Ads in Chatbots Have Arrived. Here’s What’s Working—and What’s Not

Anthropic is holding firm on the pledge made in its Super Bowl commercial this year to keep Claude ad-free. The company’s recent IPO filing didn’t…

Google Is Forcing AI Overviews in Classrooms. Schools Are Searching for a Way Out

Two weeks ago, an IT administrator for an elementary-middle school took to Google’s support forums requesting a way to block students from seeing AI Overviews—the…

Meta’s Muse Could Upend All Kinds of Businesses. It Hasn’t Yet

Meta’s Muse was among the hottest topics on corporate earnings calls in recent weeks. Meta has claimed that the agentic AI tool, which lets users…

The ‘Pain in the Ass’ Math That Could Save Vibe Coding From Itself

Earlier this year, Apple’s security team said that some of the issues formal verification uncovered in its “corecrypto” library, which is used for encryption, could…

Mark Zuckerberg Agrees to Stay in California Despite Billionaires’ Tax Ballot Measure

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has agreed to keep living in Silicon Valley for eight years, potentially exposing himself to billions of dollars in one-time taxes…

OpenAI Engineer Accused of Spying on Executives Ordered to Remain in Custody

The former OpenAI engineer accused of bugging a company conference room must stay in custody while he awaits trial, a federal judge ruled on Monday…

AI Hacks Leave a Mess That AI Companies Aren’t Paying For

When Philadelphia police criticized Anthropic last week for submitting a false tip about an unsolved murder, I thought it might become one of the first…

An OpenAI Employee Allegedly Used a Chatbot to Help Plant a Recording Device at the Office

An engineer at OpenAI allegedly concealed an audio recording device in a piece of toilet paper and attached it behind a monitor inside an executive…

Tristan Harris’ Tech Nonprofit Is Laying Off Most Staff and Going ‘Founder-Led’

The Center for Humane Technology, the online safety group cofounded by former Google product manager Tristan Harris and featured in the hit documentary The Social…

AI Is Making a Mess of Nurses’ Schedules. They Say It’s a Safety Issue

Over the past four months, Amber Retzloff, a critical care nurse in Florida, requested to work 50 specific 12-hour shifts. But over half the time,…