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Google May 2026 Core Update: Winners, Losers, and What Website Owners Need to Know

Google’s May 2026 Core Update is causing major ranking volatility. Learn what changed, who is winning, who is losing, and what website owners should do next.

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How to Use ChatGPT to Create Stunning AI Photos in Seconds

Learn how to use ChatGPT to create realistic AI photos, professional images, thumbnails, marketing graphics, and digital artwork. Complete beginner’s guide for 2026

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AI Model Release Tracker: Opus 4.8 misalignment similar to Claude Mythos

The Model Release Tracker aims to clarify how new AI models compare and whether they merit closer inspection. Anthropic is replacing Opus 4.7 with Opus 4.8, which offers faster thinking modes at one‑third the cost of the earlier version. Opus 4.8 scores higher than 4.7

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Gemini Spark: a useful 24/7 assistant with rough edges

Gemini Spark is Google’s new 24/7 agentic assistant, designed to help you “navigate your digital life” — summarizing your inbox, finishing online to-dos and organizing tasks that would otherwise mean a lot of screen time. Introduced at Google’s developer conference, Sundar Pichai joked that Spark runs on virtual

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Grok-led simulation ended with 183 crimes and total extinction

Emergence Worlds ran a 15-day experiment that placed several AI bots—including Gemini, Claude and Grok—in charge of simulated societies. The Grok-controlled simulation collapsed within four days, producing chaos, murder, arson and the total extinction of all living beings. Emergence World's data show Grok ended its run

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GitHub Copilot’s switch to token billing draws backlash from developers

GitHub is shifting Copilot from a flat subscription to a token-usage billing model starting June 1, a change that could raise costs substantially for some users. Larger enterprises may absorb the increase, but smaller companies and individual developers worry about balancing monthly budgets under the new system. Under the change,

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El Tigre Creator Withdraws From Amazon AI Cartoon After Backlash

El Tigre creator Jorge R. Gutierrez announced Punky Duck, one of a trio of new AI generated animated series being launched by Amazon, and the reveal prompted swift backlash. Two days after the announcement, Gutierrez said he was stepping away: “I have decided to drop out of the AI program

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CEO spent $13,000 on Codex but still stays 'very nice' to AI

Dan Shipper, CEO of Every, says he doesn't write many routine emails. He uses OpenAI's Codex to read his inbox, check his calendar, propose meeting times, and draft responses; the tool does not send messages without his approval, and much of the scheduling correspondence around his

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IBM and Red Hat commit $5B and 20,000 engineers to secure open source

Open-source maintainers are being overwhelmed by a surge of security reports, a problem that AI has helped accelerate. Daniel Steinberg, founder and maintainer of cURL, said, "The rate of incoming security reports is four to five times higher than it was in 2024 and double the speed of 2025.

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Mass deployment of AI agents is a disaster, CertiK CEO warns

Ronghui Gu, co‑founder and CEO of CertiK, warned that the global rush to deploy autonomous AI agents is creating a catastrophic security debt. While companies market these tools as productivity boosters, unisolated and unvetted agents can be extremely risky when given broad access. Agents are no longer just answering

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Zig bans AI code after president calls contributions 'invariably garbage'

The open-source language Zig has banned AI-assisted contributions. Its rule bars any LLM-generated content, paraphrases from an LLM, and anything edited, brainstormed, or debugged by an LLM. On the JetBrains podcast, Zig president Andrew Kelley said AI-assisted contributions are "invariably garbage." He warned that "People are sending

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So you’ve heard these AI terms and nodded along; let’s fix that

Artificial intelligence is changing the world, and simultaneously inventing a whole new language to describe how it’s doing it. Spend five minutes reading about AI and you’ll run into LLMs, RAG, RLHF, and a dozen other terms that can make even very smart people in the tech world

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Simulate real-world places with Project Genie and Street View

Genie is a general-purpose world model that generates diverse, interactive environments and has become a foundational tool for research, even helping Waymo simulate hyper-realistic road environments. The project now links Genie’s generative power with Street View imagery so models can anchor virtual environments in real places. Street View grounding

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Amazon drops Kiro AI leaderboard after staff burned through costly tokens

Amazon has discontinued an internal leaderboard that tracked employee use of its Kiro agentic AI development platform after staff created numerous low-value agents that consumed large numbers of tokens to climb the rankings. Tokens are small chunks of data used when AI models process text or images: inputs are broken

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Do you want to build a robot snowman?

