Alongside the announcement of an updated experience for scheduling tasks, OpenAI said that Pulse would be going away “in the next 14 days” and suggested using scheduled tasks for a daily briefing instead.
Pulse was short-lived: the company launched it in September.
AI data center projects are continuing to pop up across the US, with frequent opposition from locals concerned about their impact. Here are a few recent articles about the projects:
The AI design chatbot’s new editor has controls for directly dragging, resizing, and aligning elements, and more options for apps you can export to, including Adobe and Canva. Users can also work on design projects directly from the Claude Code terminal, or hand off software layouts from Design directly to Claude Code, where it picks up exactly where you left off, without a screenshot or a rebuild from scratch.
During the VivaTech 2026 conference in Paris, Samsung announced a new feature for its mobile devices created through a collaboration with the pet health management platform, Lifet. You’ll be able to snap a photo of your dog or cat which will be analyzed by AI to alert you to conditions like periodontal disease and obesity.
A new dashboard will show a creator’s most popular AI characters, along with metrics including interactions, likes, and discoveries. Character.AI is also launching a feature that will notify followers when a creator launches a new chatbot.
What’s left of the shoe company after its pivot to AI (which is mostly its stock listing) has a new name and CEO, Nadia Carlsten. Smartbird also completed the sale of the Allbirds brand as it shifts its focus toward offering access to AI infrastructure and enterprise-focused AI systems.
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The Justice Department argues that xAI’s Mississippi data center should be allowed to pollute the air because it’s “critical” for military operations, which honestly explains a lot.
Nicholi:
How are we going to keep losing the war against Iran without Grok?
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After The Wizard of Oz at Sphere topped $400 million in ticket sales over the last year, Sphere Studios says it “will use its advanced technologies” to present The Rocky Horror Picture Show at Sphere.
There are no details on how much that process will resemble the Google AI-powered approach to Oz, which Indiewire’s David Ehrlich called “…less a celebration of the original than an Emerald City-sized version of Cecilia Giménez’s Jesus fresco.”
