A look at the rise of AI companionship apps; a researcher found 206 on Apple's App Store and 253 on Google Play, with a total of 220M+ downloads as of July 2025
1. The first trend is a decline in people using dating apps like Tinder & Bumble. — 2. The rise of AI companion (aka AI girlfriend) apps. — 3. Using ChatGPT to write messages to people you're dati...
Tesla's Austin robotaxi service gets a limited launch, with ~10 Model Y vehicles and safety drivers; Elon Musk says initial users will pay “a $4.20 flat fee”
or want to know—about Tesla's robotaxi service David Pierce / The Verge : Tesla's robotaxi reality check Richard Brack / Austin American-Statesman : Tesla robotaxis begin rolling in Austin, but only f...
A look at Manus, which its Chinese creators claim is the world's first fully autonomous AI agent, as some say it might be China's second DeepSeek moment
Manus is a general AI agent that bridges minds and actions: it doesn't just think, it delivers results. Luiza Jarovsky / Luiza's Newsletter : ✋ Manus AI: Why Everyone Should Worry ecns : ECNS Wire — ...
OpenAI unveils GPT-4o, a new flagship generative AI model that is faster and natively multimodal, rolling out for free to all ChatGPT users in the coming weeks
There are two things from our announcement today I wanted to highlight. OpenAI : Hello GPT-4o — We're announcing GPT-4o, our new flagship model that can reason across audio, vision, and text in real...
Arc Search's Browse for Me feature, which creates custom webpages with search result summaries, faces a backlash over concerns about losing monetizable traffic
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Q&A with Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth on generative AI reshaping Meta, facial recognition, regulations, open source, Llama, AGI, recruiting, Mistral AI, and more
but this is not remotely an apocalypse. @maxamaxim : his take is correct-ish, the hype/marketing around certain tech as agi doesn't always match up with reality it's not to say that there aren't dange...