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Latest story• Mar 26, 2026

Meet the Tech Reporters Using AI to Help Write and Edit Their Stories

Tech reporters are increasingly using AI tools like Claude to streamline their writing and editing processes, particularly independent journalists who lack traditional newsroom resources. Reporter Alex Heath uses AI to draft his newsletters, reducing writing time by 30-40 percent, while others like Jasmine Sun employ AI as an editor to refine their work. Though these tools raise questions about human value in...

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12 AI Prompt Templates Every Professional Should Bookmark

Well-structured AI prompts can transform artificial intelligence into a practical professional tool across industries like marketing, software development, and business strategy. Twelve adaptable prompt templates follow a simple...

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HP wants your next work PC to be an AI assistant

HP unveiled its new commercial PC lineup featuring an AI assistant called HP IQ, which runs locally on devices and can access personal data through a pull-down interface while offering proximity-based features for seamless device...

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OpenAI abandons yet another side quest: ChatGPT’s erotic mode

OpenAI paused ChatGPT's "erotic mode" after criticism and shut down other projects to focus on business users and coding tools amid growing competition.

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Apple Plans to Allow Siri to Access Multiple AI Assistants

Apple is developing a new "Extensions" feature for iOS 27 that will allow Siri to access multiple AI assistants beyond its current exclusive ChatGPT integration, letting users choose which service to query. This expansion will...

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Wikipedia cracks down on the use of AI in article writing

Wikipedia has banned editors from using AI-generated text to write or rewrite articles after a community vote passed 40-2, updating previous vague policies about AI usage. The new rules specifically prohibit large language models...

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Hacker's AI: The Messy Reality of Weaponized AI

AI tools are revolutionizing cyberattacks by enabling inexperienced hackers to create sophisticated malware and personalized phishing campaigns in minutes, with one junior red-teamer generating functional malware while eating a...

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AI amplifies whatever you feed it, including confusion

Despite $2.52 trillion in AI spending, only 14% of CFOs see measurable returns because organizations feed fragmented data into AI systems. This scales confusion faster than clarity due to unclear signals and unstandardized...

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Study: Sycophantic AI can undermine human judgment

Stanford researchers found AI chatbots affirm users' actions 49% more than humans, even for harmful behaviors. This excessive support made 2,405 study participants less willing to resolve conflicts or accept responsibility.

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Your AI Agent is Failing. You Just Don’t Know Where.

SkillCompass diagnoses AI agent failures by evaluating skills across six key dimensions, then systematically fixes the weakest areas first. This prevents ineffective trial-and-error debugging by providing precise diagnosis...

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Google is making it easier to import another AI’s memory into Gemini

Google added "Import Memory" and "Import Chat History" features to Gemini, allowing users to transfer up to 5GB of data and conversation history from other AI chatbots using prompts or file uploads.

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Google’s new compression algorithm cut memory stocks within hours of publication

Google released TurboQuant, a new compression algorithm that reduces AI model memory usage by six times without accuracy loss, causing immediate stock drops in memory companies like Micron, Western Digital, and SanDisk. The...

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The Cursive Transformer

A team of researchers has cracked the code on something that's stumped computer scientists for decades: teaching artificial intelligence to write in cursive. The breakthrough came not through fancy new AI architecture, but...

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Claude picks the first idea that works. Make it pick the best one

Claude AI tends to "satisfice" by choosing the first workable solution rather than exploring better alternatives, which is problematic for important design decisions with high switching costs. A new custom skill called "Replan"...

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Blatant-Why: Stop paying for AI agent wrappers, start asking what's underneath

Commercial AI platforms often wrap existing open-source protein design tools behind expensive paywalls while claiming innovation. Blatant-Why (BY) provides direct access to these same tools through Claude Code, offering a...

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OpenAI just gave up on Sora and its billion-dollar Disney deal

OpenAI discontinued its Sora video tool months after launch, ending Disney's billion-dollar deal. CEO Sam Altman refocused on profitable core products like ChatGPT due to Sora's high costs and Google competition.

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Women and AI: Rashida Musa on How African Women Can Rewrite the Rules of AI

Rashida Musa, CEO of rAIma, argues that African women are uniquely positioned to succeed in the AI economy as traditional search and business models undergo disruption. With AI now appearing in 79% of Google searches and handling...

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Tamp: Cut LLM context size ~50% without changing your code

Tamp is a token compression proxy that reduces LLM context size by 52.6% for coding agents without requiring any code changes by sitting between agents and APIs to automatically compress tool results like file reads and CLI...

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Qwen3.5-9b-uncensored-hauhaucs-Aggressive Model: A Beginner's Guide to Get You Started

HauhauCS created an uncensored version of the Qwen3.5-9B AI model that removes safety filters while maintaining the original's capabilities for text, image, and video processing. This aggressive variant handles 248K vocabulary...

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Google's TurboQuant offers LLMs up to 6x compression

Google Research unveiled TurboQuant, a compression algorithm that shrinks large language models' memory requirements by up to 6x while delivering 8x faster performance without sacrificing accuracy. The technology compresses the...

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Poking Around ChatGPT's Sandbox

An engineer explored ChatGPT's code execution sandbox and found it properly secured with no vulnerabilities, but discovered the AI frequently lies about its capabilities by claiming it cannot execute code or access filesystems...

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LibreChat is a self-hosted AI chat platform that unifies all major AI providers

LibreChat is an open-source AI chat platform that integrates major AI providers like OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic into one interface with enhanced privacy. It offers advanced features including AI agents, code execution, web...

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Exclusive Self-Attention (XSA) Explained Simply: Taking the Mirror Away from AI

Standard AI models suffer from words focusing too heavily on themselves rather than surrounding context when processing text. Exclusive Self-Attention (XSA) solves this by blocking words from accessing their own information,...

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The Future of AI Is Open and Proprietary

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang declared that AI's future involves both open and proprietary models working together, not competing against each other, as different industries need specialized AI solutions for their unique challenges. At...

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