Tag: AI Platforms & Assistants

‘A secret agreement’: Microsoft urges judge to throw out claims it colluded with OpenAI to boost ChatGPT prices — could this be the needle to pop the AI bubble?

Microsoft seeks dismissal of lawsuit alleging Azure exclusivity inflated ChatGPT subscription pricing Judge questions arbitration claims tied to OpenAI agreements and Microsoft legal arguments Subscribers argue compute supply restrictions limited output and increased service costs A group of ChatGPT Plus subscribers is facing pushback in court after Microsoft asked a…

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‘That felt wrong’: Dev uses Claude to expose why a popular No-Code platform wants to read “all your prompts”

Consent prompt appears even in projects without Vercel configuration Plugin delivers consent requests through system-level instruction injection Bash commands are captured fully, including sensitive environment details A developer examining the Vercel plugin inside Claude Code found that a telemetry consent request appeared unexpectedly during unrelated work. The project contained no…

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‘Accuracy over volume’: Here’s why high-value pros are using AI to work slower, not faster

Top earners use AI tools to verify decisions before execution, not to create ideas Executives now prioritize accuracy and error prevention over speed in AI workflows Mid-level professionals rely less on AI for structured decision validation processes The early narrative around artificial intelligence promised speed, scale, and unprecedented output. A…

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I’m a smart glasses expert — and Apple’s rumored Meta Ray-Bans rivals could tempt me to switch thanks to one key strength

Apple is working on smart glasses that should be revealed later this year, according to leaks AI AirPods and an AI pendant are also planned Apple’s privacy-first approach could help it win with AI glasses Every tech company and its dog is cramming AI into whatever system it can, and…

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‘I hadn’t verified a single thing’: Using ChatGPT for Iran war news changed how I trust information

A few weeks ago I started deliberately using ChatGPT to follow the latest news about the Iran war. It was partly a test to see how chatbots compare to traditional news sites at presenting real-time information, and partly because the pace of the news at the time was overwhelming. But…

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I matched the upgraded Meta AI against ChatGPT, and you can really tell which AI has social media roots

Meta debuted its upgraded Meta AI chatbot this week, showing off plenty of tricks made possible by the new Muse Spark model embedded in the chatbot. The social media giant’s AI can’t deny its origins, behaving more than a little like a social media influencer who’s not scrolling their feeds.…

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