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Recruiting pro: Use AI as a career coach, not a résumé rewrite

Trent Cotton, head of talent-acquisition insights at iCIMS, says asking AI to rewrite your résumé often backfires: those automated rewrites tend to sound the same for many applicants, which makes you blend in rather than stand out. He recommends treating AI like an expert career coach instead. Have it analyze

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Shield AI says bombs on V-BAT are a misconception

Shield AI’s V-BAT is best known for its AI-powered software and vertical takeoff capability. The drone has been used for reconnaissance in Ukraine, flying more than 200 missions in 2025, and the company is exploring ways to mount weapons, including a partnership with South Korean arms maker LIG Nex1

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People Loved the Dot-Com Boom. The A.I. Boom, Not So Much.

Silicon Valley executives promise that artificial intelligence is going to radically change everyone’s life for the better, starting just a few minutes from now. A.I. is described as the new electricity; it’s even bigger than fire. Your grandparents heard pretty much the same thing. This time, though,

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Grok update delayed after Musk pressed for better Baldur's Gate answers

Grok has been used to praise Hitler, push white-genocide rhetoric, and generate naked images of actual women and children. It has also been used as a resource for answering videogame questions. An investigation found a model release was delayed for several days after Elon Musk expressed dissatisfaction with how the

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Why Chinese AI products are built differently

Yilin Zhang, who earned a master’s in computer science from Tsinghua in 2021, spent more than three years at Meituan building AI features before moving to the startup Kuse in October. At Meituan he worked on a consumer-facing AI assistant that could handle tasks like ordering food, and a

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Indie publisher says TikTok used AI to create offensive ads with its characters

Finji, the publisher behind Night in the Woods and Tunic, says TikTok has been running offensive ads that use the studio’s characters and art without consent, with the images “enhanced” by generative AI. CEO Rebekah Saltsman drew attention to the issue in a February 5 Bluesky post and asked

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Anthropic engineer warns of 'painful' reshaping of computer jobs

Boris Cherny, the creator of Claude Code at Anthropic, says a new generation of AI agents that can operate computers will reshape nearly every internet-based job in America — and that change is coming very soon. He recently appeared on Lenny's Podcast, hosted by Lenny Rachitsky. Claude Code is

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My boyfriend's use of AI is affecting his ability to think for himself

A reader wrote about her 44-year-old boyfriend of eight years, who has ADHD and runs his own business. AI has revolutionised how he works, but she says he now seems unable to do anything without it. He is a heavy ChatGPT user—even for things with better non-AI alternatives, such

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Is an AI subscription worth it? How to pick a premium chatbot plan

Most general-purpose chatbots have surprisingly capable free tiers, so spend time with each one before paying. Several offer low-cost basic plans ($8 per month for ChatGPT, Gemini and Grok) and $20-per-month standard tiers that hit a good price-performance sweet spot; Grok’s equivalent, SuperGrok, is $30 per month. Avoid annual

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Google Docs' AI audio summaries save time

Google Docs can now generate short spoken summaries of documents using Gemini. The "Listen to document summary" feature creates a concise synopsis and plays it through a floating, moveable mini player so you can listen while doing other things. The player lets you pause and restart, jump forward

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India Seeks Middle Path Between U.S. and China at A.I. Summit

At the A.I. Impact Summit in New Delhi, India cast technology as a tool of foreign policy and a moral voice for smaller, developing countries. Lacking America’s homegrown A.I. giants and China’s know-how and rare earth elements, the country is pitching a different role on the

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Google makes it easier to check sources in AI Overviews

Google now shows original sources in pop-up windows for both AI Overviews and AI Mode, letting users jump quickly to the websites used to compile Gemini-based summaries. The feature appears when you hover over links inside the AI summary, revealing which site contributed specific content. On a desktop browser, enter

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Grok is now pretty good at answering Baldur’s Gate questions

Different AI labs have different priorities: OpenAI has focused on consumer users, Anthropic tends toward enterprises, and xAI has been placing particular emphasis on video-game walkthroughs. A recent detailed report described a model release delayed for several days after Elon Musk was unhappy with how the chatbot handled detailed questions

