Google announces even more AI in Photos app, powered by Nano Banana

Google’s Nano Banana is powering a raft of new features in the app.

Forget AGI—Sam Altman celebrates ChatGPT finally following em dash formatting rules

Ongoing struggles with AI model instruction-following show that true human-level AI still a ways off.

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It’s a fun new format, but finding a place in the market may be challenging.

“We’re in an LLM bubble,” Hugging Face CEO says—but not an AI one

The risks of AI investment in manufacturing and other areas are less clear.

OpenAI walks a tricky tightrope with GPT-5.1’s eight new personalities

New controls attempt to please critics on both sides with a balance between bland and habit-forming.

Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week

Plex is starting to enforce its new rules, which prevent users from remotely accessing a personal media server without a subscription fee.

Microsoft tries to head off the “novel security risks” of Windows 11 AI agents

Agents with read/write access to your files create big security, privacy issues.

Researchers isolate memorization from problem-solving in AI neural networks

Basic arithmetic ability lives in the memorization pathways, not logic circuits.

Google tells employees it must double capacity every 6 months to meet AI demand

Google’s AI infrastructure chief tells staff it needs thousandfold capacity increase in 5 years.

Google’s Sundar Pichai warns of “irrationality” in trillion-dollar AI investment boom

Sundar Pichai says no company is immune if AI bubble bursts, echoing dotcom fears.

Meta’s star AI scientist Yann LeCun plans to leave for own startup

AI pioneer reportedly frustrated with Meta’s shift from research to rapid product releases.

DeepMind’s latest: An AI for handling mathematical proofs

AlphaProof can handle math challenges but needs a bit of help right now.