The Browser Company has released Dia, a new web browser that places artificial intelligence at its core. The beta version launched Wednesday for existing users of the company’s previous browser, Arc, while others must join a waitlist. Dia features a ChatGPT-like chatbot accessible through a sidebar and the URL bar. The AI assistant can analyze … Read more
News publishers are experiencing dramatic traffic declines as Google’s artificial intelligence features replace traditional search results. Major outlets report losing more than half their search-driven visitors over the past three years. Isabella Simonetti and Katherine Blunt report in The Wall Street Journal that Google’s AI Overviews and new AI Mode are fundamentally changing how users … Read more
French AI company Mistral has released its first reasoning models and announced plans to build European cloud infrastructure, positioning itself as an alternative to American tech giants. The company unveiled two AI models called Magistral alongside a new data center project near Paris. Magistral Small, with 24 billion parameters, is available as open-source software under … Read more
A new study reveals significant differences in how well popular AI chatbots understand and analyze written content. Geoffrey A. Fowler from The Washington Post tested five major AI tools on their ability to comprehend literature, legal documents, scientific papers, and political speeches. The competition involved ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Meta AI Llama, and Gemini answering 115 … Read more
Apple faces mounting pressure as it prepares for its Worldwide Developers Conference on June 9, with the company struggling to match competitors like OpenAI and Google in artificial intelligence development. One year after launching Apple Intelligence, the tech giant appears to be falling further behind in the AI race. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple … Read more
Travel website founder Nate Hake claims Google deliberately destroyed thousands of independent publishers to make room for AI-powered search features. In a 34-page letter to the Federal Trade Commission, Hake details how his site Travel Lemming lost over 95% of its Google search traffic following algorithm updates in late 2023 and early 2024. Hake argues … Read more
Black Forest Labs has released FLUX.1 Kontext, a new family of AI models that can both generate and edit images. The German startup announced the launch on Thursday, introducing technology that accepts both text prompts and reference images as input. The company offers two main versions of the model. FLUX.1 Kontext [pro] allows users to … Read more
Dario Amodei, CEO of AI company Anthropic, predicts that artificial intelligence could eliminate half of all entry-level white-collar jobs within the next one to five years. The 42-year-old executive warned that unemployment could rise to 10-20% as AI technology rapidly improves, Axios reports. Amodei claims AI systems are becoming better than humans at intellectual tasks … Read more
Anthropic has launched a voice mode for its Claude chatbot on mobile devices. The feature allows users to have spoken conversations with Claude in English, with a rollout planned over the next few weeks. The voice mode runs on Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 model and offers five voice options called “Buttery, Airy, Mellow, Glassy and … Read more
Google unveiled Gemini Diffusion at its I/O developer conference, marking a significant shift in how AI models generate text. The experimental model uses diffusion technology instead of the traditional transformer approach that powers ChatGPT and similar systems. The key advantage is speed. Gemini Diffusion generates text at 857 to 2,000 tokens per second, which is … Read more