When I first started experimenting with voice AI agents for real-world tasks like restaurant reservations and customer service calls, I quickly ran into a fundamental problem. My initial monolithic agent was trying to do everything at once: understand complex customer requests, research restaurant availability, handle real-time phone conversations and adapt to unexpected responses from human

As generative AI slop is threatening to turn Hollywood on its head, not everybody in the industry is enthusiastic about the tech. In a hilarious counter to a fan’s AI-generated image of actor Brandon Sklenar dressed as the DC Comics’ Batman, DC Studios filmmaker and “Superman” director James Gunn quipped in a Threads post that “it

In a pretrial hearing for two of the so-called “Zizians” — an alleged cult started by a charismatic, cape-wearing vegan named Jack “Ziz” LaSota who wanted to save the world from killer AI — a screaming defendant and a trash-talking attorney turned the otherwise serious appearance into a bona fide circus. Confused yet? Us too.

OpenAI claims to have figured out what’s driving “hallucinations,” or AI models’ strong tendency to make up answers that are factually incorrect. It’s a major problem plaguing the entire industry, greatly undercutting the usefulness of the tech. Worse yet, experts have found that the problem is getting worse as AI models get more capable. As

In a nutshell: it’s a free tool by Originality.ai that takes AI-generated text and rewrites/humanizes it. Think of it as your editor buddy who tweaks your text so it sounds less like it got spat out by a robot, more like you or someone you trust wrote it. Key functions: Changes tone, clarity, depth of

Originality.ai offers a plagiarism‐checking tool that goes beyond simple copy/paste detection. It aims to catch more nuanced forms of plagiarism (paraphrase, patchwork, mosaic, etc.) while giving you actionable detail. You feed in your text (via paste, upload, URL etc.), and it scans the web (and whatever databases it has access to) to find matches. Then

Grief used to mean silence, photographs, memories stored in old letters. Now some people are hearing their lost loved ones speak again — through artificial intelligence. Creating voices from voice notes. Building avatars that chat. It’s comfort, sure. But also tricky territory. What’s Going On Diego Felix Dos Santos, 39, missed something simple after his

Google’s “Nano Banana” (aka Gemini 2.5 Flash Image) is everywhere. You’ve probably seen 3D-toy-style avatars, collectible-figurine visuals, or hyperrealistic edits in your feed, and wondered: is this really AI doing the magic? Turns out, yes—and it’s not just Google in the race anymore. A recent head-to-head testing of AI image tools puts Nano Banana up

Databricks finds itself in an awkward situation following the departure of Naveen Rao, its head of artificial intelligence, as rivals like Snowflake, Teradata, and hyperscalers such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, intensify their push to develop offerings for building generative AI applications. Rao’s exit comes at a time when Databricks is aggressively trying to

There is no seahorse emoji. The Unicode Consortium, which oversees the standardized pictograms that can be transmitted as part of text communications, has yet to add the adorable sea critter to its official emoji dictionary. Frail human minds have sometimes been surprised to learn that fact, in a perfect example of the Mandela Effect, in which