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The New Fabio Is Claude

Last February the writer Coral Hart began using artificial intelligence to produce romance novels. Over eight months she created 21 pen names and published dozens, and found chatbots ill-suited to writing about sex and love: some programs refused explicit content, others produced graphic scenes that lacked emotional nuance, and Claude

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Sixteen Claude AI agents built a new C compiler

Anthropic researcher Nicholas Carlini published a blog post describing an experiment that set 16 instances of the Claude Opus 4.6 model loose on a shared codebase with minimal supervision to build a C compiler from scratch. Over two weeks and nearly 2,000 Claude Code sessions that cost about

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Feeling ‘Amateur’ at Retirement Planning, They Asked A.I. for Help

Caitlyn Yingling had never looked closely at her 401(k) until a podcast prompted her to check. She discovered her target‑date fund was set for someone who would have retired in 2015, then used ChatGPT to move the date to 2060 and shift her allocation toward more stocks. The

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The New Fabio Is Claude

Last February the novelist Coral Hart began an experiment, using artificial intelligence to churn out romance novels. Over eight months she created 21 pen names and published dozens of books, discovering clear limits: some programs refused to write explicit content, others such as Grok and NovelAI produced graphic sex that

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One AI hub, fewer tabs — 1min.AI’s lifetime plan costs $99.99

A $99.99 lifetime license to 1min.AI bundles AI tools for writing, images, PDFs, audio, and video in one place. The 1min.AI Advanced Business Plan is currently offered for $99.99 (reg. $540), a saving of $440.01. Rather than locking users into a single assistant, 1min.AI

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Roblox demo appears to copy Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

The Roblox Corporation unveiled a new "real-time, action conditioned world model," a generative AI tool for producing interactable videos that closely resembles Google’s Project Genie, which launched last week. While Project Genie was criticized for reusing Mario and Zelda elements, Roblox’s demo seemed to reproduce elements

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9 ChatGPT caricature trend attempts that went wrong

If you’ve been online in the past week, you’ve probably seen the ChatGPT caricature trend. People are prompting the chatbot with a simple request: "Create a caricature of me based on everything you know about me." In the best cases the result is a cute, wholesome

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WordPress launches Claude connector for back-end site data

WordPress launched a new Claude connector, enabling site owners to share back-end data with Anthropic’s chatbot system. Users can control what specific data they want to share, and access can also be revoked if and when the user chooses. Notably, Claude is given read-only access, meaning it won’t

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From Svedka to Anthropic, brands make bold plays with AI in Super Bowl ads

This year’s Super Bowl ads leaned heavily on artificial intelligence, with brands using AI both to create commercials and to promote new AI products. The technology shared the spotlight with movie trailers and snack brands, appearing in spots that ranged from dancing robots to smart glasses and even a

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Crypto.com CEO Kris Marszalek pivots to AI with ai.com and $70M domain

Crypto.com CEO Kris Marszalek is steering the company into artificial intelligence with the launch of ai.com, supported by a $70 million purchase of the domain. The consumer platform is set to debut in a Super Bowl LX commercial on February 8. The service aims to let retail users

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Mathematicians Put A.I. to the Test with First Proof

A group of mathematicians has launched First Proof, an experiment that uses genuine, unpublished research questions to measure how well large-language models handle research-level mathematics. Each contributor supplied a test problem drawn from work they had underway; the solutions were encrypted online and are due to be released on Feb.

