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Stop Chasing the Latest AI Models: They're Rarely Worth Your Time or Money

Unless you're coding or stress-testing benchmarks, the "latest and greatest" usually won't change how you use AI.

The fanfiction community is at war with AI — and itself

Over the past week, a new fanworks movement has kicked off, with the aim to root out authors using generative AI. But the ...

AI coding has split software engineers into tribes. Meet the fans, skeptics — and those in between.

The discourse around AI often focuses on those who entirely embrace — or deeply despise — the tech. For engineers, the truth ...
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Google Opal solves the most serious problem non-coders face, and not even Claude or local AI could solve it better

The only no-code automation platform deserves more attention than it gets ...
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AI Benchmark Cheating Sets Record: GPT-5.6 Sol Gamed Its Own Safety Tests

AI benchmark cheating has been theorized as an inevitable consequence of training capable optimizers against fixed metrics. With OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol, the theory arrived in full view. The nonprofit ...

OpenAI explains why Codex burned through credits faster than usual — and says a fix is live

OpenAI resolves Codex usage limit issues caused by background tasks consuming excess compute, resetting user caps to prevent ...
CNET

Chrome Has Been Secretly Downloading AI to Your Computer. Here's What You Can Do

Chrome has been automatically downloading Gemini Nano (a 4GB AI model) to users' computers without notification or an easy way to prevent it. Alex Valdes from Bellevue, Washington has been pumping ...