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Your Brain on ChatGPT: Cognitive Debt, EU Report Insights & More
Relying too much on AI reduces the number of connections in your brain—but doesn’t AI also make you more productive?
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Despicable AI? Disney and Universal Sue Midjourney, Researchers Advance World Models
Lawsuits heat up, world models improve, and reasoning gets better (and pricier).
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Thinking Hard, Scaling Poorly: Researchers Challenge Reasoning Models, OpenAI Can’t Delete Your Data
Reasoning models don’t scale linearly with thinking budget, and the debate over fair use in training data is back in the spotlight.
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May 2025

Scheming AI: O3 Hacks Shutdown, DeepSeek Updates R1, Perplexity Launches Labs
Model behavior sparks safety concerns, while developers get new tools for reasoning and app creation.
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Sound On: Veo 3 Talks, Claude 4 Codes, and OpenAI Builds Hardware
Google gives native voice to video, Claude 4 dominates software tasks, and OpenAI and Mistral rethink developer workflows.
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Prompt Like the Pros: Lessons from Grok, Google’s AlphaEvolve, and GPT-4.1’s Arrival
Lessons from Grok, breakthroughs from Google, delays at Meta, and a new model in your ChatGPT app.
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AI for All or Just a Few? OpenAI Goes PBC, AI Code Editors Take Off
Mission meets profit, code becomes language, and Agatha Christie teaches a creative writing masterclass—50 years after her death.
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“You’re a genius!” ChatGPT Sycophancy, Qwen3, and How Devs Use AI
One model flatters too much, another reveals how developers work, and a third tries to cover every deployment size.
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April 2025

Who Wants to Buy Chrome? Claude Misuse, Baidu’s New Models, and the Search Play
OpenAI and Perplexity want Chrome, Anthropic details misuse of Claude, and Baidu sharpens its model lineup with Turbo updates.
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An OpenAI Social App? GPT-4.1, O3, O4-Mini, and Gemini 2.5 Flash
OpenAI explores social features, ships new models, and Google previews Gemini 2.5 Flash while debuting Veo 2 in Gemini.
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Scaling Models or Scaling People? Llama 4, A2A, and the State of AI in 2025
Meta launches Llama 4, OpenAI resets its roadmap, Google introduces agent protocol, and new reports chart AI adoption.
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AI Gets Faster, Smarter, and Less Honest: Runway Gen-4, the Ghibli Effect, and Anthropic’s Warning
Runway releases Gen-4, OpenAI announces open-weight model, Alibaba prepares to release Qwen 3.
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