OpenAI introduces ChatGPT Work, a cloud-based AI agent that manages tasks across email, Slack and calendars
OpenAI on Thursday launched ChatGPT Work, a new AI agent embedded inside its flagship chatbot that aims to transform ChatGPT from a question-and-answer tool into an autonomous work platform capable of executing complex, multi-step tasks across users’ email, calendars, code repositories, and messaging apps. The product is powered by OpenAI’s latest flagship model, GPT-5.6, and […]
Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets
Apple has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI today, accusing the company of trade secret theft. Specifically, Apple alleges that its former employees have stolen trade secrets “for the benefit of OpenAI.” “This case is about Apple’s former employees stealing Apple’s trade secrets for the benefit of OpenAI. Apple brings this suit to put a stop […]
Meta removes feature that let users generate AI images from public Instagram posts
Meta AI joined the image generation space this week. However, it did so with a controversial default setting that users found upsetting. Meta’s tool allowed anyone to use public Instagram posts as a starting point for creating AI-generated images. Instagram users needed to proactively turn off permission to avoid having their content easily tagged and […]
OpenAI responds to Apple’s trade secret theft lawsuit
OpenAI has issued a formal statement in response to Apple’s lawsuit accusing the company of trade secret theft. Read it below. OpenAI denies Apple’s allegations Earlier today, Apple filed a lawsuit against former employees Chang Liu and Tang Tan, as well as OpenAI and io Products, alleging “trade secret misappropriation and breach of contract.” In […]
WSJ: Apple avoided semiconductor tariffs last year thanks to Intel chip deal
Intel in the U.S. is expected to make at least some upcoming Mac and iPhone chips for Apple. That recent development may have been the key to a major tariff exemption on semiconductors Apple received almost a year ago. Robbie Whelan, reporting for The Wall Street Journal on Friday (Apple News link): Tim Cook was […]
Meta just pulled its most controversial AI image generation feature days after launch
A couple of days ago, I covered Meta’s announcement of the Muse Image, an AI tool that lets users generate images based on someone’s Instagram profile without asking the account owner. I also highlighted the risks associated with it in another piece, along with steps for opting out. Three days later, the feature is no […]
YouTube’s AI-powered search is rolling out in the US to find videos based on situations you describe
YouTube users in the U.S. are getting a new way to search for videos on the web. The company has started rolling out Ask YouTube, its conversational AI search experience, beyond the Premium-only test announced at Google I/O 2026. Instead of entering a few keywords and scrolling through a standard list of results, users can […]
Why Do Some Speed Limit Signs Have Fractions?
lynn friedman/Shutterstock Drivers are familiar with all kinds of road signs, even those that don’t always make sense. Through the years, reports of silly signs or even those that are mildly inappropriate have gone viral on social media platforms. While the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) cracked down […]
57% of enterprises have watched AI agents be confidently wrong. The fix is an agentic context layer, but who has one?
An enterprise AI agent answers with total confidence, but the number is wrong. Nobody catches it until someone traces it back to a stale metric definition or a document the retrieval system never pulled. The model did not fail. The context it was given did. In the past six months, 57% of enterprises traced a […]
This One Honda Is Selling Better Than All Mazdas Combined
Matt Cardy/Getty Images Since it burst onto the U.S. automotive scene in the 70s, Mazda has cemented its position as a respected player in the country. For over five decades, Mazda differentiated itself from the other Japanese “Big Three”: Toyota, Honda, and Nissan by focusing on low-volume, […]