OpenAI has begun rolling out a lock for ChatGPT conversations. You can hide selected chats from regular history and search, then open them with a four-digit PIN or supported device authentication. This will help prevent accidentally embarrassing screen shares, but it also creates a new opportunity for people to misunderstand what "private" means. Continue Reading →
Developers are using AI coding assistants to replace smart-TV home screens and disable advertising and tracking components. They're basically turning smart TVs into dumber TVs. Why? 1) Because they can. 2) Because smart TV interfaces are filled with bloatware and other annoying stuff that, in some engineers' eyes, seriously degrades the UX. Continue Reading →
A major AI-driven business disruption is coming, whether from inexperienced bad actors with capable models or from self-organizing agents doing things nobody foresaw. Here is the playbook: who has authority, what happens in the first hour, how the business keeps operating, and how to practice before you need it. Continue Reading →
Google's Universal Cart lets shoppers save products from multiple retailers, get price-drop and restock alerts, and check out with Google Pay. A rise in orders attributed to Google cannot tell you whether it created profitable demand or just moved where existing demand gets fulfilled. Continue Reading →
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