Gemini, Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM), ChatGPT and Claude can summarize a long video or a report of hundreds of pages, but each reads differently: some only a transcript, others only a PDF’s text and not its graphics. Free plans may not fit a 300-page document in working memory. Published limits help choose a tool and … Read more
AI-generated visuals are now common in ads, packaging and websites, but the commercial licence behind them is widely misunderstood. Magnific, Adobe Firefly, Google Gemini and OpenAI’s ChatGPT all allow some commercial use. The real question is what happens when a brand, photographer or public figure objects. Only business contracts typically include intellectual-property indemnities, and nearly … Read more
Walmart is giving AI agents a dedicated front door. On Oct. 21, it unveiled an Agent Gateway and Agent Profiles that let approved assistants shop for customers across Walmart and Sam’s Club, with separate identities, default approvals and optional spending caps. Amazon chose the opposite path: it sued Perplexity, blocked Meta’s Muse and invoked its … Read more
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
A long conversation with an assistant eventually betrays you. In the opening message you asked for a formal register and no emojis; forty messages later the tone has loosened and the first emoji has surfaced. Nothing has malfunctioned. The drift follows directly from how large language models read text: at any moment they can only … Read more