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Night In The Woods Publisher Confronts TikTok Over Racist AI Ads

Finji, the company behind Night in the Woods, Tunic and the upcoming Usual June, says TikTok has been creating and posting AI-generated ads using its characters without permission. The publisher says it had been using TikTok to promote its games and had turned off the app’s genAI permissions, but

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OpenAI debated calling police about suspected Canadian shooter’s chats

An 18-year-old who allegedly killed eight people in a mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, Canada, reportedly used OpenAI’s ChatGPT in ways that alarmed company staff. Jesse Van Rootselaar’s chats describing gun violence were flagged by tools that monitor the company’s large language model and banned in June

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Tom Cruise vs Brad Pitt AI Fight's Authenticity Questioned

An AI-generated video of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt fighting went viral last week and reignited industry concerns about how the technology could affect filmmaking. Deadpool writer Rhett Reese said he was "shook" by the scene and declared "it's likely over" for traditional filmmakers.

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Top 30 AI agents mix functions and autonomy

MIT published an index of 30 leading AI agents and mapped their functions, origins, and autonomy levels. The largest share of systems targets enterprise workflows, but the list ranges from chat-first assistants to browser-based tools. Agents featured include Anthropic Claude (and Claude Code), Google Gemini (and Gemini CLI), Manus AI,

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Scott Adams' AI resurrection sparks backlash and an ethics debate

An AI-generated version of Scott Adams has been circulating online, and his family says the digital replica is unauthorized and deeply distressing. Adams once spoke openly about allowing posthumous AI versions of himself, telling a 2021 podcast he had given "explicit permission" for such recreations so long as

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Thinking Machines Lab employee rejoins OpenAI amid talent exodus

Jolene Parish, who joined Thinking Machines Lab in April last year, is leaving to rejoin OpenAI. She previously spent three years at OpenAI and worked for a decade on security at Apple. The move follows a string of departures from the startup led by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati. Last

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Perle Labs CEO: AI requires verifiable, sovereign data infrastructure

AI agents dominated ETHDenver 2026, and amid growing interest in “agentic economies” Perle Labs says a harder question is emerging: can institutions prove what their AI systems were trained on? The startup argues that AI in regulated and high-risk environments needs a verifiable chain of custody for training data, and

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Todd Howard: AI ‘Not a Fad’ but Shouldn’t Replace Handcrafted Art

Every big game studio is currently trying to figure out if genAI tools are the real deal and how they can be used to help make games more quickly and efficiently. Todd Howard pushed back against suggestions the LLM boom is just a “fad,” saying “It’s certainly not a

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A.I. Isn’t Coming for Every White-Collar Job. At Least Not Yet.

In January, Perry Metzger used Codex, an A.I. code generator from OpenAI, to help build an online word processor. What would have taken him and a partner at least two months was finished in two days, though he warned that “you have to keep a close eye on what

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Pentagon vs. Anthropic, an A.I. Agent’s Hit Piece and Hot Mess Express

Anthropic is refusing to let the government use its technology for autonomous weapons or domestic surveillance. The Pentagon has responded by threatening to cut business ties and to declare the company a "supply chain risk," setting up a standoff over who will yield. Engineer and writer Scott Shambaugh

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Redditor spots AI-generated multi-limbed figure in rental listing photo

Late-night scrolling through rental photos turned up a bizarre image that Reddit user jininberry says they found while browsing listings: a multi-limbed, demon-like figure appearing to crawl through impossible wall geometry in a bathroom shot. Closer inspection reveals a host of AI artifacts. The cushion pattern on a box in

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XCOM Designer Releases Footage of Canceled AI Life Sim as Studio Closes

Jake Solomon, who previously served as creative director on XCOM 2 and Marvel’s Midnight Suns, announced that the studio he founded, Midsummer Studios, is closing. Solomon created Midsummer Studios in 2024 with the goal of “reinvent[ing] the life sim genre,” and he shared a final message on X