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Google's Gemini has a branding problem, and so does the rest of AI

Consumer AI apps need to stop making users learn their product architecture.

How do we explain OpenAI's executive exodus?

Was Greg Brockman the right executive all along?

Google's New AI Transcription Edits Out Your ‘Ums’ and ‘Ahs’

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Meta to pay up to $18bn to settle children’s social media harm case

Case relating to alleged failures of child protection was getting under way in California

Apple announces September iPhone launch event

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Radar makes podcasts searchable — and usable by AI agents

Particle’s new podcast intelligence platform transcribes and analyzes more than 130,000 podcasts, making their conversations searchable on the web and accessible to AI agents through an API and MCP.

Mystery solved: Chinese lab Z.ai says it’s behind the Ox Alpha model that wowed Silicon Valley

The free AI coding model sparked widespread interest among developers after appearing anonymously on OpenRouter.

Gene Wilder resurrected with AI

The latest trailer for Netflix’s Willy Wonka-inspired reality competition show features a lot more voiceover from an AI-generated clone of Gene Wilder. The AI of it all was already ridiculous, but it’s even weirder to hear how much the AI voice sounds like Wilder doing an impression of RuPaul explaining Drag Race challenges.

Amazon is shutting down a go-to option for gig workers. It's the latest casualty of AI growth.

Amazon is shutting down its Mechanical Turk platform by September 30, impacting gig workers as AI increasingly handles simple tasks.

Ads of the future may bring you to an AI agent.

In a broad-ranging feature from Time on OpenAI, the company reveals it has been testing a new kind of sponsored ad. Clicking through an ad with “sponsored agents” would bring you into “an AI experience presented by a brand.”

Bill Gates wants to see a robot tax and 'Human Reserved' jobs to mitigate harms from AI

Gates is mostly in the Responsible AI camp, but there are a few ideas in here we hadn't heard before.

Xbox announces disc-to-digital feature that digitizes your physical games

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