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Apple announced plans to support Switch Control for Brain-Computer Interfaces The tool would make devices like iPhones and Vision Pro headsets accessible for people with conditions like ALS Combined with Apple’s AI-powered Personal Voice feature, brain-computer interfaces could allow people to think words and hear them spoken in a synthetic version of their voice Our […]

ChatGPT’s Deep Research feature can now export reports as PDFs The PDFs come complete with tables, images, and citations This update makes it easier to archive, share, and even reuse ChatGPT’s research in other tools I’ve spent a lot of time experimenting with ChatGPT’s Deep Research feature, and I’ve produced all kinds of strange (though […]

OpenAI’s latest AI models, GPT o3 and o4-mini, hallucinate significantly more often than their predecessors The increased complexity of the models may be leading to more confident inaccuracies The high error rates raise concerns about AI reliability in real-world applications Brilliant but untrustworthy people are a staple of fiction (and history). The same correlation may […]

Perplexity has added AI image generation to its platform The images are produced using the OpenAI model, which was recently released for ChatGPT Perplexity also made OpenAI’s o3-mini and xAI’s Grok-3 models available AI conversational search engine Perplexity can now add some AI visuals to your answer. And if those images look a lot like […]

Character.AI’s new AvatarFX tool can turn a single photo into a realistic video The video shows a still image speaking with synced lip movements, gestures, and longform performances The tool supports everything from human portraits to mythical creatures and talking inanimate objects Images may be worth a thousand words, but Character.AI doesn’t see any reason […]

Cluely, an AI app that promises to help you “cheat at everything,” perhaps deserves some credit for honesty. If you believe that artificial intelligence is a platform that, in some ways, can help you game the system by delivering melifilous prose written by a large language model (LLM), stunning art generated by ChatGPT, or convincing […]

IPVanish’s malware and tracker blocking technology has been confirmed as one of the best on the market VIPRE Advanced Security received the highest rating in the latest AV-Comparatives’ Malware Protection Test This achievement follows a successful independent audit confirming that IPVanish’s no-log policy Independent auditors have just confirmed that the technology behind IPVanish’s malware and […]

Google has made Gemini Live’s screen and camera sharing features free for all Android users. The release reverses the previous subscriber-only option. The feature lets Gemini respond to real-time visual input from your screen or camera. In a surprise twist and a reversal of its earlier paywalled plans, Google has announced that Gemini Live’s screen […]