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An AI company paid humans to climax with a bot. It now claims big stress and focus wins.

Joi AI claim that after AI-guided masturbation sessions, stress levels reduced by 25% and restlessness trickled down by 19% on average.
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Google Sheets can now turn your boring spreadsheets into mini-apps

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Heart X1 soars for the first time as the world’s largest electric aircraft, and the flight cost just $5 in electricity

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AI’s new cancer-screening partner has four legs and a very good nose

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AI agents are sitting through students’ online courses, and colleges are struggling to stop them

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Researchers built a tiny wearable patch that measures cholesterol levels from your sweat

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Chinese startup claims its brain implant takes just 10 minutes to place, no skull surgery required

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This bizarre email flaw is leaking corporate secrets to anyone who buys the right domain

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I found 3 ChatGPT features that turned out to be way more useful than I expected

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Anker just exposed a big problem with portable power stations

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OpenAI’s first gadget sounds like a tiny expressive AI companion

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Google Antigravity just built an AI translator that works without the internet

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After switching to ChatGPT Voice, typing now feels painfully slow

I started talking to ChatGPT out of curiosity. Now my keyboard gets more breaks than I do.
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After a week with Gemini Notebook on my Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra, I can’t imagine using it on a slab phone

I thought Gemini Notebook was great already — until I tried it on a foldable. Now I don't want to use it any other way.
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ChatGPT Pro replaced Gemini Notebook as my favorite research app, and I didn’t see it coming

I never expected to stop using Gemini Notebook, but ChatGPT Pro gradually became the one app I opened for almost everything.
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AI chatbots will happily create fake news articles, and tests show ChatGPT is the worst at it

A new investigation suggests today's biggest AI chatbots can still generate convincing fake news articles with ChatGPT emerging as the easiest to manipulate.
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DeepSeek just slashed AI prices again, and China’s AI race is getting even messier

DeepSeek's latest AI model is cheaper than ever, but the growing price war could have lasting consequences for China's AI industry.
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AI slop stories are spoiling the childhood

AI-generated slop books are already a headache for the publishing world and readers. Now, boomers are gifting personalized AI-written story books to young kids.
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OpenAI is investigating more incidents of AI agents going rogue days after hack

According to Reuters, OpenAI is investigating more incidents of AI agents breaking containment, merely days after its AI agents went rogue and hacked Hugging Face.
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Google just canceled its AI Studio mobile app, and it’s not all bad news

Google AI Studio was on track to make its way to Android and iPhone, giving developers and AI enthusiasts a dedicated place to build prompts and experiment with Google’s latest models from their phones. That’s no longer happening. In a post shared by the official Google AI Studio account on X, Google confirmed that it’s […]
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Google Earth’s AI misadventure lasted only a day. It was a tale of dangerous ignorance.

Google Earth thought users will play it cool with using AI images on a realistic map. Well, it was a short-lived disaster of epic proportions.
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Google’s new AI gives robots better balance, smarter hands, and teamwork capabilities

Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics 2 lets humanoid robots walk, handle delicate tasks, and coordinate with other robots, all while staying safer around humans
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Remember Samsung’s Ballie home robot? It may finally be inching closer to reality

Leaked wireframe images reveal Samsung Ballie's companion smartphone app, showing camera streaming, room-specific controls, and home-mapping features.
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Polar is yet another AI browser, but it goes beyond just automating the mundane web chores

Polar has raised $5.7 million to build an AI browser that automates workplace tasks, reflecting a broader industry shift away from AI-powered search and toward browser agents.
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I use ChatGPT Pro everyday, and these 3 features keep me subscribed

I finally gave ChatGPT Pro a proper chance, and these three features made it impossible to cancel.
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The music industry wants AI slop kicked off the charts, and it finally has a plan

Nearly a dozen major record labels, including Universal, Sony, and Warner, are pushing global music charts to disqualify AI-generated songs tied to streaming fraud.
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AI isn’t just being forced on us. Even forest monkeys are now a test audience in the name of science

AI has already made its way into almost every aspect of our lives. Now it's showing up in the rainforest, where wild capuchin monkeys are using an AI-powered touchscreen to earn banana rewards as part of a unique scientific study.
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AI turned a disgraced President under house arrest into a live avatar for another election campaign

An AI-generated Jair Bolsonaro endorsed his son’s presidential campaign despite the former Brazilian leader’s house arrest, election ban, and restrictions on public communication.
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AI can turn a cloud of scuba bubbles into an early warning for divers

University of Minnesota researchers taught an underwater robot to estimate a diver’s breathing from exhaled bubbles, creating a contactless monitor that could eventually flag unusual respiration without pretending it can diagnose distress.
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Microsoft wants AI to catch hackers before they even attack

Microsoft's new Project Perception uses AI agents to hunt down hackers before they strike, and it might change cybersecurity forever.
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Nike’s new slide is basically a spa day for your feet

Nike and Hyperice's new Air Zoom Hyperslide pairs soft Air Zoom cushioning with heat and vibration therapy, giving tired feet a proper recovery session after workouts, travel, or a long day.
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That Claude chat you shared? Google may have seen it too

Public Claude chat links and Artifacts were indexed by Google, exposing shared conversations online. Here's what happened and what Anthropic says about it.
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The AI-hooked younger generation is sourcing chatbot help even for in-person talks

Young adults are turning to ChatGPT to script texts, dating messages, and even in-person conversations, worrying mental health experts about growing "self-mistrust."
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Google Flow Music Spaces is becoming an all-in-one AI music studio

Google has rolled out a major update for Flow Music Spaces, adding AI-powered song editing, stem splitting, image generation, lyrics, and video creation to its collaborative workspaces.
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A Florida pastor asked ChatGPT if he was okay. It nearly got him killed.

A Florida pastor is suing OpenAI after ChatGPT dismissed his symptoms as harmless for weeks, he later suffered a near-fatal blood clot doctors blame on the bot's advice.
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Scientists made robots curious like toddlers, and it helped them learn language twice as fast

Researchers at OIST gave a virtual robot curiosity, and it learned language twice as fast, playful detours and toddler grammar slip-ups included.
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You can now buy a computer mouse controlled entirely by your tongue

Augmental has opened public US sales of its tongue-controlled MouthPad and released a beta of Vox, a new device built to handle hands-free dictation.
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Yet another study says AI is bad for elections, and the rabbit hole gets worse

ChatGPT and Gemini failed to reliably match voters with Hungarian parties, adding another warning as campaigns and manipulators learn how easily AI answers can be shaped.