Megan Morrone
AI agents are here for real this time
AI is moving from chat and web search to delegated work.
AI's brain is getting bloated with AI content
AI is consuming more and more AI-written content to formulate its answers—a feedback loop that could make its answers narrower, blander, and easier to manipulate. I
Data centers become the face of AI backlash
Only a small fraction of data center opponents actually live near one, according to new polling by a consulting firm that counsels leading AI labs and tech startups.
OpenAI makes default ChatGPT more personal
OpenAI is making the default ChatGPT more accurate and more personal—changes that could increase people's reliance on it, while also increasing its access to their lives.
OpenAI lobbies for expanded AI role in life sciences
Advances in AI's ability to take on novel scientific work are helping researchers move faster, connect siloed knowledge, and design trea
AI optimism collides with public fear
Silicon Valley confidence and Washington anxiety clashed at Axios' AI+DC Summit. The AI industry says
Anthropic, Google and Microsoft fight to win teachers
The next major artificial intelligence (AI) battleground is the classroom, as Google, Microsoft and Anthropic race to make their tools the chatbots of choice for teachers and students. After early resistance, the floodgates are opening. When students began using ChatGPT for homework in late 2022, chatbots were widely seen as cheating tools to be banned or blocked.
OpenAI faces its toughest challenger yet
The world's most popular chatbot, ChatGPT, faces new threats from its biggest competitor: Google's Gemini.
AI love, actually
From making up to breaking up, there's probably a robot involved. Tinder is testing a new AI-powered feature called Chemistry that uses "deep learning" to analyze a user's photos in their camera roll, i
The risks of giving ChatGPT more personality
The latest AI models powering ChatGPT just learned to be friendlier, improving the experience for people who use chatbots responsibly.