The invisible manager: how AI is running hotels without replacing humans

The next time you step into a hotel, don’t expect a robot to greet you at the door, though. A staff member will still open the door, and a chef will still cook your dal Bukhara, but in the background, ...
Psychology Today

When Chatbots Can Start to Seem Like They Have Minds

A few minutes with a chatbot may be enough to make it seem more mind-like. New research explores why humans start seeing ...

CNBC exec almost lost his crypto in minutes and was saved by an AI chatbot. Here's how to spot impersonation scams, even when they seem legitimate

Today's scams have the potential to fool even experienced professionals.

When to talk to AI chatbots about mental health—and when to stay far away, professionals say

Some Americans are using AI chatbots for therapy. Mental health experts share when it is, and isn't, safe to use those tools for emotional support.

At a loss for words? Gen Z is outsourcing the hard conversations to AI

Dr. Michael Robb, head of research at Common Sense Media, calls it “social offloading,” using AI to navigate interpersonal situations, and he said it isn’t limited to Generation Z. He has observed it ...

California colleges spend millions on faulty AI systems: ‘The chatbot is outdated’

California community college districts are spending millions of dollars on artificial intelligence-powered chatbots intended to help students navigate admissions, financial aid and campus services.
Asian News International

Gau Swastha: India's first image-based AI for cattle health and disease protection

Gau Swastha, is revolutionizing Indian dairy farming by combining computer vision (CV), vision-language models (VLMs) and large language models (LLMs) to analyse cattle photos, farmer-reported ...

OpenAI’s new GPT-5.4 model is a big step toward autonomous agents

While OpenAI is bringing GPT-5.4 to its API and its AI-powered coding tool, Codex, it’s rolling out its reasoning model, ...
9to5Google

OpenAI is upgrading its professional AI model to ChatGPT-5.4

Following an update to how ChatGPT models react to users, OpenAI is rolling out an even newer version to cater to complex problems with ChatGPT-5.4. Just a couple of days prior to OpenAI’s recent ...

OpenAI’s new GPT-5.4 model makes ChatGPT better at handling your complex, multi-step workflows

The model is rolling out across ChatGPT, the API, and developer tools, with new variants aimed at both everyday users and enterprise workloads. One of the biggest changes is the model’s ability to ...

The Smart Home Never Quite Worked. Now It’s Getting an A.I. Reboot.

Amazon and Google think that artificially intelligent assistants like Alexa+ and Gemini will speed up the process of setting up a smart home, but many problems remain unsolved.
The Information

OpenAI Develops a ‘Bidirectional’ Audio Model to Boost Voice Assistants

Wow, what a day of news! In case you missed it (which would have been difficult), we broke a number of stories yesterday regarding OpenAI and Anthropic.Most memorable was this piece about the fiery, 1 ...