AI Assistants

GPTs Retire, Gems Become Skills: Picking a Custom AI Assistant in Late 2026

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GPTs Retire, Gems Become Skills: Picking a Custom AI Assistant in Late 2026

The preconfigured AI assistant — the small, purpose-built bot you assemble inside ChatGPT, Gemini or Claude so you never have to paste the same instructions twice — is heading into its most disruptive stretch yet. Two of the three dominant formats are being taken apart and rebuilt under new names, while the third is quietly … Read more

Hidden Prompts in Email Turn AI Inbox Assistants Into Attack Tools

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Hidden Prompts in Email Turn AI Inbox Assistants Into Attack Tools

Phishing emails have acquired a second reader. Security researchers have documented a campaign in which each message carries two payloads: a conventional social-engineering lure meant for the person who opens it, and a set of concealed instructions aimed at the AI assistant that summarizes, prioritizes and triages the inbox before any human sees it. A … Read more