Hands-on with Gemini task automation on mobile: it's super impressive despite being very slow and failing at some tasks; it can order food, book Ubers, and more — It took nine minutes to order my dinner, but it still feels like the future. … I've been testing out Gemini's new task automation …
How gig apps like Kled AI, Silencio, Neon Mobile, and Luel AI pay users for data that AI companies can use to train models, from phone calls to videos of places — Gig AI trainers worldwide are selling moments of their lives, including calls and texts, to AI companies for quick cash
A look at “tokenmaxxing”, a status game where employees at a number of companies compete on leaderboards to show how much AI they're using — An engineer at OpenAI processed 210 billion “tokens” — enough text to fill Wikipedia 33 times — through the company's artificial intelligence models …
Social media accounts showing AI-generated women as pro-Trump soldiers, truckers, and cops have gone viral, with thousands appearing to believe they are real — The beautiful Army blonde Jessica Foster has posed with an F-22 Raptor fighter jet, donned camouflage in the desert and walked …
Microsoft acknowledges complaints about Windows 11, promising a reduction of “unnecessary” Copilot integrations, more control over updates, and more — ZDNET's key takeaways — Microsoft finally acknowledged complaints about Windows 11. — The company is promising sweeping changes to a slew of features.
Sources: contract electronics manufacturer Zetwerk plans to file for an IPO in India, aiming to raise ~$550M at a ~$4B valuation; it was valued at $3.1B in 2024 — India's Zetwerk is preparing to confidentially file draft papers for an initial public offering within the next one to two weeks …
Bluesky raised a $100M Series B led by Bain Capital Crypto in April 2025, following a $15M Series A in 2024 and an $8M seed in 2023; it now has over 43M users — Social network Bluesky is gearing up for big changes with today's news that the company raised $100 million in Series B funding.