I Asked ChatGPT 500 Questions. Here Are the Ads I Saw Most Often
… Neither of OpenAI’s main competitors features sponsored ad buttons in the outputs, though Google recently said it’s not ruling it out. …
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Demis Hassabis Thinks AI Job Cuts Are Dumb
… The company also demoed an agentic assistant called Spark that lives in Google’s Cloud and has access to its apps. The design is meant to be safer than something like OpenClaw because it has limited access to personal data, Google says. …
Top Google Security Staff Warn Search Data Could Be Hacked if EU Rules Change
… The plans broadly say Google should provide online search engines with access to search data “on par” with the data that Google itself collects, including “any query input” people enter into Google Search plus some other metadata. Put simply: what people type into Google. …
Google Search Goes Agentic—and Doesn’t Need You Anymore
… Always-On Answers One of the key agentic experiences rolling out is a new form of dynamic data gathering through “information agents” that can be more proactive than previous search experiences and automate alerts through your conversational requests. “Ask Google to just keep you updated on anythin… …
Tim Cook’s Legacy Is Turning Apple Into a Subscription
… The company has a multiyear deal with Google to embed Google Gemini into Apple products. If this latest tie-up is as lucrative as Apple’s Safari search deal with Google has been, Apple might do just fine in generative AI in the near term. …
Drug Sites Hijacked Spotify’s Search Ranking Through Fake Podcasts
… The shows were barely heard, because reaching Spotify's audience was never the goal, according to the company, which says the actual payload was links buried in episode descriptions and cover art—an effort at exploiting Spotify's standing with search engines to push illicit pharmacy and scam sites … …
Crypto-Funded Chinese Peptide Labs Are Booming
… Packaged with Google Dialer and shipping to phones running Android 12 or later, it pings the caller’s device for a silent cryptographic handshake. …
I Gave My OpenClaw Agent a Physical Body
… Interestingly, CaP-X shows that the best model for programming robots isn’t Claude or ChatGPT but Gemini—perhaps because Google DeepMind has focused on training its models to be multimodal and make sense of the physical world. …
I Watched 18 Hours of Coachella’s Vertical Livestream and All I Got Was This Lousy FOMO
… The festival’s EDM- and DJ-oriented Quasar stage, livestreaming on YouTube shorts all weekend, was shot exclusively on Google Pixel devices. …
The iPhone That Never Was
… In addition to members of the original Mac team, General Magic alumni went on to become executives at Apple, Google, Adobe, Samsung, and other household‑name companies. …