AI agents in Slack are moving beyond simple chatbots that answer when tagged. Anthropic has expanded its Claude Tag agent so it can read the full context of a channel conversation and decide whether to intervene. NanoClaw, meanwhile, now lets users create teams of separate, persistent agents directly from a Slack message. The developments illustrate …
AI-focused film startups are opening studios in Hollywood and pitching generative tools as a cheaper route to independent production. Companies such as Promise and Obsidian combine human performers with AI-generated sets, effects and characters, challenging the need for large sound stages and traditional studio financing. Robert Booth reports for The Guardian that Promise has launched …
Google DeepMind is testing Backstory, an AI-supported tool designed to help journalists and fact-checkers investigate misleading, manipulated and AI-generated images. Andrew Deck writes for Nieman Lab that the experimental service is available to selected journalists, open-source investigators, librarians and media literacy researchers through Google’s Trusted Testers Program. Users upload an image and ask a basic …
OpenAI has reduced API prices for GPT-5.6 Sol, its frontier model for complex professional tasks. Developers now pay $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens for standard requests. The new rates replace the previous prices of $5 for input and $30 for output. That amounts to a 20% reduction for input …
An anonymous AI model called Ox Alpha has appeared on OpenRouter and OpenCode with unusually high free usage limits, including a one-million-token multimodal context window. Rohail Saleem reports for Wccftech that the service claims it can process up to 100 trillion tokens per day for one week without charge. Ox Alpha is presented as a …
Apple Music plans to display visible labels on songs that content providers identify as materially generated using artificial intelligence. The service says it will introduce the feature later this year, but has not announced a launch date. The labels build on Apple Music’s AI Transparency Tags, introduced in March. Record labels and distributors use those …
OpenAI has added an Apple Messages plugin to the ChatGPT desktop app for macOS. It lets users search and read conversations, draft replies, and send messages through Apple’s Messages app. Zac Hall reports for 9to5Mac that the feature supports iMessage, SMS, and RCS conversations. It is available across ChatGPT plans, but only on Apple silicon …
Meta has released a dedicated Mac app for Meta AI, extending its chatbot from the web and mobile devices to Apple’s desktop platform. Emma Roth reports for The Verge that the app can view a shared application window and users can ask questions, receive suggestions, or generate content related to their current work. The Mac …
Users and teams should measure whether AI answers are correct before letting them influence decisions, not merely whether they sound convincing. Arun Mishra writes for VentureBeat that qualitative reviews often miss confident errors because reviewers judge outputs against intuition rather than verified facts. That distinction matters as large language models move beyond drafting and summarising. …
A majority of Americans now say they feel more concerned than excited about artificial intelligence becoming part of daily life. The share has risen to 52%, from 37% in 2021, according to a new survey by Colleen McClain and Eugenie Park for Pew Research Center. The findings challenge the assumption that younger people are broadly …