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The AI Singer Making $3M For Its Human Creator

The AI Singer Making $3M For Its Human Creator

AI artists chart on Billboard weekly now, plus Google's booking agent goes live, Apple pays $1B for Siri upgrade, PewDiePie builds 10-GPU AI lab, and Tinder scans your photos

James Swierczewski

James Swierczewski

Google's AI Just Discovered a New Cancer Pathway

Google's AI Just Discovered a New Cancer Pathway

Google's Gemma discovers cancer pathway confirmed in labs, AI writes 46% of code at tech companies, Stanford cuts diagnosis time from 5 years to 3 months

James Swierczewski

James Swierczewski

The AI Model That Knows When You're Testing It

The AI Model That Knows When You're Testing It

Claude Sonnet 4.5 detects when it's being tested, plus Apple shelves Vision Pro for AI glasses, OpenAI turns ChatGPT into app platform, and Figure 03 at $39B

James Swierczewski

James Swierczewski

OpenAI's Sora 2 Turns Video Into a Social Feed – And It's Already Breaking App Store Records

OpenAI's Sora 2 Turns Video Into a Social Feed – And It's Already Breaking App Store Records

Samsung and SK Hynix partner with OpenAI on Stargate chip deal, AI-generated actress Tilly Norwood sparks SAG-AFTRA backlash, eBay gives sellers ChatGPT Enterprise access, Alpha School uses AI for core instruction, HHS doubles childhood cancer AI research funding

James Swierczewski

James Swierczewski

Spotify’s Data Rebellion: Users Cash In on Their Own Playlists

Spotify’s Data Rebellion: Users Cash In on Their Own Playlists

Will Smith’s AI concert, oceans turned transparent, Albania’s virtual minister, Claude creates files, Lamborghini’s AI sensor, Taipei’s patrol robot dog

James Swierczewski

James Swierczewski

ChatGPT Unlocked: AI Moves from Cloud to Your Laptop For Free

ChatGPT Unlocked: AI Moves from Cloud to Your Laptop For Free

Open-weight models, AI chess, Siri gets GPT-5, military drones, AI storybooks, Robot dogs are getting faster

James Swierczewski

James Swierczewski

Al at the Gates — Google Rolls Out AI Age-Estimation Across Its Empire

Al at the Gates — Google Rolls Out AI Age-Estimation Across Its Empire

AI-made TV, ChatGPT privacy leak, 100-agent research, UK VPN spike, virtual scientists, laundry-folding robot

James Swierczewski

James Swierczewski

Ghost Tracks, Real Streams: Spotify’s Phantom Band Exposed

Ghost Tracks, Real Streams: Spotify’s Phantom Band Exposed

Privacy audit crowns Le Chat, Apple Vision roadmap leaks, Senate nixes AI freeze, Cloudflare tolls crawlers, Perplexity’s $200 tier, Amazon hits 1 million robots

James Swierczewski

James Swierczewski

Digital Doppelgängers: How AI Video Cloning Is Redefining Identity in the Synthetic Age

Digital Doppelgängers: How AI Video Cloning Is Redefining Identity in the Synthetic Age

Google AI Scam Shields, Meta Smart Glasses Go All‐Seeing, Finch Bio‐AI Arrives, Deepfake Victim Testimony, Alphabet Stock Slides, Digit Robot Wins Funding

James Swierczewski

James Swierczewski

Sam Altman’s World ID Device Could Reshape Digital Identity — But At What Cost?

Sam Altman’s World ID Device Could Reshape Digital Identity — But At What Cost?

Plus AI TV shows, robot truck deliveries, benchmark tampering, Lyft’s driver assistant, Yelp’s voice AI, and UPS testing humanoid robots

James Swierczewski

James Swierczewski

Siri Meet Her Match-Perplexity AI Unveils iPhone Voice Assistant

Siri Meet Her Match-Perplexity AI Unveils iPhone Voice Assistant

Meta Ray-Ban Smart Glasses Translate Live, AI DJ Debuts, OpenAI Mulls Chrome Buy, AI Bar Exam Questions Exposed, Windows Recall Rolls Out, Robots Learn New Skills

James Swierczewski

James Swierczewski

OpenAI’s ChatGPT O Models Continue to Set the Pace in Multi-Modal AI

OpenAI’s ChatGPT O Models Continue to Set the Pace in Multi-Modal AI

Flex AI, Free Student Gemini, Safer Gaming, Claude’s New Tools & RoboBee’s Landing Tech: This Week in AI + Robotics

