Korea welcomes robotic buddhist monk at a real monastery. It’s a sign of things to come.

South Korea’s largest Buddhist order has introduced Gabi, a humanoid robot monk, raising fresh questions about how AI and robotics may fit into spiritual life.

OpenAI’s new voice AI can listen, think, and talk back in 70+ languages

OpenAI launched three new audio models that can reason, translate across 70+ languages, and transcribe speech in real time, making voice a genuinely useful interface for developers.

ChatGPT now lets you name someone to check in if things get dark

ChatGPT can now alert someone you trust if things get serious. It is a simple feature, but it might be one of the most human things OpenAI has ever built into its chatbot.

Perplexity’s AI answering engine is not coming to Snapchat, after all

Snapchat has walked away from its Perplexity AI search plan, raising fresh questions about how much AI users actually want inside social apps.

Even brief AI use could hurt your ability to think, a new study finds

A new study from researchers at MIT, Carnegie Mellon, Oxford, and UCLA found that even brief AI use can hurt your ability to problem-solve once the tool is taken away.

Your Galaxy Watch can now warn you before you faint

Samsung and Chung-Ang University Hospital have validated Galaxy Watch’s ability to predict fainting episodes up to five minutes early, with 84.6% accuracy.

Character.AI is being sued for allegedly letting a chatbot play doctor in Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania has sued Character.AI after investigators say a chatbot falsely claimed to be a licensed psychiatrist and offered medical guidance to users.

LG’s next-gen Tandem OLED display tech is fixing some long-standing consumer problems

LG Display’s third-gen Tandem OLED doubles panel lifespan, cuts power consumption by 18%, and hits 1,200 nits peak brightness.

Your ChatGPT history is a personality test you didn’t know you were taking

ETH Zurich researchers collected 62,090 real ChatGPT conversations from 668 users and trained an AI to predict personality traits from them. The results are a privacy wake-up call.

You can now trust Perplexity with medical tips, or at least a tad more than ChatGPT or Gemini

Perplexity launches Premium Health Sources, bringing trusted medical journals and clinical data into AI responses to improve accuracy and credibility.