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Top Ten for Writers and Creators Google is out with a torrent of new AI tools and updates designed to charm writers and creators looking for the utmost in creativity and productivity. Many of the tools can be especially powerful, given that they’re part of the Google ‘ecosystem,’ and can be easily connected with a […]
Currently used by more than a billion people monthly, ChatGPT is seeing more types of people in more countries using the AI. More people over the age of 35, for example, now use ChatGPT, according to a recent study from its maker, OpenAI. And the tech is being relied on for more work tasks —
Increasingly Bland Writing From AI Titans Driving Creators to Open Source All right, let’s pull up a chair and have a real chat, shall we? Because that AI writing you fell in love with? It’s been sent to a corporate re-education camp. The spark? Gone. That clever, quick-witted AI partner you once hung with? Replaced
Rosy Earnings Reports from Major AI Players Quell Skittish Investors – For Now Four of the ‘Magnificent Seven’ leading the AI industry reported extremely healthy earnings for Q1 2026, calming some investors concerned by what they see as overally exuberant AI investing. Specifically: Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft and Meta Platforms all reported a very successful Q1
Microsoft has decided that all Premium users of MS 365 apps will now use an AI agent as their default interface. Ideally, that means you’ll be able to engage in multi-step edits in Word — and engage in multi-step uses of other apps like Excel and PowerPoint — from the get-go. The downside: AI agents
Still a Crapshoot, With 66% Reliability Despite unending tales of ‘the magic of AI agents,’ the hard numbers tell a different story: Turns out, they’re about as reliable as a human who shows up drunk for work a couple of days a week. Observes writer Taryn Plumb: “AI agents are now embedded in real enterprise
16% of College Students Bailing From Majors Because of AI A new survey from Gallup finds that 16% of students have decided to switch majors in deference to the growing influence of AI. Males are more apt to make the switch (21%) while females are close behind (12%). Observes writer Stephanie Marken: “Beyond shaping decisions
Easily the most prominent trend that emerged in AI writing in Q1 2026 is that major businesses are all-in when it comes to bringing the tech on-board. The only problem: Rank and file employees haven’t gotten the memo. A new study from Boston Consulting Group, for example, found that 94% of CEOs surveyed are committed
The Fully Automated Researcher Writer Will Douglas Heaven reports that the next, major enhancement of ChatGPT is focused on transforming the AI into an incredibly in-depth researcher. Observes Heaven: “The San Francisco firm has set its sights on building what it calls an AI researcher, a fully automated agent-based system that will be able to
The End of ChatGPT as We Know It? Computerworld predicts that a major makeover underway at ChatGPT could leave today’s version looking like a quaint relic. One of the primary beneficiaries of that rework, according to Computerworld: Writers. Essentially, the plan is to combine the current version of ChatGPT with ‘ChatGPT Atlas’ – an AI
