Health apps have come a long way from just counting steps and tracking calories. Now, AI is making them faster, smarter, and more useful in everyday life. Today’s best AI-driven apps can analyze patterns, adapt to user needs, and even offer real-time support. They can scan a mole and flag potential skin cancer risks, create personalized workout plans based on your recovery, or guide you through therapy exercises. But with hundreds of options flooding the app stores, which ones actually deliver on their promises?  After extensive reviewing and trawling over real user feedback, we found 10 ..read more

AI is changing our world, but the stories of who build it often get lost in the noise. Behind the headlines and hype, a group of women are solving AI’s fundamental challenges – despite working in an industry persisently impacted by gender inequality. Women make up just 22% of AI professionals worldwide and only 12% of AI researchers. In academic publishing, female researchers account for just 29% of first authors on AI papers, a number that hasn’t increased since the mid-2000s.  This is a story about ten leaders who have influenced AI despite the odds being stacked against them.  The ..read more

Apple has killed its Apple Intelligence AI news feature after it fabricated stories and twisted real headlines into fiction.  Apple’s AI news was supposed to make life easier by summing up news alerts from multiple sources. Instead, it created chaos by pushing out fake news, often under trusted media brands.  Here’s where it all went wrong: Using the BBC’s logo, it invented a story claiming tennis star Rafael Nadal had come out as gay, completely misunderstanding a story about a Brazilian player. It jumped the gun by announcing teenage darts player Luke Littler had won the PDC World ..read more

What began as a ski holiday Instagram post ended in financial ruin for a French interior designer after scammers used AI to convince her she was in a relationship with Brad Pitt. The 18-month scam targeted Anne, 53, who received an initial message from someone posing as Jane Etta Pitt, Brad’s mother, claiming her son “needed a woman like you.”  Not long after, Anne started talking to what she believed was the Hollywood star himself, complete with AI-generated photos and videos. “We’re talking about Brad Pitt here and I was stunned,” Anne told French media. “At first, I thought it The post ..read more

Stanford and Google DeepMind researchers have created AI that can replicate human personalities with uncanny accuracy after just a two-hour conversation.  By interviewing 1,052 people from diverse backgrounds, they built what they call “simulation agents” – digital copies that were spookily effective at predicting their human counterparts’ beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors.  To create the digital copies, the team uses data from an “AI interviewer” designed to engage participants in natural conversation.  The AI interviewer asks questions and generates personalized follow-up ques ..read more

Meta has announced plans to populate Facebook and Instagram with AI-generated profiles and content.  Connor Hayes, Meta’s vice-president of product for generative AI, outlined the company’s vision: “We expect these AIs to actually, over time, exist on our platforms, kind of in the same way that accounts do.” Hayes added that these AI entities will have “bios and profile pictures and be able to generate and share content powered by AI on the platform.” Meta has already seen hundreds of thousands of AI characters created through its tools since their US launch in July, though the vast major ..read more

For many consumers, deciphering the truth about products feels like solving a riddle. Complex ingredient lists, vague claims, and limited transparency make it nearly impossible to know what you’re really buying—or how it aligns with your health, safety, and values. This growing demand for clarity has inspired HelloYou, a developer known for creating apps that help simplify daily life, to create Skanna—an AI-powered barcode scanner app. Designed to cut through the noise, Skanna reveals the truth behind product labels, offering detailed insights into ingredients, safety, and environmental impact ..read more

Welcome to our weekly roundup of human-crafted AI news. This week OpenAI handed out API goodies. California’s AI safety bill got killed. And NVIDIA surprised us with a powerful open model. Let’s dig in. Here come the agents OpenAI didn’t announce any new models (or Sora) at its Dev Day event, but developers were excited over new API features. The Realtime API will be a game-changer for making smarter applications that speak with users and even act as agents. The demo was really cool. There have been rumors about OpenAI going the “for-profit” route and awarding Sam Altman billions of The post D ..read more

From the rise of 3D graphics to the explosion of mobile gaming, technological progress has always driven the gaming industry forward.  AI marks the latest chapter in the industry’s development, a chapter that presents both imminent challenges and longer-term existential questions. A recent survey by the Game Developers Conference found that 84% of developers are somewhat or very concerned about the ethics of generative AI, from fears of job displacement to issues like copyright infringement and the risk of AI systems scraping game data without consent. For those on the front lines of game ..read more

For years, the gaming industry seemed like an unstoppable juggernaut, with revenues rising to stratospheric heights on the backs of ever-more-immersive titles and the explosion of mobile gaming.  However, as we enter the mid-2020s, there are growing signs that the industry is reaching a plateau. After the pandemic-fueled boom of 2020 and 2021, global gaming revenues dipped in 2022. That contraction gave way to tepid growth of just 0.5% in 2023, bringing the worldwide gaming market to around $184 billion, according to data from Newzoo.  While still an impressive figure, it’s a far cry ..read more