AI News Today

A crazy packed edition of Last Week in AI! Plus some small updates.

How can you quantify creativity?

Google adds Gemini AI-powered ‘auto browse’ to Chrome, Users flock to open source Moltbot for always-on AI, Qwen3-Max-Thinking debuts, and more!

China’s Moonshot releases a new open source model Kimi K2.5 and a coding agent, Google Brings Genie 3’s Interactive World-Building Prototype to AI Ultra Subscribers, and more!

Plus, a story about agents corrupting other agents

OpenAI to test ads in ChatGPT as it burns through billions, The Drama at Thinking Machines, STEM: Scaling Transformers with Embedding Modules

Thriving in a world of agents

Is superintelligence a phase change or a gradual shift?

OpenAI to test ads in ChatGPT as it burns through billions, Sequoia to invest in Anthropic, Zhipu AI breaks US chip reliance, The Drama at Thinking Machines Is Riveting Silicon Valley

Plus: Corrupting AI systems with a poison fountain

With the right tools, AI can accomplish impressive things

And why Nano Banana Pro is such a big deal

From chatbots to agents

As AI advice becomes more important, we are going to need to get better at assessing it

What AI to use in late 2025

The race between human-centered work and infinite PowerPoints

Verifying magic on the jagged frontier

From GPT-5 to nano banana: everyone is getting access to powerful AI

Putting the AI in Charge

Does process matter? We are about to find out.

AI can help, or hurt, our thinking

Which AIs to use, and how to use them