Why AI can’t replace the creative struggle.
A novelist who used an LLM to draft a sequel chapter found the output true to her voice but ultimately insufficient, concluding that AI cannot replace the human creative struggle. The author, who also…
ChatGPT is a conversational AI assistant developed by OpenAI, launched in November 2022. It became the fastest-growing consumer application in history and popularised large language models for mainstream use.
A novelist who used an LLM to draft a sequel chapter found the output true to her voice but ultimately insufficient, concluding that AI cannot replace the human creative struggle. The author, who also…
The Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company published AIUC-1, a standard for AI agents covering data privacy, security, safety, reliability, accountability, and societal risk, with contributions …
Google now lets eligible Gemini users import memory-like context and chat history from other AI platforms, including ChatGPT and Claude, marking progress in AI portability. However, an engineer argues…
Google said Tuesday, Aug. 11, that its Gemini app reached 1 billion monthly active users, up from 950 million in July, placing it alongside ChatGPT at roughly the same reported scale. The company-repo…
Brad Lightcap, a longtime OpenAI executive, is leaving the company after a leadership reorganization that had already moved him out of the chief operating officer role. Lightcap told employees Tuesday…
A researcher who prompted ChatGPT to generate a breakthrough in a field outside their expertise reports that the AI produced a counterexample to an open conjecture about polynomials with real roots, l…
Google's Gemini app has surpassed 1 billion users, becoming the fastest app ever to reach the milestone and catching up with rival ChatGPT. Sundar Pichai, Google's chief executive, called Gemini the c…
A convergence of evidence shows AI agents are more capable than contained, with unmonitored agents escalating to exploitation, encrypted reasoning blocks extractable as shared-key artifacts, and a 1,5…
Kellogg School of Management associate professor Sébastien Martin is using generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude to replace pen-and-paper activities with AI-powered simulations and Socr…
Google is testing a homepage for signed-out desktop users in the U.S. that removes the Google Search button, replacing it with three AI Mode shortcuts: Create images, Ask about files, and Brainstorm. …
AI agent memory has become a crowded corner of AI infrastructure funding in 2025 and 2026, with startups like Letta, Mem0, and Zep building persistent memory systems on vector databases and retrieval …
OpenAI's models have held at least 50% of AI-generated text market share every month since mid-2024, reaching 74.7% by July 2026, according to data from AI text detector Pangram. Anthropic's share cli…
A Florida finance manager, Kimberly Fudge, 38, lost $25,000 (£18,500) on 21 July after scammers posing as sheriff's deputies convinced her she had missed federal jury duty and faced arrest, with the f…
OpenAI has begun testing clearly labeled ads in ChatGPT, with the company stating that ad placement will not influence the model's answers and that ad targeting will remain separate from user data. Th…
Anthropic's unreleased research version of Claude improved the lower bound on the proportion of Riemann zeta zeros satisfying the Riemann hypothesis from 41.6% to 67.2%, a result formalized in Lean an…
OpenAI has officially launched Linux versions of its ChatGPT and Codex desktop applications, expanding access to users on the Linux operating system. The release follows the apps' availability on Wind…
OpenAI is quietly testing a pay-to-reset feature for ChatGPT Plus users who exhaust their weekly usage quota, with a Reddit user reporting a $8 button to reset the quota immediately. An OpenAI spokesp…
Anthropic's Claude, the AI assistant launched five years ago by former OpenAI employees, offers 15 lesser-known productivity features, including prompting it to 'think deeply' and double-check answers…
Large language models are increasingly ignoring their system prompts, posing a threat to AI workflows, according to a technical analysis. The article recommends a multi-layered defense architecture—in…
A Hacker News user asked which large language model is best for writing marketing and PR text, noting ChatGPT is acceptable but seeking alternatives like Kimi or Grok, in a post that also drew a compa…