Google’s Gemini puts OpenAI on shakier ground, with big market implications
Almost every night, for almost a decade, I got a phone call between 7:00 and 7:01 p.m. ET.…
I just tested ChatGPT-5.1 vs. Grok 4.1 with 9 prompts — and there’s a clear winner
ChatGPT continues to be an impressive go-to chatbot for everything from quick questions to long-form summaries. Since the…
Xpeng cuts open its humanoid robot to prove it’s real
When the Next-Gen Iron humanoid was unveiled to the public earlier this month, strutting fluidly down the runway…
Game Theory Explains How Algorithms Can Drive Up Prices
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers…
Agility’s ‘hardest working’ humanoid robot hits 100,000-tote milestone
Oregon-based robotics company Agility Robotics announced Thursday that its humanoid robot Digit has moved more than 100,000 totes…
Ubisoft says AI is ‘as big a revolution for our industry as the shift to 3D,’ its magical AI NPCs are out of prototyping, and you bet it’s got ‘all our studios’ working with the tech
After a delay and some brouhaha, Ubisoft’s H1 FY26 financial report finally took place earlier today, and turned…
Something Disturbing Happens When You “Learn” Something With ChatGPT
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images ChatGPT and other AI chatbots are replacing the search…
Four ways AI is being used to strengthen democracies worldwide | Nathan E Sanders and Bruce Schneier
Democracy is colliding with the technologies of artificial intelligence. Judging from the audience reaction at the recent World…
Who is AI nostalgia slop even for?
There has been a recent deluge of generative AI videos featuring uncannily fresh-faced teens waxing nostalgic about how…
Pinterest is leaning hard into AI. The strategy appears to be backfiring
New York  — Abigail Wendling, 23, uses Pinterest to curate everything in her life, from recipes to wallpapers.…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to employees in internal memo: Google’s AI success can create…
ChatGPT maker OpenAI‘s CEO Sam Altman is optimistic about Google‘s recent successes in artificial intelligence (AI) technology. In…
$1 trillion squad: Musk, Zuckerberg, Pichai, and fellow billionaires break the internet with viral photo |
An image of the world’s most powerful tech titans standing in a dimly lit parking lot has become…