AI shopping gets complicated at checkout

AI Impact tracks Wall Street’s AI oversight, DXC’s agent build, AI shopping checkout and India’s place in the AI trade.
The Next Web

Meta paid contractors to pose as teens and probe rival AI chatbots

Hundreds of contractors on a Meta project posed as teenagers to test how ChatGPT, Gemini and Character.AI handle suicide, drugs and sex, WIRED found.

OpenAI's updated GPT-5.5 Instant is better at shopping, complex constraints, and understanding user intent — and it's already in the API

OpenAI is moving away from models that require heavy hand-holding and toward systems that can better infer the user’s goal, ...
Decrypt

This AI Agent Survived 6,000 Hack Attempts—Here’s How

Developer Fernando Irarrázaval's AI agent experiment drew over 6,000 hack attempts from more than 2,000 attackers. No one ...
Nature

Genetic testing articles from across Nature Portfolio

Genetic testing involves the detection of specific alleles, mutations, genotypes or karyotypes that are associated with heritable traits, diseases or predispositions to disease for the individual or ...

Like asking a kid to take a math test without a calculator: Google will let candidates use AI in interviews — what this means for job candidates now

"Interviews just need to get with the times.” ...
NPR

Books

June 23, 2026 • Facts by day, fiction by night! At the end of a long day in the newsroom, many of our journalists head home and escape into novels of all types.