Category: computing
Would you buy your child a ChatGPT‑powered Barbie? I’m queasy at the prospect of a real‑life Small Soldiers scenario
Mattel is partnering with OpenAI to build AI‑powered toys, which might lead to some amazing fun, but also sounds like the premise for a million stories of things going wrong. To be clear, I don’t think AI is going to end the world. I’ve used ChatGPT in a million ways,…
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OpenAI has upgraded ChatGPT’s Projects feature, and I find it makes working way more efficient
OpenAI has upgraded ChatGPT’s Projects feature to remember past chats, tone preferences, and files Projects now offers deep research, voice mode, mobile file uploads, and more OpenAI wants Projects to function more like smart workspaces than one-off chats ChatGPT’s Projects feature has been a useful way to organize conversations with…
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I tried Portraits: Google’s new way of turning real-life experts into your own personal AI life coach
Google’s new Portraits experiment lets users chat with AI avatars modeled on real experts. The project’s first Portrait is Radical Candor author Kim Scott. The avatar delivers advice based on Scott’s actual content and was developed with her direct involvement. Google is testing out a tool to connect people with…
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Quordle hints and answers for Saturday, June 14 (game #1237)
Looking for a different day? A new Quordle puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing ‘today’s game’ while others are playing ‘yesterday’s’. If you’re looking for Friday’s puzzle instead then click here: Quordle hints and answers for Friday,…
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AI comes to the URL with a new web browser that answers you back
The Browser Company has launched an AI-powered browser named Dia Dia integrates a personalized AI assistant directly into the address bar The AI lets you chat with tabs and will adapt to your style over time The Browser Company has a new way to travel the web using AI. Best…
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Can’t access Spotify or a part of Google? Everything we know about this outage impacting major services
Refresh 2025-06-12T20:07:45.693Z Cloudflare is having some critical issues (Image credit: Shutterstock/Sharaf Maksumov) Cloudflare has posted a new update as of 3:57 PM ET on its own status page, detailing a bit more about what is going on and the potential impact here. You can see the statement in full below,…
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