Category Applications

Google’s AI Mode Adds App Connections for Tasks Like Shopping, Design and Music

Google’s AI Mode adds app links for Instacart, Canva and YouTube, turning conversational search into a task-completing assistant.

OpenAI’s ChatGPT basketball is a $70 merch item that shows how the AI company is turning its brand into a lifestyle product.

DoorDash CLI lets AI agents place orders from a terminal, signaling a bigger push into agentic commerce for developers.

1Password’s Claude browser integration lets the AI use saved logins without seeing passwords, improving agent automation while protecting secrets.

The EU’s Google DMA ruling forces Android and Search access changes that could boost AI rivals and reshape competition in Europe.

Police AI is moving into reports, analytics and decision-making, raising new questions about accountability, privacy and due process.

Meta’s AI opt-out backlash shows how default settings shape consent, privacy and AI adoption across Big Tech platforms.

Industrial AI startup Applied Computing raised $20M to scale Orbital, its model for oil and gas plants, backed by KBR and Databricks Ventures.

xAI has filed a Grok deepfake lawsuit against a South Carolina man it says used the chatbot to generate CSAM and nonconsensual images.

AI slop movies are being used as marketing stunts, with Fountain 0’s Odysseus: The Fall tied to Nolan’s Odyssey buzz.