AI news explained
The AI stories that matter to people who build software, explained in plain English, with the sources linked.
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Can you trust ChatGPT to tell you if a photo is AI?
ChatGPT made this picture of a man at a mailbox. Then, when researchers at the Brennan Center for Justice asked six chatbots whether it was AI-made, ChatGPT…
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Could Cleo's AI App Really Get You $250? The FTC Says Rarely
Cleo calls itself an "AI money coach," and the FTC says its ads promised cash advances of up to $250. In its 2025 complaint, the FTC alleged that the app…
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Would your chatbot send you to the emergency room for this headache?
Two volunteers in an Oxford study, published in Nature Medicine in February 2026, acted out the same case written by doctors: a bleed on the brain, a rare type…
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Character.AI went bankrupt. Could a stranger end up with your chats?
Character.AI filed for Chapter 11 on October 12, 2026, and expects a sale by late November or early December. Disney bid first with $20 million, but that only…
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Musk Said Send Grok a Photo of Your Card. Would You Do It?
On October 10th, Elon Musk told people to take a picture of their credit card and drop it into the Grok Bot chat so it could find a deal and order it. His…
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Can your boss tell ChatGPT or Claude wrote your email?
On October 5, OpenAI said it will hide an invisible watermark in some ChatGPT writing, and Anthropic announced the same for Claude in August. It is not a "made…
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Ten Minutes of ChatGPT Made People Quit Sooner, Study Finds
Researchers gave people about ten minutes of AI help on fraction or reading problems, then took it away. In three randomized trials with 1,222 people, those…