Gemini Call for Me might tell your mom you’re running late

Google may be expanding its “Call for Me” AI feature beyond business calls so you can use it to send messages to friends and family. Android Authority reports finding a…

The Matic is the first robovac to get an FCC ban waiver, not that it needs it

The Matic is our favorite robot vacuum and robo-mop, and it’s also now the first to escape the FCC’s Roomba ban. Well, sort of — because the Matic wasn’t banned…

Reverse-engineered games: All the news on video game decomps, recomps, VR and web and 3D ports

It’s a wild time for retro gaming. Thanks to decompilations and recompilations of classic titles, those games are becoming unshackled from their proprietary code and original hardware to be ported…

Hyundai CEO says only a ‘level playing field’ can minimize damage from China

There’s been a lot of doom and gloom from the auto industry lately when the subject of China comes up. Automaker CEOs, in particular, warn that allowing low-cost, high-tech Chinese…

This startup is issuing AI-generated acne prescriptions

The service is launching as a pilot program with gradually loosening physician oversight. Two physicians will approve each AI-generated prescription before they’re issued for the first 100 patients, but will…

All the drama around AI’s takeover of mathematics

This past year, OpenAI, Anthropic, and other labs have announced breakthroughs on numerous long-standing mathematical problems, in some cases pushing well beyond what researchers expected current systems to be capable…

Wikipedia operator says OpenAI’s ‘rogue’ bots may be linked to a May outage

Wiki editing: We’ve identified edits to Wikimedia wikis that we believe are from AI agents operated by OpenAI. These edits were not published to pages with visibility to general readers;…

OpenAI is adding text watermarking in ChatGPT and Codex

Rolling out text watermarking in the EU. Over the coming weeks, we will introduce text watermarking to eligible ChatGPT and Codex users across all plans in the EU only. We…

Sam Altman says ‘some bad things’ will happen but AI is totally worth it

Sam Altman thinks that the benefits of AI will be so great that “the world should accept some bad things happening” along the way. The OpenAI CEO pointed to hacks,…

OpenAI PR tells journalist to ‘move on’ while asking Sam Altman about a ChatGPT user’s suicide

An OpenAI publicist tried to change the topic of CEO Sam Altman’s interview with Vanity Fair’s Mark Guiducci after the editor brought up a ChatGPT user’s suicide. When Guiducci confronted…