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AI stories that cross categories — culture, ethics, real-world deployments, and the unexpected ways artificial intelligence is showing up across industries and everyday life.
Orchid, an AI assistant, promises to resolve relationship issues by managing tasks for unthoughtful partners, as seen in a viral ad where it handles a forgotten anniversary.
A Yale MBA student sued the university after being accused of using generative AI on a final exam, leading to a year-long suspension and an F grade.
Friend, the AI wearable that sends text messages about users' days, now includes a voice feature and costs $249, up from $99.
Friend 2, the AI companion device, now speaks aloud after a $129 price hike to $249, with a new design and voice options.
Writers are adopting a deliberate anti-AI style to resist AI-generated prose, as seen in a novel where the author avoided em dashes and tripartite lists.
Google's SynthID watermark remains detectable even after 300 compression cycles, but small crops can remove it, according to testing.
Parents report kids are bored by AI-generated books, which often lack humor and coherence. A 41-year-old father says his children prefer classic stories over AI-made ones.
Google Search's AI tools help users plan dinner parties with features like visualizing tablescapes and recommending menus, based on trending queries from July 2026.
Google Search's AI Mode offers five ways to help users find offline experiences, with searches for 'how to digital detox' rising 110% this year.
The New York Times publisher spent $20 million on a legal fight against OpenAI and Microsoft over copyright claims, as the Trump administration targets press freedoms.
OpenAI found 43.5% of work-related ChatGPT queries involved tasks outside users' professions, with marketing and engineering most affected.
Shared Claude chat threads were indexed by search engines despite robots.txt restrictions, exposing sensitive user conversations.