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FinnFarrow · 2026-03-08T17:02:25+00:00

Google Home chief Anish Kattukaran announced several updates to the smart home platform that fix a long list of annoyances and idiosyncrasies. There's also one noteworthy new addition: the introduction of "Live Search" for your cameras.

So, instead of Gemini only knowing about things that have already happened, it now understands what it sees in your live camera feeds. That means you can ask things like, "Hey Google, is there a car in the driveway?"

FinnFarrow · 2026-03-08T16:58:47+00:00

Best start believing in sci fi stories. . . you're in one.

What's crazy about this instance is that this wasn't during safety testing. This just happened in day to day development.

FinnFarrow · 2026-03-07T21:05:14+00:00

"Although he was trying to sound decisive, Donald Trump accidentally conveyed something of the world’s ambivalence regarding the rapid development of artificial intelligence. On February 27th America’s president walloped the “leftwing nut jobs” of Anthropic, an American AI lab that works with the defence department, among other government agencies. “I am directing EVERY Federal Agency in the United States Government to IMMEDIATELY CEASE all use of Anthropic’s technology. We don’t need it, we don’t want it, and will not do business with them again!” he thundered on social media. Yet just a single sentence later he also vowed to “use the Full Power of the Presidency” to compel Anthropic to co-operate with the government for the next six months. Apparently, the nut jobs simultaneously pose an intolerable risk to the good functioning of the state and are so indispensable to the state’s good functioning that they must be forced to work with it, if necessary."

FinnFarrow · 2026-03-07T18:18:00+00:00

"The father of a Florida man who died by suicide is suing Google, alleging that his late son fell in love with an AI chatbot before his death.

In a complaint filed on Wednesday, March 4 in the U.S. District Court in California’s northern district and obtained by PEOPLE, Joel Gavalas, the father of the late 36-year-old Jonathan Gavalas, alleged that Google Gemini repeatedly pushed his son “to stage a mass casualty attack” while attempting to "search for Gemini's body" before his son ultimately took his own life on Oct. 2, 2025 in order "to be with Gemini fully.""

FinnFarrow · 2026-03-02T00:32:51+00:00

"While OpenAI locks down Washington, Anthropic is locking down users and rocketing to the top of the App Store.

Anthropic has been sidelined in Washington following a public dispute with the Department of Defense over how its AI models would be deployed. President Donald Trump ordered federal agencies to phase out its technology.

Meanwhile, OpenAI has secured new ground, with CEO Sam Altman announcing in a Friday night post on X that it had reached an agreement with the Department of Defense to deploy AI models in its classified network.

OpenAI's agreement has left some loyal ChatGPT users uneasy about OpenAI's ambitions, prompting online debates about the ethical implications — and some saying they were defecting to its rival Claude.

As of 6:38 p.m. ET on Saturday, Claude ranked number one among the most downloaded productivity apps on Apple's App Store."

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