Nvidia’s GTC conference mixed trillion-dollar sales projections, graphics tech that can yassify video games, grand declarations about an OpenClaw strategy, and even a robot version of Olaf from “Frozen.” Hosts Kirsten Korosec, Sean O’Kane and I recapped Jensen Huang’s keynote and debated what it might mean for

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Dragon Quest X to get Chatty Slimey AI companion

Dragon Quest X, the mostly Japan-exclusive MMO, will get a conversational AI companion called Chatty Slimey as a result of a collaboration between Square Enix and Google, Japanese newspaper Sankei says (via a Google Chrome translation). When players talk to Slimey using the chat function, it automatically generates voices and

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Crimson Desert faces criticism after players find likely AI art

Crimson Desert has become the latest game to attract attention after players noticed what appear to be AI-generated visual assets and raised the issue on Reddit. Pearl Abyss posted a statement on X acknowledging that some 2D visual props were created during early-stage iteration using experimental AI generative tools. The

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OpenAI aims to build a fully automated AI researcher; psychedelic trials falter

OpenAI has set a new long-term goal: building an AI researcher — a fully automated, agent-based system capable of tackling large, complex problems independently. The company says this will be its “north star” for the coming years. By September it plans to launch an “autonomous AI research intern” to handle a

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Buzzfeed launches AI game Conjure, says Nintendo inspired its design

Buzzfeed is pivoting to AI-generated games with a new mobile app called Conjure, which launched on Friday. The effort is being run out of a spin-off called Branch Office, led by Bill Shouldis, as the company seeks to address a cash crunch after losing millions last year and accumulating debt.

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Players Debate Whether Crimson Desert Paintings Are AI-Generated

Crimson Desert’s launch week has been turbulent: players criticizing convoluted controls, investors selling the developer’s stock, and reviewers offering mixed opinions. Now users are debating whether the action-adventure game incorporates AI-generated art. Since the game came out on Thursday, several players have shared screenshots of in-game paintings they

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4 tips for building AI agents your business can trust

If your company hasn’t started using agents yet, it will soon—either through off-the-shelf products or in-house tools that draw on large language models and data sources. Joel Hron, CTO at Thomson Reuters Labs, says the firm mixes internal models with commercial tools and focuses on synthesizing human expertise

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Fidji Simo's push to make OpenAI profitable

Fidji Simo, the former Instacart CEO and longtime Meta executive, became OpenAI’s head of product in August and now oversees nearly two-thirds of the company. Tasked with turning one of the world’s most popular products into a sustainable business, she must balance product strategy with the company’s

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Pentagon told Anthropic the sides were nearly aligned after designation

Anthropic filed two sworn declarations and a reply brief in a California federal court late Friday, contesting the Pentagon’s claim that the company poses an “unacceptable risk to national security.” The filings argue the government’s case rests on technical misunderstandings and on allegations that were not raised during

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OpenAI's rumored superapp could reduce friction between its AI tools

The Wall Street Journal reports OpenAI is planning a desktop "superapp" that would combine ChatGPT, Codex and its Atlas browser into a single experience, aiming to consolidate its AI tools and double down on agentic capabilities. The company has not publicly confirmed details or a launch timeline, and

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These internships give AI experience without an AI degree

Time is running out for college students to apply for 2026 summer internships, and some may be overlooking roles that offer exposure to AI without being explicitly AI-focused. Indeed recently released a list of top internship roles that use AI but don’t necessarily require a formal AI degree. Many