Tech

AI shopping beat search on Prime Day, rattling Amazon

Amazon built Prime Day to keep shoppers inside its own marketplace. This year, AI shopping sent its best customers in from outside: a chatbot made the recommendation.

We Need A Way To Prove Personhood Online

The growing number of AI agents roaming the internet will eventually force us to verify what the old web mostly presumed: that there is a morally and legally accountable person somewhere in the chain.

Google's AI boom sends emissions, power use soaring

Its electricity, water use and greenhouse gas emissions all climbed to record levels last year as the company raced to build more AI infrastructure.

Mark Zuckerberg says he doesn't buy the anxiety about AI-related job displacement

"I think that people assume that that's inevitability," Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said. "I don't actually think it is."

How Ancestry Uses LLMs for Record Digitization and Customer Tools

Ancestry employs AI and machine learning to expedite digitization of family records, boosting user tools and expanding historical data accessibility.

How Apple is Easing AI Cyber Concerns with Early Updates

Apple's latest iOS security update cycles are outpacing malicious hackers who use AI tools to quickly build advanced cyber exploits

X launches hosted MCP server so AI tools can plug into its API directly

X now offers a hosted MCP server that lets AI tools like Claude and Cursor connect to its API directly, joining GitHub, Slack, and Stripe in the MCP wave.

Libby will filter out AI content, kind of

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed.

Podcasting platform Riverside enters the newsletter publishing game

Users will be able use AI to create newsletters based on their recordings.

Amazon launches new $1 billion FDE org, following OpenAI and Anthropic

Engineers on the new team will embed within companies to deploy purpose-built agents, focusing on fast deployments and customer self-sufficiency.

Weird Al Doesn’t Care for Your Weird AI Jokes

The Grammy-winning satirical musician told Syracuse.com that he’s “not a fan” of the generative technology, and that he turned down “a nice pile of money” after walking away from a commerical for business productivity software.

Donald Trump’s AI regime is opaque, unpredictable—and unsustainable

AMERICAN LIFE is full of things that are billed as voluntary but turn out not to be. Tipping. Joining the local parent-teacher association. And now getting permission to release your cutting-edge artificial-intelligence model to the world.