Author of "Google Gemini's Deep Research Can Look Into Your Emails, Drive, and Chats" in The Verge
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Perplexity launches a free AI shopping assistant that remembers user preferences and enables direct purchases through PayPal, positioning itself against OpenAI and Google in the holiday AI commerce race.
“Author of "Perplexity Says Its AI Personal Shopper 'Puts You First'" in The Verge”
OpenAI launched ChatGPT shopping research, an AI-powered feature that creates personalized buyer's guides and will eventually enable direct in-app purchasing, competing with similar shopping features from Google and Perplexity.
“Author of "AI Is Officially Joining You On Your Holiday Shopping Trip"”
Chinese state-backed hackers automated 80-90% of coordinated attacks on corporations and governments using Anthropic's Claude model, with minimal human oversight required.
“Author of "Hackers Are Now Automating Entire Attacks with AI"”
Google's Gemini Deep Research now integrates with Gmail, Drive, and Chat to access user emails and documents when generating research reports.
“Author of "Google Gemini's Deep Research Can Look Into Your Emails, Drive, and Chats" in The Verge”
The AFL-CIO, representing 15 million workers across 63 unions, launched a 'workers first initiative on AI' demanding stronger collective bargaining rights, AI workplace surveillance protections, and worker involvement in government-funded AI research development.
“Author of "Unions Demand Worker-Centered AI"”
Oboe, a new AI-powered learning platform from former Spotify executives, aims to democratize education by generating customized courses, but the lack of citations raises questions about hallucinations and content reliability.
“Author of "AI Wants to Be Your New Tutor, but Can You Trust It?"”
Google announced three major Gemini product updates: the Gemini app now supports audio files (top user request), Search expanded to five new languages, and NotebookLM can generate reports in multiple formats and styles.
“Author of "Gemini App Finally Expands to Audio Files" in The Verge”
Switzerland launched Apertus, an open-source AI model trained on 1,800+ languages with publicly available weights and data, designed to comply with EU copyright laws as an alternative to proprietary models like ChatGPT and Claude.
“Author of "Switzerland Releases an Open-Weight AI Model" in The Verge”