Forget SEO. Welcome to the World of Generative Engine Optimization
This holiday season, rather than searching on Google, more Americans will likely be turning to large language models to find...
The FTC Is Disappearing Blog Posts About AI Published During Lina Khan’s Tenure
In late July 2024, Lina Khan, then the chair of the US Federal Trade Commission, gave a speech at an...
AI Is Changing What High School STEM Students Study
In the early 2010s, nearly every STEM-savvy college-bound kid heard the same advice: Learn to code. Python was the new...
Anthropic Has a Plan to Keep Its AI From Building a Nuclear Weapon. Will It Work?
At the end of August, the AI company Anthropic announced that its chatbot Claude wouldn’t help anyone build a nuclear...
Gemini in Google Home Keeps Mistaking My Dog for a Cat
A cat jumped up on my couch. Wait a minute. I don't have a cat.The alert about the leaping feline...
Can AI Avoid the Enshittification Trap?
I recently vacationed in Italy. As one does these days, I ran my itinerary past GPT-5 for sightseeing suggestions and...
The Blurred Truths of Sora
As a purely creative instrument, Sora, the new AI video app from OpenAI, is a game changer. Dream up any...
ByteDance’s Other AI Chatbot Is Quietly Gaining Traction Around the World
ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, has built what is currently the most popular AI chatbot in China: Doubao. Launched...
Niantic’s Peridot, the Augmented Reality Alien Dog, Is Now a Talking Tour Guide
Imagine you’re walking your dog. It interacts with the world around you—sniffing some things, relieving itself on others. You walk...
How ByteDance Made China’s Most Popular AI Chatbot
When Chinese AI startup DeepSeek became a global sensation in January, it not only shocked Silicon Valley but also startled...
