TechCrunch
OpenAI's First Hardware Device Is a Screenless Speaker That Can Move, Because Why Not
OpenAI is making a moving, screenless speaker with 'personality' that learns from your emails, because your smart home wasn't creepy enough.
2026-07-15
TechCrunch
2026-07-12
The Atlantic
AI’s Favorite Sentence Structure Is Not Just Annoying, It’s Inescapable
AI chatbots are addicted to the 'not X, but Y' sentence structure, and it's spreading to human speech like a linguistic virus.
2026-07-11
TechCrunch
OpenAI Hires Someone to Figure Out How to Make ChatGPT Not Creepy for Kids
OpenAI hires a family-focused product manager as ChatGPT users get older and parents realize their kids are already chatting with AI behind their backs.
2026-07-09
ZDNet
ChatGPT's Live Voice Upgrade Can Now Fake Being a Good Listener, Just Like Your Best Friend
OpenAI's GPT-Live voice upgrade lets ChatGPT listen and talk simultaneously, interjecting with 'Mmhm' and 'Yeah' to fake human conversation - perfect for when you need an AI to pretend to care about your cat's lunar adventures.
2026-07-08
TechCrunch
OpenAI Unleashes New Voice Models That Can Actually Let You Finish a Sentence
OpenAI's new voice models finally let you interrupt your AI assistant, but live translation still sounds like a tourist who took one semester of Hindi.
2026-07-07
ZDNet
I Let ChatGPT Into My Bank Account and It’s Now My Finances Bestie - Here’s the Tea
I gave ChatGPT the keys to my bank accounts, and it's now my go-to finance app - because nothing says 'responsible adulting' like letting an AI manage your money.
2026-06-24
TechCrunch
VCs Admit They Have No Idea What They're Doing, But That's Never Stopped Them Before
Two venture capitalists sit in a sunny room and explain why AI valuations make no sense, chickens are the future of drug manufacturing, and LA might finally have an edge over San Francisco (it's taste, not compute).
2026-06-18
ZDNet
ChatGPT's New Memory Upgrade Remembers Everything About You, Including Things That Never Happened
OpenAI's Dreaming V3 gives ChatGPT a memory that remembers everything you've ever said, including the stuff you never actually said - progress has never been so unsettling.
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