Moltbot briefly becomes the internet’s favorite AI chatbot after chaotic rebrand

Open-source personal AI assistant Moltbot went viral after a chaotic rebrand to offer proactive automation

‘It’s an awesome robot. It looks like a human. People could be easily confused that it’s a human’ — Tesla exec on why Optimus 3 is a game changer

Tesla makes big shift to focus on AI and robotics, promising a very human-like Optimus 3 by March — but what does that really mean?
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Napster’s back — and its new AI-first app wants you to help create the music, not just listen to it

Napster is back and this time as an AI-powered music platform betting that the future of audio is co-creation, not passive listening.
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ChatGPT’s new age-detection feature is misfiring — and adult users are getting stuck in teen mode

OpenAI’s age verification AI is annoying adults mistakenly placed in teen mode and pressured to verify their age

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Google brings AI Plus to the U.S. with creative tools and shared storage — and it might be the ‘just-right’ AI subscription deal

Google has launched its AI Plus subscription in 35 countries, including the U.S., bundling enhanced AI tools, cloud storage, and video generation features.
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We ‘want to encourage other people in our generation to be the types of people who do not even want to have an AI friend’: Appstinence founder on the fight to help people step back from tech and reconnect with real life

Appstinence Founder Gabriela Nguyen on how the organization is helping people disconnect from addictive apps, platforms, and technologies, and why AI is the fight’s next front.
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Chrome gets its biggest upgrade in years — the new Gemini side panel puts AI agents, multitasking, and Nano Banana inside the browser

Google’s biggest Chrome update in years bakes Gemini AI agents, multitasking, and image editing directly into the browser, turning everyday web browsing into a hands-off experience.
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Sam Altman admits OpenAI ‘screwed up’ the writing quality on ChatGPT 5.2 – and promises future versions won’t ‘neglect’ it

ChatGPT 5.2’s writing ability was ‘screwed up,’ Sam Altman said at a recent town hall meeting – but improvements are on the way.
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The UK government gets it spectacularly wrong on AI – just 3% of the public agree with its stance on copyright law changes

A major public consultation revealed overwhelming opposition to the UK government’s AI copyright proposal

I’m all for weird tech, and this viral AI sticker maker has just shot to the top of my list of recent obsessions

Stickerbox by Hapiko has taken social media by storm. Here’s how it uses generative AI to make custom stickers.