AI on Your Phone: 7 Features You May Already Use Without Realizing It
When people hear “artificial intelligence on a phone,” most imagine a chatbot that answers questions. But machine learning has also been quietly powering everyday features…
Why Does AI Make Up Facts? How to Spot AI Hallucinations
You ask a chatbot for the title of a scientific study, and without hesitation it provides the authors, year and a link. When you click…
What Not to Share With an AI Chatbot: 5 Types of Sensitive Data to Keep Private
An AI chat can correct text, summarize a document or help draft an email. But it is very easy to paste something into the chat…
What Is AI Slop, and Why Is the Internet Full of It?
If you have recently come across bizarre images on social media, endless videos with artificial voices, or articles that sound polished but do not actually…
GPT-6 Astra: What Can OpenAI’s New ChatGPT Model Do, and What’s New?
OpenAI unveiled GPT-6 Astra on September 3, 2026, describing it as the company’s most powerful model to date. Although the name “ChatGPT Astra” also appears…
AI “girlfriends” and chatbots: why this trend is exploding—and where the boundaries are (Replika, Character.AI)
An “AI girlfriend” is shorthand for a conversational chatbot with which you build a personal (often romanticized) relationship. The best-known apps are Replika and Character.AI.…
Artificial intelligence in marketing is no longer just a “buzzword”
AI has made its way into everyday marketing activities—from ideation and content creation to campaign planning and measurement. Rather than an expensive “lab-only” technology, it’s…
How Does ChatGPT Work? What’s Under the Hood
ChatGPT today is built on the GPT-5 generation—a unified system that combines a “fast” general-purpose model, a “deep” model for demanding problems, and an intelligent…
