Google’s new anything-to-anything AI model is wild

But it was a revealing exercise that made me think a lot about the difference between some harmless fun with generative AI ...

Gemini 3.5 Flash is Google’s new default AI model, and it’s built to act, not just answer

Google today announced Gemini 3.5 Flash, its most capable Flash-series model to date. The company says it outperforms Gemini 3.1 Pro on coding and agentic benchmarks and runs at four times the speed ...
Gizmodo

Google Chrome Is Downloading a 4GB AI Model Onto Your Device Without Consent, Researcher Warns

Even if you aren’t using Google Gemini, it might be using your device. Security researcher Alexander Hanff, also known as “That Privacy Guy,” recently reported ...
PC World

Chrome silently downloads a 4GB AI model. Here’s how to remove it

Google’s Chrome browser is already a notorious storage hog, but now comes word that it’s crowding our PC drives in a new way: with a local AI model. That model ...
Wired

Using AI for Just 10 Minutes Might Make You Lazy and Dumb, Study Shows

Using AI chatbots for even just 10 minutes may have a shockingly negative impact on people’s ability to think and problem-solve, according to a new study from researchers at Carnegie Mellon, MIT, ...
Digital Trends

Google Chrome is installing a 4 GB AI model onto your device. Here’s how you can turn it off

While Google Chrome is still the most popular browser, it’s feeling the heat from the new wave of AI browsers, including Perplexity Comet, Dia, and more. To stay relevant, Google is adding new AI ...
The Verge

The more young people use AI, the more they hate it

It’s been almost three years since Silicon Valley started aggressively pushing large language model-based chatbots like ChatGPT as the supposedly inevitable future of everything, and there’s no group ...
eWeek

Amazon Welcomes OpenAI to Its Cloud Portfolio

Microsoft keeps a capped revenue share but loses a marquee advantage, forcing Redmond to prove its in-house models can rival OpenAI while juggling new ties to Anthropic. GIF via Amazon/YouTube AWS CEO ...
Wall Street Journal

China’s DeepSeek Launches Long-Awaited AI Model

SINGAPORE—China’s DeepSeek released a new artificial-intelligence model, breaking months of silence from one of the country’s most closely watched AI labs. The long-awaited update to its V4 flagship ...
Live Science

Claude Mythos explained: Is Anthropic's most powerful AI model really too dangerous to release to the public?

Anthropic's unveiling of its Claude Mythos Preview model alongside Project Glasswing is prompting widespread scrutiny ‪as experts warn that the artificial intelligence (AI) system's capabilities could ...
CNN

5 ways your doctor may be using AI chatbots — and why it matters

Millions of Americans are turning to AI chatbots for health answers. Doctors are, too. But the ways doctors are incorporating AI chatbots into their practice are surprising. Specialized medical AI ...
Reuters

OpenAI launches AI model GPT-Rosalind for life sciences research

April 16 - OpenAI on Thursday introduced an artificial intelligence model touting increased biology knowledge and scientific research capabilities, as the startup deepens its push into the ‌life ...