ChatGPT ran 50,000 tournament simulations, weighed efficiency ratings, coaching tendencies, and upset history — then asked me something no bracket sheet ever has: do you want to be right, or do you want to win money?
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Anthropic’s new Cowork Dispatch update lets users kick off and monitor desktop tasks from a phone, pushing Claude closer to an operating layer for daily work.
New AI agents on WordPress.com could lower barriers to publishing while increasing machine-generated content across the web.
Trump’s AI framework pushes federal preemption of state laws, emphasizes innovation, and shifts responsibility for child safety toward parents while laying out lighter-touch rules for tech companies.
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Since roughly the turn of the millennium, Google Search has been the bedrock of the web. People loved Google’s trustworthy “10 blue links” search experience and its unspoken promise: The website you click is the website you get. Now, Google is beginning to replace news headlines in its search results with ones that are AI-generated. […]

Over 10 years after shelving the Fire Phone, Amazon is reportedly planning to launch another smartphone, this time focused on Alexa. According to Reuters, the phone, which is code-named “Transformer,” will center around Amazon’s AI assistant, but Alexa won’t “necessarily be the primary operating system of the phone.” “Transformer” is currently in development in Amazon’s […]
While Meta comes under fire for concerns about data privacy and facial recognition, independent players like Even Realities and Mentra offer an alternative.

There’s a big, and increasing, disconnect in culture right now when it comes to artificial intelligence. Companies of all shapes and sizes are hunting for places to deploy AI and can’t stop talking about how this new technology will change everything. But when you ask people about AI, the consistent response is: no thanks. Study […]
After testifying before the Senate, one healthcare AI insider argues the real challenge isn’t the technology — it’s everything around it.