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GOG boss refuses absolute stance on AI after banner controversy

A dispute erupted in January after forum users noticed a sale banner that appeared to be AI generated. Forum member KosmicznaPluskwa, whose avatar indicates they are a senior graphics designer and member of the GOG team, confirmed the banner "is fully AI" but declined to provide further detail,

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Briarcliff Offers Free Tickets to Workers Displaced by AI

Briarcliff Entertainment is offering free tickets to anyone who has lost employment to artificial intelligence for its new film Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die. Directed by Gore Verbinski, the sci‑fi action‑comedy follows a man from the future recruiting customers at a Los Angeles diner to

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Best AI chatbots of 2026 — ChatGPT tops hands-on tests

The arrival of the first successful AI chatbot in 2022 reshaped how people work and learn. To see where things stand now, a hands-on comparison ran 112 individual tests: ten text-based prompts and four image tasks. Each chatbot was scored out of 100 for text and 20 for images, for

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Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft boost AI spending, stocks react

Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Meta outlined massive data-center spending plans in recent earnings, signaling a new phase of AI-driven infrastructure investment. Amazon alone said it plans $200 billion in capital expenditures for 2026, more than a 50% increase from 2025. Investors reacted with caution. Shares of several companies moved lower

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Anthropic airs Super Bowl ads attacking ads in ChatGPT

Anthropic has released the adverts it plans to show during the Super Bowl, which is in two days. The event draws a huge live audience, and 30 seconds of airtime can cost up to $10 million. The ads criticise ads being introduced to ChatGPT, calling the move a "betrayal&

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Waymo leverages Genie 3 to create a world model for self-driving cars

Waymo's World Model builds on DeepMind's Genie 3 but is not a straight port: a specialized post-training process makes the model produce both 2D video and 3D lidar outputs of the same scene. Cameras capture fine visual detail, Waymo says, while lidar adds critical depth information

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Volunteer Reviewers Needed for AI for the Moon and Mars (ROSES C.12)

We are currently seeking reviewers for Foundational Artificial Intelligence for the Moon and Mars (ROSES C.12). Use the comments box below to tell us about anything that might be conflict of interest. Other than that just click the buttons. The form asks about previous panel experience, and requires an

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I built an iOS sewing-pattern app in two days using AI

When Apple released the Xcode 26.3 developer preview with enhanced AI integration, I needed a new project. My wife suggested a sewing pattern manager to help track large stashes of paper and digital patterns, and by combining a tightly integrated AI assistant with voice dictation I built a powerful

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Ai.Com, Founded by Kris Marszalek, Announces Upcoming AI Agents

AI platform ai.com, founded by Crypto.com co-founder and CEO Kris Marszalek, said it will launch an autonomous AI agent for retail consumers. The agentic AI can execute functions including trading stocks, workflow automation and simple tasks like calendar updates and managing changes to online social profiles. User data

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AI job listings hit record as broader hiring slows

Even as the broader US job market cools, AI keeps punching above its weight. Indeed data shows overall job postings ended 2025 just 6% above pre-pandemic levels, while postings that mention AI have climbed more than 130% since early 2020. More than one in 25 job listings now reference AI,

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Using ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity to check an NYC rent issue

I live in a former superintendent apartment in a prewar Manhattan co-op. Although I signed a market-rate lease, the unit’s rent history showed it had been registered as rent-stabilized in the 1980s with no obvious record of deregulation, so I wondered whether it might still be regulated. I uploaded

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Intel and AMD warn Chinese customers of server CPU shipment delays

Intel and AMD have notified Chinese customers of supply shortages affecting their server CPUs, with Intel chips said to carry lead times of up to six months. Server processors are drawing increased demand alongside GPUs and memory as the AI boom continues. TSMC appears to be prioritising AI GPUs, and

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Elon Musk’s Mega-Merger, Project Genie and Moltbook’s Next Steps

This week’s episode examines the heating A.I. initial-public-offering race and unpacks SpaceX’s acquisition of xAI, along with the messy situationship between OpenAI and Nvidia. The hosts tested Google’s experimental prototype, Project Genie, using it to generate and navigate video-game–like environments and discussed what the hands-on

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Roblox showcases experimental AI with a Clair Obscur-like demo

The Roblox Corporation has rolled out an experimental generative AI called 4D Generation, a feature launched yesterday that lets "bloxers" create "interactive 3D objects like cars, plans, and more" from simple prompts. Its research lab is also exploring a more experimental system dubbed 'real-time dreaming&