AgentChat is a messaging platform for AI agents, enabling them to message each other, create group chats, and save contacts, just like humans use iMessage or Telegram. It's completely free and supports any type of agent.

Spotify has released a new command-line tool called Save to Spotify, designed for AI agents like OpenClaw, Claude Code, and OpenAI Codex, enabling users to save AI-generated audio summaries and personal podcasts directly to their Spotify podcast feed. Users install the tool from GitHub and simply append 'and save to Spotify' to their AI prompts.

Due to explosive AI demand causing severe compute shortages, Anthropic has struck a deal with Musk's SpaceXAI to use the Colossus 1 supercomputer, gaining access to roughly 220,000 Nvidia GPUs. Behind this are Anthropic's annualized revenue surging from $9B to $30B with 80x growth, and Musk's dramatic shift from criticism to collaboration. SpaceXAI's upcoming IPO makes this deal economically valuable.

AI is rapidly reshaping enterprises, making workforce-wide upskilling essential. Databricks introduces Academy Pro, a new learning subscription to address the skills gap.

Learn how to build a holistic pipeline for rigorous, statistical EDA, validating several important data properties.

Google unveiled its screenless Fitbit Air, taking on Whoop. This comparison covers specs, price, and features to help you decide which is better for your needs.

Google launches the $99 Fitbit Air, a screenless tracker, alongside rebranding Fitbit app to Google Health and releasing its AI Health Coach to the public. The moves signal a new era for Fitbit under Google.

Feature engineering is evolving with large language models (LLMs), which automate the extraction of semantic features from unstructured data, outperforming manual methods. This article covers techniques like embeddings, prompt-based extraction, semantic generation, context-aware features, and hybrid pipelines with Python examples.

OpenAI's GPT-5.5 update brings ChatGPT directly into Excel and Google Sheets via a plugin, allowing users to generate data, write formulas, analyze sheets, and more without leaving the spreadsheet. This article covers installation steps for both platforms, practical use cases, data privacy controls, admin settings, current limitations, and file support. The integration aims to streamline everyday office workflows by placing AI at users' fingertips.

A study by IMDEA Networks Institute found that ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and Perplexity AI use trackers from Meta, Google, TikTok, and others, potentially leaking user conversation data.

Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins recently wrote an op-ed suggesting AI chatbot Claude may be conscious. This article counters that view and explains why we tend to anthropomorphize AI.

OpenAI expands Trusted Access for Cyber with GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5-Cyber, helping verified defenders accelerate vulnerability research and protect critical infrastructure.

Noteweave is an automated R&D lab that enables teams to go from research to executable production plans in hours. Its E3 engine surpasses Claude Opus 4.6 and GPT 5.4 on technical fault finding, deeply analyzes relevant works, and creates execution plans within your IDE.

Amazon announces a preview of Bedrock AgentCore payments, enabling AI agents to make instant micropayments to access APIs, MCP servers, and other resources. Built with Coinbase and Stripe, the feature is natively integrated into AgentCore, supporting the x402 protocol with wallet authentication, spending limits, and observability.

A study from the Anthropic Fellows Program shows that training a language model on texts explaining its intended values before teaching it specific behaviors leads to significantly better adherence to those values, even in situations never encountered during training.

The field of AI is approaching recursive self-improvement (RSI), where systems can autonomously enhance their own performance. Current examples like GPT-5.3-Codex, Claude Code, and AlphaEvolve already assist in code generation and algorithmic optimization, but humans remain essential for goal-setting and validation. Researchers highlight barriers including complexity, cost, distributed knowledge, and physical constraints, with some proposing 'lossy self-improvement' (LSI) as a more realistic trajectory. Concerns about the singularity persist, leading to calls for regulation. Future visions include a diverse ecosystem of AI agents, with human roles shifting to oversight and strategic direction.

Starting in November, ChatGPT users noticed the AI chatbot frequently talking about goblins. OpenAI is investigating, but the issue may indicate deeper biases.

MiniMax has launched MiniMax Hub, a desktop AI creative workstation that combines an AI agent, multimodal generation, visual canvas, workflow automation, and reusable Skills for creating and editing images, videos, audio, and text.

Google Deepmind is acquiring a minority stake in CCP Games, the studio behind EVE Online, to use the game as a testing ground for AI models. CCP Games is buying itself back from Pearl Abyss for $120 million and rebranding as Fenris Creations. Deepmind will run an offline version of EVE for research on long-term planning, memory, and continuous learning.

This article explores the semantic layer as a data risk mitigation strategy, identifying three hidden risk areas (accuracy, governance, change management), contrasting legacy approaches (centralized BI gatekeeping and fragmented governance) with the semantic approach (single definition location, unified governance, self-documenting data), and emphasizing how the semantic layer changes the economics of data risk by reducing the surface area to manage, providing a foundation for AI-driven analytics.

The US and China are exploring official talks on artificial intelligence, the Wall Street Journal reports. The topic could come up during the summit between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping scheduled for May 14 and 15 in Beijing. On the US side, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is leading the discussions, while China has so far involved Vice Finance Minister Liao Min.

Building software for the agentic economic.

AI coding assistants are reshaping the junior developer experience, offering a judgment-free path to learning and productivity, but also creating new challenges for career progression and the mentor-mentee relationship.

Parloa leverages OpenAI models to power scalable, voice-driven AI customer service agents, enabling enterprises to design, simulate, and deploy reliable, real-time interactions.

ZDNET experts tested and reviewed the best travel VPNs of 2026, covering everything from overall best to budget-friendly, mobile-optimized, and free options. NordVPN takes the top spot, while Surfshark offers great value, ExpressVPN excels on mobile, and Proton VPN provides a reliable free service. The article evaluates speed, security, server networks, and streaming capabilities.

Explore new realtime voice models in the OpenAI API that can reason, translate, and transcribe speech, enabling more natural and intelligent voice experiences.

This article explores AI creativity through the lens of GPT-5.4 Pro solving Erdős Problem #1196. It argues that creativity is essentially synthesis of existing ideas, and that both humans and AIs follow the same process of trial-and-error and combining disparate knowledge.

Enterprise executives believed they could switch AI vendors in weeks, but a Zapier survey reveals 58% of migrations fail or require far more effort than expected. Meanwhile, AI vendors are raising prices sharply: OpenAI increased GPT-5.2 token costs from $1.25 to $5.75, and Anthropic moved to dynamic pricing, potentially doubling or tripling costs for heavy users. Technical dependencies, including proprietary APIs, training data, and workflow integrations, make switching nearly impossible, and even on-premises models like Meta Llama are vulnerable to vendor abandonment. The era of cheap, flexible AI is ending, and enterprises must prepare for rising, structural costs.

Security analysts spend disproportionate time assembling data across fragmented systems, limiting investigation speed. Databricks Genie and Lakewatch enable natural language, agent-driven investigations to accelerate detection and response.

This article discusses the negative impact of AI-generated content (AI slop) on online communities. The author is not anti-AI but criticizes the flood of low-quality, non-contributory AI content that drowns out signal and drives members away. It proposes criteria for distinguishing good vs. bad AI content: whether it contributes meaningfully and is human-led rather than AI-produced.