Meet Microsoft Scout, Your AI Coworker That Never Logs Off
Microsoft more or less built an enterprise agent on top of OpenClaw, the AI tool that riveted San Francisco’s early adopters at the start of 2026. Scout is designed specifically to…
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Google Search Goes Agentic—and Doesn’t Need You Anymore
…AI summary positioned at the top of my search results and sometimes clicking through to double-check the accuracy of the output. The next evolution of Search that Google is building asks…
Here’s How Much San Francisco Tech Companies Pay for Police Protection
…well as a nearby building in the city’s busy downtown area. It also spent nearly $41,000 for officers at its TrailblazerDX 2024 conference hosted at the city’s convention center…
AI Has Come for Serif Fonts
…sneaky or sinister. “Somebody at these labs is trying to get these models to be good at design,” he says.“It’s pretty pragmatic.” Zhang compares AI, in its present state of…
AI Agents Are Coming for Your Dating Life
…has to do with the story that two people build together.” Against that backdrop, for agentic dating to function as advertised, the AI would have to surface some sort of a latent…
5 Reasons to Think Twice Before Using ChatGPT—or Any Chatbot—for Financial Advice
…can undermine users’ capacity for self-correction and responsible decision-making.” The study looked at how AI will take a user’s side during interpersonal conflicts, but concerns about sycophancy are relevant…
AI Agents Plunged the Tech World Into Chaos. Here’s Exactly How That Happened
…In less than two weeks, as users downloaded it and began feverishly building, the project racked up more than 100,000 stars. (As of early May, it stood at 366,000 stars…
Some Asexuals Are Using AI Companions for Intimacy Without the Sex
…group under the guise of helping them.” AI companionship among asexual people is “not a particularly widespread phenomenon,” says Michael Doré, a board member at the Asexual Visibility and Education Network. “Between…
Thousands of Vibe-Coded Apps Expose Corporate and Personal Data on the Open Web
Security researcher Dor Zvi and his team at the cybersecurity firm he cofounded, RedAccess, analyzed thousands of vibe-coded web applications created using the AI software development tools Lovable, Replit, Base44, and…
OpenAI Enters Its Focus Era by Killing Sora
…and Codex, its AI-powered coding agent. These efforts have had varying levels of success, and Sora's growth in particular has stalled in recent months. After peaking at 3.3 million…