AI & Emerging Tech

Nearly every brokerage app now claims to run on artificial intelligence. These seven tools actually do the work — scanning, ranking, backtesting, and executing — and each publishes a price you can check.

A viral trick called "caveman" tells AI to ditch the pleasantries and answer in grunts, and companies from Legrand to Nvidia are adopting it as token bills spiral. The catch: the real savings are far messier than the "75% off" headlines promise.

Managers are pasting staff conversations into ChatGPT to decide who gets fired, and workers are drowning in AI "workslop" that costs two hours a pop to clean up. Here's what the corporate AI mandate is actually doing to the people who live with it.

Gemini's personalized image generation just dropped its paywall for US users. The feature costs nothing in dollars because the currency is your Gmail, Photos, YouTube, and Search history.

Henrico County courted 37 data centers with the lowest tax rate in Virginia. Now, facing a 25% jump in its power bill, it's asking teachers to switch off the lights — while the servers next door never sleep.

Exelon chief Calvin Butler says parts of the U.S. could face blackouts as soon as 2027, as AI data centers drive electricity demand up faster than utilities can build new supply.

A Brown University economics professor didn't need detection software to expose the largest AI cheating case in Ivy League history. He needed one in-person exam and a simple comparison of two numbers.

A 44-room hotel on a man-made island near Shenzhen is being built to run entirely on robots — no clerks, no housekeepers, no cooks. Here's what Pudu Robotics is actually building, and why a famous Japanese flop hangs over it.

We ran the three big assistants through the same prose test and read the fine print on the tools that claim to catch them. The gap between "grammatically correct" and "sounds like a person" is where the real differences live.

Every tech company now claims to sell you an "agent," and most of them are stretching the truth. Here's what an AI agent actually is, which ones you can use right now, and when you should keep your credit card in your pocket.