Agents, assemble!  AI-powered coding agents are now real and usable. Indeed, coding agents are all around us, touching on every aspect of the software development life cycle, and recently InfoWorld outlined 12 of the best.   This raised in the minds of our readers the bigger question, which they rushed to ask Smart Answers: how

Elon Musk’s company xAI lost out on a massive government contract after its Grok chatbot went full Nazi last month and started calling itself “MechaHitler” while spewing racist rants, Wired reports. It’s a striking revelation, if confirmed. The Trump administration has shown little restraint in its whirlwind push to stuff AI into federal agencies. It’s even

In the wake of OpenAI’s long-awaited release of GPT-5, it appears that the company has learned one big lesson: the realization that it’s wildly out of touch with its customers. One of the biggest revelations in the wake of the launch was the extreme degree to which users became attached to the preceding GPT-4o AI

There was a time when catching grammar mistakes meant flipping through a dog-eared grammar handbook or begging a friend to proofread at the last minute. Now? Students have a digital writing coach that never sleeps, doesn’t get tired of reading the same paragraph 12 times, and—if used well—can make your writing shine without killing your

DeepMode allows you to upload a handful of photos (5–30) and transform them into a fully customizable AI clone—or personal avatar—that retains your facial identity through various generated images. This clone can be used to generate lifelike visuals in realistic, digital art, or anime styles, with options to tweak outfits, expressions, hair, and more. Once

The first time I ran one of my blog posts through GPTZero, I had that same uneasy feeling I get when airport security pulls me aside for a “random” check. You know you haven’t done anything wrong, but you also suddenly forget what shoes are. GPTZero is one of the big names in the AI

YouTube is nothing without its advertisers. The beating heart of the video platform, big box companies have been locked in a historic game of Whac-a-Mole against low-quality YouTube content, which they say leads to a lowered perception of brands when paired with their ads. In the past, these high-risk videos took the form of right-wing

Do you like AI models? Well, chances are, they sure don’t like you back. New research suggests that the industry’s leading large language models, including those that power ChatGPT, display an alarming bias towards other AIs when they’re asked to choose between human and machine-generated content. The authors of the study, which was published in

Content warning: this story includes discussion of self-harm and suicide. If you are in crisis, please call, text or chat with the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988, or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741741. It’s the dawn of a new era for the internet in 2025. Thanks to the incredible

Were you to glance at the trajectory of top AI stocks — OpenAI, Microsoft, Nvidia, and the like — you’d be convinced the industry is making money hand over fist. Look a bit deeper, however, and cracks start to show in that facade, betraying one massively inconvenient truth: that the AI industry has not yet