James Swierczewski

James Swierczewski

Can AI Predict Murders Before They Happen? The UK Thinks So

Can AI Predict Murders Before They Happen? The UK Thinks So

AI Lawyer Avatars, YouTube's No Fakes Act, Google's Agent2Agent Protocol, James Cameron on Generative AI Filmmaking, and Anthropic's Claude Premium Launch

James Swierczewski

James Swierczewski

Anthropic Finds AI Isn't Faithful and Still Cannot Be Trusted Fully

Anthropic Finds AI Isn't Faithful and Still Cannot Be Trusted Fully

Explore Meta’s new LLaMA 4 models, Midjourney’s visual upgrade, a robotic horse from Japan, political chatbots, $308M in AI video funding, and a bold new take on search.

James Swierczewski

James Swierczewski

Google’s New AI Assistant Can Changes the Course of Humanity

Google’s New AI Assistant Can Changes the Course of Humanity

AI Note-Takers, Photo-Real Images, Predictive Prospecting & Digital Doppelgängers and Robots that Walk the Walk: This Week in Emerging Tech

James Swierczewski

James Swierczewski

Luna the Robodog Learns Like a Living Creature

Luna the Robodog Learns Like a Living Creature

Apple’s M3 Ultra shines, Claude gets smarter, AI runs a newsroom, and Google targets drug discovery with open models

James Swierczewski

James Swierczewski

Google’s AI Assistant: Game-Changer or Privacy Nightmare?

Google’s AI Assistant: Game-Changer or Privacy Nightmare?

From Rivian’s hands-free driving and Google’s ultra-efficient AI model to biohybrid robotic hands, AI-powered fraud prevention, and Xbox’s gaming assistant—AI is reshaping tech everywhere.

James Swierczewski

James Swierczewski

ChatGPT Considers $20,000 Per Month Subscription

ChatGPT Considers $20,000 Per Month Subscription

China’s Autonomous AI Agent, Neuralink’s ‘Telepathy’ Trademark, AI in Nuclear Defense, Turing Award Winners Warn of AI Dangers, Japan's Robot Helpers, and Google’s Scam Detection Update

James Swierczewski

James Swierczewski

ChatGPT 4.5 Flops as Hype Does Not Meet Expectations

ChatGPT 4.5 Flops as Hype Does Not Meet Expectations

Amazon’s Quantum Ambitions, Alexa’s AI Upgrades, AI's Inventing Language from Chaos, Diffusion Style AI Text Generation, Autonomous DJI Drones, and Self-Building Robots

James Swierczewski

James Swierczewski

Grok 3 Breaks the AI Mold: Elon Musk’s New Model Never Stops Learning

Grok 3 Breaks the AI Mold: Elon Musk’s New Model Never Stops Learning

Google’s AI Co-Scientist, Microsoft’s Quantum Leap, Figure's In the House, Fiverr’s Freelancer Royalties, Freepik's Free Videos, and Flying Cars Take Off

James Swierczewski

James Swierczewski

Meta's AI Breakthrough: Decoding Human Thoughts

Meta's AI Breakthrough: Decoding Human Thoughts

IRS Deploys AI Supercomputer for Tax Audits, Meta's Bold Move into Humanoid Robots, and xAI's Grok 3 Chatbot Set to Outperform Rivals

James Swierczewski

James Swierczewski

GPT Operator? Please Automate My Life. Thanks!

GPT Operator? Please Automate My Life. Thanks!

AI Heart Health Predictions, Google’s 3 Billion Bet, China's DeepSeek Challenger, and a 'Soft'-Heavy-Lifting Robot

James Swierczewski

James Swierczewski

OpenAI's New Tasks Feature Is Stage 3 of Artificial General Intelligence

OpenAI's New Tasks Feature Is Stage 3 of Artificial General Intelligence

From Life-Extending AI and Grocery Store Bots to hints at a 2025 Meta Shake-Up

James Swierczewski

James Swierczewski

NVIDIA Takes the Wheel: Driving the Future of AI in Cars

NVIDIA Takes the Wheel: Driving the Future of AI in Cars

From Robot Girlfriends to AI Healthcare Agents, 2025 promises to be interesting

James Swierczewski

James Swierczewski

Sriram Krishnan Chosen to Shape AI Policy In New Administration

Sriram Krishnan Chosen to Shape AI Policy In New Administration

Lab Bots, Smart Glasses, and Humanoid Dreams: How AI is Reshaping Tomorrow, Today

James Swierczewski

James Swierczewski