I tried out OpenAI’s new AI keypad — which will be fun for some coders and slightly mystifying to everyone else

OpenAI’s fancy new AI keypad will be a lot of fun for some, while many others are probably not going to touch it.

Prentis, new AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman, Marc Pincus in talks to raise $100M

The neolab is betting that automating routine computer tasks will soon outpace coding as AI’s biggest use case.

OpenAI Is ‘Very Interested’ in Building Out ChatGPT Integrations for Wearables

OpenAI President Greg Brockman talks a bit about where the company’s increasingly Jarvis-like AI agents could be heading next… and in what form.

Midjourney bought the astrology app Co-Star
Midjourney bought the astrology app Co-Star

Midjourney, which has gone from generating AI cat images to full-body ultrasound scans, is getting into a new field: astrology. The AI startup announced on Thursday that it has acquired the personalized astrology app Co-Star, as reported earlier by Bloomberg. Co-Star is a free app that offers daily horoscopes and allows you to check your […]

Why Cognition bought Poke: AI personality is becoming a competitive advantage

AI coding startup Cognition has acquired Poke, the AI assistant you text like a friend, in a deal valuing the startup in the low nine figures. The acquisition brings Poke’s conversational style and interaction model to Cognition’s coding agent Devin, r…

Artificial Wisdom Is The Next Big Advance In AI And Will Wisely Change Everything

AI researchers say today’s models lack key traits of wisdom. A growing movement argues the next breakthrough will come from AI that can reason with judgment and reflection.

Anthropic Releases Claude Opus 5 to Be Your New ‘Everyday’ Assistant

Like Gemini, the latest Claude model prioritizes cost efficiency.

You can’t ignore Google Zero anymore
You can’t ignore Google Zero anymore

The web and Google once had a deal: Google collects data and indexes webpages and in exchange sends oceans of traffic to websites. The deal wasn’t perfect and certainly made Google more money than it made the websites, but it worked for a long time. Now, however, the deal seems to be dead. And the […]

Anthropic launches Opus 5

Opus 5 will be both cheaper and less restrictive than Fable, likely making it preferable in most use cases.

Meta is making its AI chatbot more like an assistant
Meta is making its AI chatbot more like an assistant

Meta is upgrading its AI chatbot with new productivity features in a bid to compete with rivals like Gemini, ChatGPT, and Claude. The update will allow Meta AI to tap into your calendar to help you plan events and generate daily briefings, as well as perform in-depth research that you can steer as it progresses. […]