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Meta rolls out consumer subscription plans for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp globally, with prices from $2.99 to $3.99 per month, offering extra features. The company also begins testing new subscriptions for businesses, creators, and Meta AI users.

Apple's long-awaited Siri overhaul, expected to arrive in iOS 27, might look a lot like ChatGPT with a splash of Liquid Glass, according to Bloomberg renders. The images show a pill-shaped chat bubble from the Dynamic Island, a standalone Siri app, and updates to Camera and Photos apps with AI features. Apple will reveal the final design at WWDC in June.

As an iPhone owner, I primarily use Siri through CarPlay when I'm driving. Apple's voice assistant can handle basic tasks, but since my Toyota Camry supports Android Auto, I wanted to see how Google Gemini would fare. With Gemini, you can send emails, get restaurant info, play games, and more. Here's how to set it up and my experience.

Meta is rolling out paid add-ons for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp worldwide while building a separate paid AI offering. This marks the first time Meta has clearly monetized its AI investments.

A subscriber-only article on LWN.net by Joe Brockmeier, covering a discussion between Dirk and Linus on AI and kernel development. The full content is behind a paywall.

Amazon MGM Studios and AWS are launching a "GenAI Creators' Fund" that gives filmmakers money and access to the in-house AI platform "Project Nara." Three animated series are already in production - the teams had five weeks for their pilots. Amazon says it now has the "only end-to-end AI content ecosystem in the industry."

YouTube launches an AI feature that generates personalized video feeds from user prompts, available to US users on mobile and desktop with English support.

ElevenLabs has released Music v2, an upgraded AI music generation model that can shift between genres like opera, heavy metal, and rap within a single song. A new inpainting feature allows users to regenerate specific sections without affecting the rest.

The article warns developers that while AI can accelerate coding, over-reliance on AI may deprive them of the joy of building, such as finding elegant solutions, designing clean architectures, and receiving user feedback.

TopRec is an AI-powered platform that helps recruiters rank candidates and build a self-maintaining CRM. It deliberately avoids being promoted as a PWA to prevent caching issues; use it as a website.

A PDF report on AI cheating, but the content cannot be directly parsed.

Tired of AI results in your search? This article explains how to add a custom search engine to exclude AI results, with step-by-step instructions for Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and other browsers.

YouTube is tightening its AI labeling rules. Labels for photorealistic or heavily AI-altered content will now show up in more visible spots, below the player for long videos and as an overlay on Shorts. Starting May 2026, an automatic detection system will flag AI-generated content even if creators don't disclose it. Recommendations and monetization won't be affected.

One API to publish across every social platform.

The Aura Smart Bird Feeder offers a wider view, longer battery life, and larger capacity compared to the popular Birdbuddy Pro, but falls short in image quality and AI accuracy. The author compares both devices, concluding that the Aura suits users who want maximum activity capture, while Birdbuddy delivers a more polished viewing experience.

Tony Blair's essay correctly identifies Britain's long-term structural issues, but his proposed solutions—over-reliance on AI and an outdated worldview—are misguided and won't fix the country's problems.

YouTube is moving AI disclosures to more visible locations on videos and Shorts, and will automatically identify and label AI-generated content.

Cisco and OpenAI are redefining enterprise engineering with Codex, helping Cisco scale AI-native development, accelerate AI Defense work, and automate defect remediation.

Kim is an AI-powered intelligence layer for Apple Health, helping users understand and improve their health data.

OpenAI has hired a top PR executive with 13 years of marketing experience at Salesforce.

A solo developer created Snipforge, an all-in-one AI video editing suite with 28 tools, including transcription, smart clips, background removal, and more. Priced from free to $15/month for teams.

An East Bay mother was scammed after fraudsters used AI to clone her daughter's voice, claiming the daughter had been kidnapped by a Mexican drug cartel. This incident is part of a growing trend of AI-enabled scams.

Ahead of global elections, we’re helping people access information, supporting cyber defenders, and increasing AI transparency.

Shortly after OpenAI disproved Erdős' unit-distance conjecture, Anthropic shows Claude Mythos can solve the problem too - 'over the weekend.' Engineer Sholto Douglas says Mythos cracked the 1946 conjecture with a 'cute, simple proof,' a sign of 'serious overhang' in AI-driven math discoveries.

A look at the alarming trend of Suno AI users exclusively listening to their own AI-generated music, and the possible reasons behind it. The author found that many users boast about abandoning Spotify, but none were willing to explain why they prefer AI slop over real music. Theories include narcissism or laziness, with the author leaning towards laziness.

