Meta’s own employees are having a hard time digesting AI. Who would’ve thought?

Meta is tracking employee keystrokes, tying AI usage to performance reviews, and laying off thousands — all at once — and somehow seems surprised that morale is in freefall.

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Sci-fi got the gadgets right, but the vibes wrong

Sci-fi promised holograms, floating interfaces, and magic computers. Consumer tech delivered phones, video calls, smart speakers, and the boring version that actually ships.

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Sci-fi got the gadgets right, but the vibes wrong

Sci-fi promised holograms, floating interfaces, and magic computers. Consumer tech delivered phones, video calls, smart speakers, and the boring version that actually ships.

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Google’s Gemini Intelligence leak has me excited, but please not that name

Google may be preparing a deeper Gemini-powered AI layer that connects more closely with your apps, photos, emails, and everyday phone tasks.

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Meta wants an AI agent to go Instagram shopping for you and pull the whole agent stunt

Meta is reportedly building AI tools that can complete everyday tasks, including an Instagram shopping assistant planned for late 2026.

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Korea welcomes robotic buddhist monk at a real monastery. It’s a sign of things to come.

South Korea’s largest Buddhist order has introduced Gabi, a humanoid robot monk, raising fresh questions about how AI and robotics may fit into spiritual life.

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OpenAI’s new voice AI can listen, think, and talk back in 70+ languages

OpenAI launched three new audio models that can reason, translate across 70+ languages, and transcribe speech in real time, making voice a genuinely useful interface for developers.

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ChatGPT now lets you name someone to check in if things get dark

ChatGPT can now alert someone you trust if things get serious. It is a simple feature, but it might be one of the most human things OpenAI has ever built into its chatbot.

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Perplexity’s AI answering engine is not coming to Snapchat, after all

Snapchat has walked away from its Perplexity AI search plan, raising fresh questions about how much AI users actually want inside social apps.

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Even brief AI use could hurt your ability to think, a new study finds

A new study from researchers at MIT, Carnegie Mellon, Oxford, and UCLA found that even brief AI use can hurt your ability to problem-solve once the tool is taken away.

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