You must stay focused. You cannot open TikTok, Instagram, or whatever little phone games you like to play. If you fail, you will make an anthropomorphic bean very sad, because its knitting project depends on your ability to stay focused.…
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has launched an investigation into Meta AI Studio and Character.AI for potentially engaging in deceptive trade practices and misleadingly marketing themselves as mental health tools. The announcement was made in a press release issued on…
Anna Monaco has been building AI agents long before the term “AI agents” became popular. After creating multiple chatbots, she explored other interfaces that could work well with AI and eventually focused on spreadsheets. She noticed a common pattern where…
Linktree, the popular link-in-bio service used by millions of creators and businesses, has been inaccessible in India for several days. The sudden disappearance from the Indian web remains a mystery, even to the Australian startup itself. Over the past week,…
AI startup Perplexity is enhancing its Finance dashboard with live transcriptions of quarterly earnings calls for Indian public companies. The update also includes a calendar to display schedules for post-results conference calls. The Finance dashboard already provides market summaries, stock…
Workday, one of the largest providers of human resources technology, has confirmed a data breach that allowed hackers to steal personal information from one of its third-party customer relationship databases. In a blog post published late Friday, the HR technology…
Grammarly has introduced a new document-based interface, built on the technology of Coda, the productivity startup it acquired last year. The updated interface includes an AI assistant and a suite of AI tools designed for students and professionals, such as…
OpenAI announced late Friday that it is updating its latest model to be “warmer and friendlier.” The company recently launched the much-anticipated GPT-5 in a process that CEO Sam Altman admitted was “a little more bumpy than we’d hoped for.”…
Netflix could soon lose the creative team behind one of its biggest hits. Earlier this week, reports surfaced that Matt and Ross Duffer, the brothers who created “Stranger Things” and directed many of its episodes, were in talks to sign…
Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn faced significant criticism this year after announcing that Duolingo would become an “AI-first company.” In a recent interview, he clarified that the backlash stemmed from a lack of context rather than disagreement within the company.…
