2026-07-20
AI is writing your date’s messages. The dating apps say they cannot stop it.
Singles are feeding their dating app conversations into ChatGPT and Claude, asking the models to write replies, analyse what went wrong, and generate opening lines. The practice, called “chatfishing,” has produced a 5,000% spike in Google searches and a growing trail of Reddit posts and TikTok confessionals. Twenty-six per cent of US adults, and 49% […]<br /> This story continues at Th [...]
2026-07-20
A $400M nonprofit backed by France and DeepMind is building AI’s ‘public option’
A farmer in rural India photographs a dying plant and wants to look it up. She does not speak English, and today’s AI barely speaks hers. A nonprofit called Current AI thinks that is a problem worth fixing. Its goal is grand: a “public option” for AI, open and free to anyone, much like the […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-20
YouTube’s picture-in-picture mode is broken on Android and iOS. Google says it is investigating.
YouTube’s picture-in-picture mode is failing on both Android and iOS for a growing number of users. When the app is exited, the audio continues playing in the background but the floating video overlay does not appear. Google acknowledged the bug in a YouTube Help forum post, saying “our teams are actively investigating the issue.” Most […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-20
The European Parliament is building its own AI to stop MEPs pasting draft laws into ChatGPT
The European Parliament has a problem with AI, and its answer is more AI. Lawmakers keep using public chatbots to help write legislation. So the institution is building a sanctioned platform to bring that habit under control. The internal tool, called EPGenAI Hub, will give MEPs and staff access to models from Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
