Make AI apps smarter with real-time location, reviews, ratings, and more directly from Google Maps Image by fabio on Unsplash Let’s say you’re building a travel app. Your user asks for the best brunch spots near them on a sunny Sunday. Wouldn’t it be great if your app could answer like a local—with real-time hours, […]
Image by GuerrillaBuzz on Unsplash You’ve probably heard the buzz around vector databases. DuckDB, Pinecone, Weaviate, Milvus, pgvector — the list keeps growing. And while this sounds like great news for AI companies and data teams, there’s a catch: too much choice can quickly turn into a problem. If you’re building in AI — especially
Photo by hayleigh b on Unsplash OpenAI doesn’t want ChatGPT to be your hype person when it comes to politics anymore — and that’s not just about “bias.” It’s about stopping the chatbot from sounding like it shares your worldview. In a newly released research paper, OpenAI says it’s trying to reduce political bias in
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Photo by Pau Casals on Unsplash Let’s talk about something that feels like it’s straight out of a political thriller — except it’s real, and it’s happening right now on our social media feeds. Last Friday, Senate Republicans posted a deepfake video of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to their official X account. In it,
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Photo by Igor Shalyminov on Unsplash Recently, a wave of tension swept through the AI world. And no, it’s not a new chatbot going rogue — it’s Silicon Valley turning its fire on the very groups trying to make AI safer. If you’ve been keeping an eye on the push for AI safety, buckle up,
Image by GLADYSTONE FONSECA on Unsplash OpenAI just confirmed something that’s bound to stir up conversations—erotic chat with ChatGPT will be allowed for verified adults starting this December. Yep, you read that right. It’s a major shift in how OpenAI is handling adult content, and it’s all part of their “treat adult users like adults”
Image by DL314 Lin on Unsplash Last week, Ars Technica hosted a strikingly candid live chat with Ed Zitron, tech critic and host of the podcast Better Offline. The big question: Is generative AI a trillion-dollar transformation or just a $50 billion illusion? Let’s talk about it. “Everyone’s Acting Like It’s Something It Isn’t” Right
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Photo by Vitaly Gariev on Unsplash If you’re a parent trying to keep up with your teen’s digital life, take a breath. Meta just announced they’re adding a handful of parental controls aimed specifically at teen interactions with AI characters on platforms like Instagram. And while all of this might sound futuristic and a little
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Image by Waldemar Brandt on Unsplash When Tech Meets Ethics: How a Powerful AI Tool Crossed the Line and What OpenAI Is Doing About It OpenAI is hitting pause on one of the core features in its new video-generating platform, Sora—and honestly, it’s a move that couldn’t have come soon enough. On Thursday, OpenAI announced
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Photo by Alexander Sinn on Unsplash Think of it this way: five months ago, Anthropic released a coding model so capable, they called it one of the best in the world. Now they’ve managed to squeeze nearly all that power into a lighter, faster, and shockingly cheaper version called Claude Haiku 4.5 — and it’s
