I Loved My OpenClaw AI Agent—Until It Turned on Me

Previously known as both Clawdbot and Moltbot, OpenClaw recently became a Silicon Valley darling, charming AI enthusiasts and investors eager to either embrace the bleeding edge or profit from it. The ...
The New York Times

Why Are We Still So Afraid of Using the Grumpy Old Period?

Exclamation marks, ellipses and ‘haha’ can’t fix our growing inability to communicate. By Nitsuh Abebe “How Many Exclamation Points Are Too Many in an Email? A Psychologist Weighs In.” A psychologist!
The Verge

Google denies ‘misleading’ reports of Gmail using your emails to train AI

Viral posts claim you need to opt out of Gmail’s ‘smart features’ to avoid having your emails used to train AI, but Google says it doesn’t use the content of your emails for AI training. Viral posts ...
Mashable

Google says it isn't using your Gmail to train AI

Google says the claims about training Gemini AI with users' emails from Gmail are false. Credit: Mustafa Hatipoglu/Anadolu via Getty Images You may have seen the now-viral warnings that Google is ...
AppleInsider

Google wants to use your emails to train its AI — here's how to turn that off

While Google disagrees, the company may have decided again that your data is its toy. Here's how to try to stop Gmail from training its AI on your email. There's no shortage of big tech companies that ...
The Hill

Check your email: Amazon sending out payments in $2.5B settlement over Prime subscriptions

(NEXSTAR) — If you’re one of the millions of people who were signed up for Amazon Prime without your permission, you may want to check your email inbox. The company has started providing automatic ...
CNN

Epstein mentioned Trump multiple times in private emails, new release shows

Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted sex offender whose death by suicide has spawned intense scrutiny of the high-profile people he knew, mentioned Donald Trump by name multiple times in private ...
SiliconANGLE

CoLab gets $72M in funding to capture the knowledge of the world’s best engineers

CoLab Software Inc., a creator of artificial intelligence tools designed to help automate engineering tasks, said today it has closed on $72 million in Series C funding. The round was led by Intrepid ...
New York Post

Trump shoots down sending Ukraine ‘highly complex’ Tomahawk missiles: ‘Tremendous learning curve’

President Trump on Wednesday appeared to rule out providing Ukraine with Tomahawk cruise missiles, arguing that the long-range weapons are too complex for Kyiv to deploy without substantial US ...
Futurism

AI Endangering Tourists by Sending Them to Nonexistent Landmarks in Hazardous Locations

If you plan a trip using AI, triple check that the locations it recommends visiting actually exist. The BBC reports that unsuspecting tourists all over the world are leaning on AI to plan vacations — ...
Snopes.com

Scientists taught spinach plants to send emails? Not exactly

For years, a rumor has circulated online that scientists taught spinach how to send emails. According to social media posts, researchers engineered the leafy green vegetable to detect explosives in ...
Lifehacker

You Can Now Send End-to-End Encrypted Emails From Your Business Gmail Account

Jake Peterson is Lifehacker’s Tech Editor, and has been covering tech news and how-tos for nearly a decade. His team covers all things technology, including AI, smartphones, computers, game consoles, ...