The content creators behind channels like Chloe VS History are using AI tools to ‘bring history to life in a really visceral way’.

Blockchain ecosystems are losing developers across the board while AI projects dominate GitHub growth. Weekly crypto commits dropped from about 850,000 to 210,000 since early 2025, and active developers declined 56% to around 4,600.

ContextVault is a browser extension that captures AI conversations in real-time across major LLM platforms like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, storing them locally in IndexedDB. It allows one-click export as Markdown or ZIP, ensuring your data never leaves your device. Free, open source, no accounts or backend required.

Pope Leo calls for 'disarming' artificial intelligence and apologizes for the church's delay in condemning slavery, warning of ethical constraints as AI permeates work and war.

Google's upcoming Android Auto update introduces a redesigned interface with Material 3 Expressive, custom widgets, immersive navigation, and deeper Gemini integration. The author's demo left him impressed and anticipating the update later this year.

OpenAI partners with two major Brazilian media groups to bring trusted journalism to ChatGPT, with a focus on attribution and transparency.

An article covering a live tracker that monitors major AI-related errors in journalism, highlighting the need for accountability and human oversight.

marpy.io is a browser-based IDE and AI coding assistant built exclusively for the Python stack (Flask, FastAPI, Django). It enables developers to go from idea to deployed app without wrestling with infrastructure, glue code, or half-baked JS-focused tools. Features include Python-native autocomplete, refactors, and AI-generated modules that understand real-world backends.

Yann LeCun says current AI systems aren't genuinely intelligent. Demis Hassabis thinks humanity is already "standing in the foothills of the singularity." And Gemini co-lead Oriol Vinyals splits the difference: today's models would've looked like AGI seven years ago, but they still can't learn from experience or produce real breakthroughs.

The author reflects on learning to code the hard way in the mid-2000s without AI, arguing that the difficulty of thinking is essential to humanity. She warns against allowing big tech to privatize intelligence and letting our intellectual faculties wither in service of inane bots.

At Cannes, director Darren Aronofsky spoke in favor of AI at an 'AI for Talent' summit, while Guillermo del Toro has said he would 'rather die' than use it. AI has become one of the most divisive fault lines in the film industry.

AI-fix is a terminal tool that automatically analyzes and fixes failed commands. It captures the error, sends it to Claude or GPT-4o-mini, and executes the suggested fix. Each fix costs less than $0.0003, supports zsh, bash, and fish history, and prioritizes privacy by only sending error output and system context.

Growing numbers of people are seeking improbable cosmetic surgery based on chatbots’ recommendations, leading to concerns among plastic surgeons about the rise of 'AI face'.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai now calls links and sources a "part" of search, when in reality, they're its foundation. The wording is deliberate: new features keep users inside the Google ecosystem, and the company is shifting from traffic distributor to AI publisher whose source selection is becoming a question of editorial power.

AI-powered lead outreach tool for field service contractors, automating and optimizing customer acquisition.

A simple tool that lets you ask a question, get a shareable link, and the AI generates an answer with a typing animation.

Tell Scribe what to say. It writes the rest. An AI writing tool that completes your thoughts.

OpenAI brings ChatGPT directly into PowerPoint. A new beta plugin creates presentations from notes, documents, or images and edits existing slides. The add-in is available worldwide across all tiers. OpenAI recommends saving important decks before using it.

OpenAI's new Appshots feature lets Mac users send the contents of any app window to Codex with a double Command key press, including text outside the visible area. It requires macOS permissions and works across all plans, complementing Computer Use without regional restrictions.

An AI music engine that gives you granular control over individual stems (instruments) in generated music.

A cartoon by Fiona Katauskas questions whether public sentiment is turning against AI.

Spotify and Universal Music Group have signed a licensing deal to allow users to generate remixes and covers using generative AI, positioned as a premium add-on for superfans. However, the author argues that such tools lack genuine artistic engagement and may encourage narcissism and superficial creation, ultimately disrespecting human creativity. The article draws on examples from existing AI music tools like Suno to highlight the lifeless output and contrasts it with human-made covers and remixes that demonstrate deep understanding of source material.

OpenAI pulled in about $5.7 billion in Q1 2026 revenue but still lost $1.22 for every dollar earned, putting its adjusted operating margin at minus 122 percent.

California's governor just signed the first executive order by a US governor aimed at protecting workers from AI-driven job loss.

Standard Chartered CEO Bill Winters apologized for referring to nearly 8,000 staff slated to lose their jobs to AI as 'lower-value human capital'. The bank plans to cut about 7,800 back-office roles, among the first major global banks to do so due to AI.