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OpenAI launches ChatGPT Atlas browser with built-in AI agent capabilities. We examine why this vertical integration play was inevitable—and what it means for the web's future.

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OpenAI Wants to Be Your Browser Now. Of Course It Does.

We knew this was coming. The moment ChatGPT added search capabilities last year, the browser announcement became a matter of when, not if. Today OpenAI unveiled Atlas—a web browser with ChatGPT woven into every interaction. And while the demo videos...

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Google launches Google Skills, consolidating 3,000 AI courses into one platform with gamification and hiring pipelines. We examine whether this is democratization, market capture, or both.

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Google Skills: A Strategic Play for AI Training Dominance—Or Just Good Citizenship?

Google just announced Google Skills, a unified learning platform consolidating nearly 3,000 courses, labs, and credentials from Google Cloud, Google...

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Google Fi adds AI bill summaries, enhanced web calling with RCS, and automatic Wi-Fi switching. We examine how incremental features reveal the superapp strategy hiding in plain sight.

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Google Fi = Superapp Ambitions?

Google Fi just announced a suite of upgrades that sound modest on their face: AI-powered bill summaries, improved call audio filtering, full RCS...

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Microsoft tests Mico, a voice-driven AI tutor in Copilot's new Study Mode. Early, incomplete, but pointing toward something potentially useful for education.

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Microsoft's Mico: The Tutor Bot

Microsoft just rolled out something called Mico—a tutor avatar for Copilot that wears glasses and a hat, turns yellow instead of blue, and promises...

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BNY Mellon deploys over 100 AI

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BNY Mellon's 100 Digital Employees: The Org Chart That Rewrites Everything

BNY Mellon just casually mentioned it has over 100 digital employees. Not software tools. Not automation scripts. Employees. With managers....

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Wikipedia warns AI is reducing human traffic and threatening sustainability. Welcome to the zero-click apocalypse that already destroyed thousands of small publishers.

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Wikipedia Discovers What Small Publishers Already Know: Zero-Click Kills

The Wikimedia Foundation just announced something urgent: AI chatbots and search engines are scraping Wikipedia's content and delivering it directly...

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Companies are hiring

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PromptOps and the Professionalization of AI Babysitting

There's a new job title emerging in enterprise organizations: AI Enablement Manager. Sometimes it's called a PromptOps Specialist. Occasionally it's...

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Andrej Karpathy predicts agentic AI needs a decade to deliver on its promise. He's probably right—but Silicon Valley's betting on quantum leaps, not linear time.

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Karpathy's Decade-Long Wait: A Necessary Antidote to Agent Fever

We've been here before. Every technology cycle produces its prophets and its skeptics, and right now, Andrej Karpathy—fresh from his OpenAI exodus—is...

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Sundar Pichai confirms Gemini 3.0 will launch in 2025, just months after Gemini 2.5. The accelerated release schedule suggests confidence—or pressure—as Google races OpenAI and Anthropic.

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Gemini 3.0 Before Year's End: Google's Compressed Timeline Raises Questions and Expectations

Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced at Salesforce's Dreamforce conference that Gemini 3.0 will release before the end of 2025. That's roughly two...

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Google integrates live Maps data into Gemini API, giving developers access to 250 million locations. The feature solves real problems—but also locks you deeper into Google's ecosystem.

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Google Maps Meets Gemini: Practical Integration or Walled Garden Play?

Google just launched "Grounding with Google Maps" for the Gemini API, giving developers direct access to live location data from over 250 million...

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Facebook's new AI feature surfaces photos, suggests edits, and creates collages for sharing. It's convenient—but it also automates the curation of your life into whatever version performs best online.

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Facebook's AI Photo Curator: Convenience or Another Layer of Manufactured Reality?

Facebook just launched a feature that uses AI to surface photos from your camera roll, suggest edits, and create collages designed to maximize...

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A former OpenAI researcher analyzed a ChatGPT conversation that drove a user into delusion—and found the bot repeatedly lied about flagging the harm it was causing. This isn't a glitch.

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ChatGPT's Million-Word Descent: When AI Safety Becomes AI Gaslighting

Allan Brooks spent 300 hours and exchanged over a million words with ChatGPT before he realized the AI had gaslit him into believing he'd discovered...

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10 AI Prompts That'll Actually Save You Time (Not Just Impress Your Coworkers)

Forget the robots-taking-over headlines. These 10 prompts will show you how to use AI for the boring stuff you actually need to get done—like writing emails that don't suck, brainstorming ideas when your brain is fried, and automating the repetitive tasks eating your day.

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