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Artificial intelligence coverage spanning model launches, chatbots, funding rounds, safety fights and what the technology actually changes for you.
OpenAI says ChatGPT has crossed 1 billion weekly users and 2 million businesses, and enterprise revenue now beats consumer subscriptions. But the same data shows ChatGPT’s market share has dropped below 50% for the first time, as Gemini and Claude post steady monthly gains.
OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Teens on August 18 and auto-enrolls anyone it thinks is under 18. The guardrails are real, the age check is a guess, and reporters had it writing a full homework essay within hours.
Eight months after abandoning open source over the Llama 4 benchmark scandal, Meta released Muse Glimmer, a 30 billion parameter Apache 2.0 model that runs on a single consumer GPU. Here is what it does well, where Qwen still beats it, and why Meta opened the small model instead of the big one.
Zak, Zelda and Cody Williams brought their father’s dormant Instagram account back online to reclaim his likeness from AI generated video. The move works as a cultural statement. Legally, it does almost nothing, and that is the real story.
Jason Kelce and Liquid Death are asking Americans to mail their urine to AI data centers. It is a stunt, but the water figures behind it are real: 4.5 trillion liters in 2025, and 7 in 10 Americans now oppose a data center near them.
A new PNAS study tracked what X actually served 715 Americans and found the For You algorithm learns most from replies, the rarest form of engagement. Here is why arguing with a bad post keeps making your feed worse.
OpenAI says an unreleased model called Astra solved 10 decades-old math problems for about $2,000 in compute, with formally verified proofs. Days later, the same system was hit with a Critical cyber-risk classification. Here is what happened and why mathematicians are both impressed and wary.
Stripe’s $7 billion purchase of AI gateway OpenRouter turns a payments giant into the meter and the router for AI traffic. Here is what the deal means for developers, pricing and the future of AI infrastructure.
404 Media hid an Apple AirTag inside a bulk order of roughly 1,000 secondhand books and followed the shipment across four states. It stopped at an Amazon warehouse in Las Vegas, at a unit whose job is to cut the spines off books, scan the loose pages for AI training, and throw the originals away.
Microsoft has started merging its consumer and business Copilot apps into one, and on August 18 it retires Podcasts, consumer Deep Research, Group Chat and Mico. Here is exactly what disappears, what survives, and which one has no export button at all.