Meet the Anthropic Engineer Keeping Its AI Agent Trustworthy
Meet the Anthropic Engineer Keeping Its AI Agent Trustworthy

If you’ve ever wondered how Claude and similar AI agents can answer complex questions in seconds and where they get the information, you’re not alone.Gurmeet Saran works to find that answer every day as an engineer at Anthropic in San Francisco, the A…

The ugly economics of consumer AI

There’s a reason frontier labs have gotten gunshy about consumer AI — and it’s not because the tech isn’t good enough.

The First Chatbot’s Multiple Personalities
The First Chatbot’s Multiple Personalities

ELIZA is remembered as the world’s first AI star, a kindly therapist in chatbot form that gently probed users’ worries. Even its creator, Joseph Weizenbaum, was surprised by the warm reception given to his experiment in human-machine interaction. For …

The hidden labor of modern tech support is turning us all into unpaid employees

Modern tech support keeps selling self-service as convenience, but every chatbot loop and repeated explanation adds up to unpaid labor.

It’s not just you. Research says people don’t like overtly friendly AI chatbots

New research suggests users prefer AI chatbots that match their personality instead of assistants that sound excessively cheerful or emotionally exaggerated.

AI is turning its attention to historical secrets and already decoding centuries-old papers

Researchers are using AI to decode ancient manuscripts, damaged letters, and historical archives that humans have struggled to interpret for centuries.

AI can pass the Turing Test in live chats and appear more human than us. I am spooked now

A UC San Diego study found GPT-4.5 was judged human more often than real people in live chats, raising sharper questions about AI disclosure, trust, and online identity.

Experts are worried that smarter AI gets, the dumber we might become

As AI turns intelligence into an on-demand service, experts warn that instant answers could weaken the curiosity, scrutiny, and source-checking habits that make human thinking valuable.

Tarot card readers are using ChatGPT for divinations, I am utterly surprised at this AI pivot

Tarot card readers are using ChatGPT to interpret spreads, showing how AI is moving from productivity into grief, faith, and meaning-making, where confident answers can flatten human uncertainty.

Your chatbot may have emotions, and it changes how it behaves

Your chatbot may not feel anything, but new research shows emotion-like signals inside AI can shape responses, steer decisions, and even push systems toward risky behavior under pressure.