AI assistants – The TechBriefs

AI companies want you to stop chatting with bots and start managing them

Claude Opus 4.6 and OpenAI Frontier pitch a future of supervising AI agents. On Thursday, Anthropic and OpenAI shipped products […]

OpenAI is hoppin’ mad about Anthropic’s new Super Bowl TV ads

On Wednesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Chief Marketing Officer Kate Rouch complained on X after rival AI lab Anthropic […]

Should AI chatbots have ads? Anthropic says no.

Different incentives, different futures In its blog post, Anthropic describes internal analysis it conducted that suggests many Claude conversations involve […]

New OpenAI tool renews fears that “AI slop” will overwhelm scientific research

New “Prism” workspace launches just as studies show AI-assisted papers are flooding journals with diminished quality. On Tuesday, OpenAI released […]

Users flock to open source Moltbot for always-on AI, despite major risks

An open source AI assistant called Moltbot (formerly “Clawdbot”) recently crossed 69,000 stars on GitHub after a month, making it […]

OpenAI to test ads in ChatGPT as it burns through billions

Financial pressures and a changing tune OpenAI’s advertising experiment reflects the enormous financial pressures facing the company. OpenAI does not […]