Tag: AI Platforms & Assistants
Meta is giving parents a kill switch for teen AI chats
Meta plans to roll out new parental controls around teens’ access to AI character chats on Instagram Parents will also get limited insights into what topics their teens discuss with chatbots. The changes follow public outcry over leaked documents showing bots made romantic and inappropriate comments to children. Meta announced…
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Nano Banana’s AI will soon fill Google Messages with custom memes
Google Messages is testing the Nano Banana AI image generator Nano Banana will likely make and edit images directly within chats The app has a hidden banana icon appearing during image long-presses Google’s Nano Banana AI image maker is on its way to the Messages app, according to code (and…
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We’re entering a new age of AI moderation, but it may be too late to rein in the chatbot beast
Remember when AI was cool and everything was awesome? Of course not. AI is still cool and kind of awesome, but also occasionally problematic, and now we’re quickly moving into the amelioration and moderation phase. This is the moment where, after delivering untold AI companions and friendly models that could…
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The internet is now mostly written by machines, study finds
AI now writes the majority of newly published articles online, according to a study from Graphite Despite the volume, most AI-generated articles don’t appear in Google search results or ChatGPT answers AI-written content seems to have plateaued this year More new articles online are written by artificial intelligence than by…
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This potential Google AI cancer treatment breakthrough could be AI’s moonshot moment
Where were you when AI discovered a potential new treatment for cancer? I was at my desk, writing this story. The news, announced by Google this week, October 15, is in a way delivering on a promise that AI would someday solve the world’s biggest problems. It’s the kind of…
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5 iPhone Apps supercharged by Apple Intelligence you can download right now
In iOS 26, Apple has given app developers access to Apple Intelligence’s Foundation Models via a framework they can incorporate into their apps. What does that mean exactly? Some of your favorite apps can now run Apple Intelligence-powered tasks directly, allowing developers to supercharge the user experience with the power…
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