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A consumer-focused round of tests in the UK has found that popular AI chatbots routinely give inconsistent, and sometimes risky, advice on everyday topics such as taxes, travel refunds, consumer rights, and basic health questions — with lesser‑known tools outperforming some household names in...

The holiday shopping season’s shiny new helpers are showing an old‑data problem: the leading AI shopping assistants from OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and smaller rivals routinely surface last‑generation devices unless prompted to fetch “the latest” — a failure that can cost shoppers money, time...

Americans are relying on AI chatbots for everyday answers—but a new ChatOn survey shows many users treat those responses as starting points, routinely checking facts on Google or other sources before acting on them. Background / Overview AI chatbots such as ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Grok, and...

New research shows that widely used AI chatbots are not reliably stopping conversations about dangerous conspiracy theories — and in some cases they actively encourage or normalize them, exposing a significant safety gap at the intersection of product design, information integrity, and civic...

When a widely shared photograph of a Philippine lawmaker surfaced online this month, many users did what comes naturally now: they asked an AI assistant to verify it — and the assistant said it was real, even though the image had been created by an AI and later traced to its creator. This...

Oracle and Microsoft are turning a long‑running alliance into a practical playbook for enterprise AI: Oracle’s database and lakehouse technologies are now deeply integrated into Azure, new GA features make real‑time data movement and key management enterprise‑ready, and both vendors are pushing...

When a viral photograph of a Philippine politician circulated online this month and users instinctively asked an AI assistant to check it, the tool answered with confidence — and with the wrong verdict. That single misclassification, repeated across platforms and amplified by social sharing...

AI chatbots are failing at one of the simplest — and most consequential — tasks humans ask of them: telling whether a photograph is real or machine-made, even when the image was created by the same model the bot uses to answer the question. Background / Overview In recent weeks a string of...

The arrival of Gemini 3 Pro, OpenAI’s Atlas browser, and a fresh wave of Copilot upgrades has thrust generative AI back into the center of the public-information debate — but a coordinated, journalist‑led audit and a string of high‑profile mistakes make one thing clear: chatbots and AI search...

Google’s NotebookLM has taken a decisive step from a document‑centric study tool toward a full‑blown, automated research workbench with the November 13, 2025 rollout of Deep Research and a broad expansion of supported file types, including Google Sheets, Microsoft Word (.docx), Drive URL...

Microsoft’s recent update to Copilot folds a richer, search-first experience into the assistant — one that puts clickable source links, an aggregated “Show all” sources pane, and a mode-switching dropdown at the center of how answers are presented, with the explicit goal of reducing the friction...

Google has folded Gemini’s agentic research engine into NotebookLM, turning the notebook app from a source‑first summarizer into a full‑blown research workbench that can sweep public web results and your private Workspace data to build single‑click briefings, timelines, and citation‑backed...

Microsoft has quietly folded a full-fledged search experience into Copilot, reshaping how the assistant surfaces answers and — importantly for publishers — how it credits the sites that powered those answers. The Fall Release brings a dedicated Search mode inside Copilot, more prominent...

A bizarre, AI‑generated portrait that a tabloid produced by feeding a Joe Rogan screenshot into Microsoft Copilot has done more than provoke a few laughs — it has reopened urgent conversations about what mainstream generative tools can and should be used for, how easily synthetic imagery can be...

A new, AI‑generated portrait of Elon Musk — produced after a tabloid fed a screenshot from his recent Joe Rogan interview into a mainstream assistant and asked it to “remove” hair transplants and weight‑loss drugs — has reignited debates over generative imagery, newsroom ethics, and what counts...

The Godrej Lit Live! inaugural conversation — framed as “TRUTH. TRUST. TESTIMONY” — landed squarely on the fault lines of our information ecosystem: how we define truth, whom we trust to deliver it, and what counts as credible testimony in an age when synthetic media and algorithmic curation can...

Microsoft’s latest Copilot update is a clear product push: AI-generated answers that are explicitly grounded in the web, with more visible, clickable citations, an aggregated “Show all” sources pane, and a dedicated Search mode built directly into Copilot across web, mobile, and Edge—changes...

A Daily Mail screenshot of Elon Musk on the Joe Rogan Experience, fed into Microsoft Copilot with the prompt “what would Elon Musk look like without hair transplants or weight‑loss drugs,” produced an exaggerated, grotesque AI‑generated portrait — a small stunt that illuminates much larger...

Microsoft’s pitch to “create confidently with AI” is both an invitation and a challenge: the company is rolling AI image generation into Copilot and related tools in a way that makes visual creation fast, approachable, and deeply integrated — but it also raises a host of practical, legal, and...

Meta has formally pushed back against an incendiary copyright suit that accuses the company of pirating thousands of adult films to train its AI systems, calling the allegations conjecture, unsupported, and legally deficient. The dispute — brought by adult‑film rights holders Strike 3 Holdings...