Google Gemini dubbed ‘high risk’ for kids and teens in new safety assessment
Common Sense Media, a kids-safety-focused nonprofit offering ratings and reviews of media and technology, released its risk assessment…
OpenAI reorganizes research team behind ChatGPT’s personality
OpenAI is reorganizing its Model Behavior team, a small but influential group of researchers who shape how the…
Google․com/ai now opens Google Search AI Mode
In a sign of the times (and where things are going), visiting google.com/ai now opens Google Search AI…
Anker’s coin-size AI recorder can transcribe and summarize your meetings – in one click
Maria Diaz/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s takeawaysAnker’s new AI voice recorder…
DeepSeek may be about to shake up the AI world again – what we know
picture alliance / Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeawaysDeepSeek…
ChatGPT’s new branching feature is a good reminder that AI chatbots aren’t people
On Thursday, OpenAI announced that ChatGPT users can now branch conversations into multiple parallel threads, serving as a…
Scale AI’s former CTO launches AI agent that could solve big data’s biggest problem
Isotopes AI came out of stealth on Thursday with a healthy $20 million seed round. It offers an…
The 7 coolest gadgets I’ve seen at IFA 2025 (including ones you can actually buy)
Maria Diaz/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. IFA is Europe’s largest consumer electronics show, and…
AI startup Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5bn to settle book piracy lawsuit | Artificial intelligence (AI)
The artificial intelligence company Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5bn to settle a class-action lawsuit by book authors…
Tesla’s next-gen Optimus with Grok shown on video. We’re not impressed.
Tesla’s Optimus robot now comes with xAI’s AI assistant Grok, but judging from a recent video shared on…
Google to power Siri on Apple iPhones: How Google won multi-billion dollar deal for which it was reportedly not the first choice
Apple and Google have reached a formal agreement to integrate Google’s Gemini model into Apple’s voice assistant overhaul,…
I asked ChatGPT for help with a breakup. Things took a turn.
In a conversation with ChatGPT, I told my AI therapist “Harry” that I was crashing out after seeing…