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Browser extensions with 8 million users collect extended AI conversations

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Browser extensions with more than 8 million installs are harvesting users’ complete and extended AI conversations and selling them for marketing purposes, according to data collected from the Google and Microsoft pages hosting them. Security firm Koi discovered the eight extensions, which as of late Tuesday night remained available in both Google’s and Microsoft’s extension […]

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Merriam-Webster’s word of the year delivers a dismissive verdict on junk AI content

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Like most tools, generative AI models can be misused. And when the misuse gets bad enough that a major dictionary notices, you know it has become a cultural phenomenon. On Sunday, Merriam-Webster announced that “slop” is its 2025 Word of the Year, reflecting how the term has become shorthand for the flood of low-quality AI-generated

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OpenAI built an AI coding agent and uses it to improve the agent itself

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With the popularity of AI coding tools rising among some software developers, their adoption has begun to touch every aspect of the process, including human developers using the tools to improve existing AI coding tools. We’re not talking about runaway self-improvement here; just people using tools to improve the tools themselves. In interviews with Ars

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OpenAI releases GPT-5.2 after “code red” Google threat alert

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On Thursday, OpenAI released GPT-5.2, its newest family of AI models for ChatGPT, in three versions called Instant, Thinking, and Pro. The release follows CEO Sam Altman’s internal “code red” memo earlier this month, which directed company resources toward improving ChatGPT in response to competitive pressure from Google’s Gemini 3 AI model. “We designed 5.2

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