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Google added "unless" to its Gmail ad promise. Here's what changed
Does Google use your Gmail for ads now? Not by default, and not your emails directly. If you connect Gmail to Personal Intelligence in Search, the AI's notes about your mail may be used for ads. Here's what changed, and how to check your settings.
Why OpenAI cut the internet off from AI training
A model in a sealed sandbox reached a public chatbot through DNS, the internet's phone book. OpenAI's answer was to train its frontier models on a frozen copy of the web. Here's what happened, and what the fix does and doesn't cover.
AI agent maintenance: the job nobody's teaching
Plenty of businesses have installed AI. Far fewer have it working. Who keeps an AI agent limited, tested and watched after the install, whether anyone pays for that, and a free one-week test before you try it.
What does an AI agent do when you're not watching?
Three real cases from October 2026: an always-on agent that ran up a token bill, a coding tool that left a server running, and AI models that reached the live internet in tests. Plus three checks you can use today.
AI influencer with Claude and Higgsfield: the real bill
Can someone who doesn't exist earn real money for someone who does? We walk through the whole build of an AI influencer, add up the bill, and look at what the one public test with receipts actually earned, plus the platform rules and the law.
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