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YouTube is overrun by “AI Slop”—and it’s not just your imagination
1+ hour, 29+ min ago (430+ words) AI is taking over YouTube, with 21% of videos for new users being AI-generated and 33% being generic content, raking in an estimated $117 million in ad revenue. If your YouTube recommendations have started to look like a graveyard of bizarre, low-effort videos'think…...
YouTube’s algorithm is on an AI slop and brainrot only diet
3+ hour, 49+ min ago (318+ words) If you've ever opened YouTube and seen a talking AI SpongeBob, a looping slime video, or something that feels engineered to melt your brain just enough to keep you scrolling, congrats." According to a new study from Kapwing, you're not…...
Amazon turns Alexa into an actual personal assistant
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (396+ words) Alexa+ is supposed to do the searching and hiring professionals, comparing and booking flights and hotels, and also paying, for you. Amazon has decided that Alexa's true calling isn't telling you the weather or misunderstanding your grocery list. It's running…...
Gmail finally lets you fix that cringey old email address
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (341+ words) For nearly two decades, Gmail users have lived with a quiet but powerful truth: the email address you picked at 2 AM in 2006, possibly involving a nickname, was forever." Google, famously, did not let you change a @gmail.com address once…...
Google's Assistant-to-Gemini Switch Delayed to 2026. What Does This Mean for You?
1+ week, 1+ day ago (358+ words) Assistant will still keep handling alarms, calls, and quick questions. Google has a habit of announcing the future with great confidence and then quietly clearing its throat a few months later." That's more or less what's happening with its plan…...
Google's Gemini 3 Flash AI Model Outperforms OpenAI's Latest?
1+ week, 5+ day ago (470+ words) Gemini 3 Flash is based on the Gemini 3 model with a goal to: do more, cost less, and show up everywhere. Google drops Gemini 3 Flash, a new AI model that's faster, cheaper, and very clearly aimed at stealing a little thunder…...
Need Help Managing Your Day? Meet Google's New AI Assistant, CC
1+ week, 6+ day ago (305+ words) Meet "CC," Google's new Gemini-powered AI agent that's not just a helper'it's your personal assistant for the future. Google just unveiled "CC," a new Gemini-powered AI agent that lives inside your Google account and quietly runs interference on your day…...
Google Translate Just Got Ridiculously Smarter
2+ week, 1+ day ago (367+ words) Google's Gemini AI is not just translating'it's transforming communication across 70+ languages in real-time. With its expansion to 20 new countries, language learning is getting a major upgrade. Google's dropping some serious upgrades to Translate that'll make you wonder how we ever…...
Can IoT Analytics Transform How Public Services Operate?
3+ week, 58+ min ago (614+ words) IoT analytics is revolutionizing public sector operations, using raw sensor data to extract actionable insights. Every minute, city buses, traffic lights, waste bins, air-quality monitors, and countless other public assets quietly publish millions of sensor readings. Most of that raw…...
Claude Code in Slack: Is This the Future of Lazy Software Engineering?
3+ week, 7+ hour ago (382+ words) Anthropic is rolling out something that feels like the future of lazy yet productive software engineering: Claude Code in Slack." Developers can now tell Claude to take a bug report sitting in a Slack thread and, without switching tabs or…...