Slack has more than 2,600 apps in its app directory. Plenty of them are narrowly useful: for example, Slack's Vercel app is great if you're hosting web development projects, but it doesn't have any appeal outside of that. But most businesses using Slack have the same broad needs: communication, team building, project management, automation, onboarding, and getting work done without lots of…
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As we're gearing up for back-to-school season, Google is rolling out a new dedicated student hub in Gemini. It's a one-stop repository for collecting research in a study notebook, creating flashcards, taking practice quizzes, and more. Google is also enhancing its study notebooks with support for graphs and images. It can even add test dates
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Here’s how you can use Google Search tools to study for classes and standardized tests.
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The NSA, CISA, and FBI say attackers are using AI to build exploit scripts targeting Siemens S7 controllers, drastically cutting the time and skill needed to attack industrial control systems. Critical U.S. sectors like energy, water, and manufacturing are affected.
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Meta is launching a new Mac app dedicated to its AI chatbot. In an announcement on Wednesday, Meta says you can share your window with its AI chatbot, which can provide suggestions, answer questions, or create content based on what's on your screen. Meta AI on the Mac also supports dictation across all apps. The
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Anthropic had its Claude models design small proteins on their own that dock onto target structures in the body, a key step in early drug development. The hit rate reached up to 35 percent, far above the industry average of 10 to 15 percent. Claude only steered existing specialized tools, and an independent review is still pending.
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ChatGPT isn't really a chatbot anymore. Now, the focus is on agents, which is why the ChatGPT app suddenly looks very different. It's been rebuilt around a feature called ChatGPT Work. ChatGPT Work is basically Codex, OpenAI's coding tool, for regular people. It uses the same agentic foundation but in a friendlier package. You don't have to worry about git, the terminal, or actual code—unless…
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Artificial Analysis has released the "Search Index," a benchmark that rates search API providers for AI agents on quality, cost, and speed. Of seven providers tested with GPT-5.6 Luna, Parallel, Exa, and Firecrawl scored highest.
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Starting today, AI chats in Firefox's Smart Window AI browsing mode can pull from current web info and show source links in chat responses through a partnership with Exa. Smart Window can also now automatically suggest tab groups and show visual previews of pages you previously visited when you search your browsing history using natural
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OpenAI and CodeAI are partnering to help students build AI literacy, think critically about AI, and develop the skills to use and shape it responsibly.
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Large language models can extract, classify, summarize, and write for us. They just can't execute those tasks on their own. Or not without some seriously cumbersome technical upkeep, anyway. For AI to do something in an app you use, a developer has to build a complex integration. Or, much preferred these days, you can fast-track the process with the Model Context Protocol (MCP). It's a translator…
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NVIDIA teams use ChatGPT Work to reduce manual tasks, connect fast-moving signals, and scale successful workflows globally.
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DeepSeek Harness v0.1 is an MIT-licensed agent harness where every capability is a Cordis plugin. Four runtime modes, append-only session logs, and provider-agnostic model routing.
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AI is reshaping cybersecurity for attackers and defenders alike. Learn how OpenAI is strengthening its defenses and what security teams can do now.
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OpenAI funds 14 independent projects exploring new AI policy ideas to expand economic opportunity and strengthen societal resilience in the Intelligence Age.
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