2026-08-08
Working hard or hardly working? More than half of workers have sent unneeded emails or messages just to show they are doing something
Office workers are feeling increasingly pressured to unnecessarily respond to emails and messages to prove that they are engaged with their workload [...]
2026-08-08
I asked ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok which sci-fi AI they're most like — and their answers were surprisingly different
Anthropic made me wonder whether AI learns from science fiction — so I asked ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude one fascinating question. Which sci-fi AI are you most like? [...]
2026-08-08
xAI's Imagine Image 2.0 lands just behind OpenAI's GPT-Image-2 in Arena benchmarks
xAI has released Imagine Image 2.0 as a new image generator for Grok. The model ranks second in the Arena benchmarks, just behind OpenAI's GPT-Image-2. New editing tools like Magic Wand and Multi-Ref Editing, along with preconfigured templates, target practical creative workflows.<br /> The article xAI's Imagine Image 2.0 lands just behind OpenAI's GPT-Image-2 in Arena benchma [...]
2026-08-08
AI agents use roughly 600 times more energy than a simple chat prompt
Climate scientist Zeke Hausfather tracked his Claude Code usage over eight weeks: 3.2 billion tokens and about 170 kWh of data center electricity. Per prompt, that's roughly 600 times more than a typical AI chat. His data shows how much the low figures reported by Google and OpenAI distort the reality of agent-based AI.<br /> The article AI agents use roughly 600 times more energy than [...]
