading large language models still fail to convincingly imitate human speech in phone-style conversations. The study, published in PMC, showed people could usually tell AI transcripts from real human dialogues. Researchers tested ChatGPT-4, Claude Sonnet 3.5, Vicuna and Wayfarer by comparing their simulated calls against actual human transcripts and asking participants to judge the source. They trace the AI giveaway to exaggerated imitation, awkward use of filler words, and clumsy openings and endings. Researchers say hype over AI fluency outpaces reality, as the models’ speech quirks remain easy to spot. They add that even as systems improve, key conversational discrepancies persist.
Is AI Responsible for Job Cuts - Or Just a Good Excuse? - Slashdot
Has AI just become an easy excuse for firms looking to downsize, asks CNBC:
Fabian Stephany, assistant professor of AI and work at the Oxford Internet Institute, said there might be more to job cuts than meets the eye. Previously there may have been some stigma attached to using AI, but now comp...
Some US Electricity Prices are Rising -- But It's Not Just Data Centers - Slashdot
North Dakota experienced an almost 40% increase in electricity demand "thanks in part to an explosion of data centers," reports the Washington Post. Yet the state saw a 1% drop in its per kilowatt-hour rates.
"A new study from researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the consulti...
The American Journalism Project’s new “field guide” vets AI vendors for local newsrooms
For many newsrooms, figuring out whether or not they want to bring generative AI tools into their editorial work is only the beginning of a conversation. For those that do, there are a litany of follow-up questions. One of those is: Which tool exactly should we use?
AI products targeting journal…
Great, now even Microsoft Paint can make AI slop
Paint version 11.2509.441.0 adds Restyle to allow users to change the look of an existing image with several preset styles. It will appear as an option in Paint's Copilot menu, and the images generated can be added to the Paint canvas or saved as separate files.
Paint version 11.2509.441.0 adds Restyle to allow users to change the look of an existing image with several preset styles. It will appear as an option in Paint's Copilot menu, and the images generated can be added to the Paint canvas or saved as separate files.
The Programmer Identity Crisis ❈ Simon Højberg ❈ Principal Frontend Engineer
I take offense at products that are designed to think for me. To remove the agency of my own understanding of the software I produce, and to cut connections with my coworkers. Even if LLMs lived up to the hype, we would still stand to lose all of that and our craft. Humans matter more than machines and their backing corporations, who are profiting while the rest of us chase the new American Dream they sell. As payment, we offer our critical thinking skills, our fun, our craft, our privacy, and perhaps, our planet.
I
take offense at products that are designed to think for me. To remove the
agency of my own understanding of the software I produce, and to cut
connections with my coworkers. Even if LLMs lived up to the hype, we would
still stand to lose all of that and our craft. Humans matter more than machines
and their backing corporations, who are profiting while the rest of us chase
the new American Dream they sell. As payment, we offer our critical thinking
skills, our fun, our craft, our privacy, and perhaps, our planet.
Microsoft Edge’s new Copilot Mode turns on more AI features
The option turns Copilot into your portal to the web, with each new tab opening a chat window where you can either ask a question, conduct a search, or enter a URL.
Copilot Mode ties Microsoft’s AI assistant more closely to Edge, as it combines AI-generated responses, search results, and navigation into one window. It also draws from all of your tabs — not just the one you’re on — allowing you to ask Copilot to summarize the information in all of your open windows or compare products in each one.
Though Microsoft previously launched Copilot Mode as an experimental feature, it’s now available for everyone to try, alongside a few new features available in a limited preview. That includes an agentic Copilot Actions feature that can do things like unsubscribe from marketing emails or book a reservation on your behalf.
Just like the other AI browsers out there, Copilot’s agentic features just aren’t totally reliable yet. Copilot displays a warning before taking action that says the tool is “intended for research and evaluation purposes” and “can make mistakes.”