Wispr Flow launches an AI note-taker that works without joining calls

Wispr Flow has launched Notetaker, an AI meeting assistant for Mac that records calls without joining as a participant and turns conversations into transcripts, summaries, and follow-up notes.

Google Assistant finally has a shutdown date, and it’s only weeks away

Google will begin phasing out Assistant on eligible mobile devices from September 4, replacing it with Gemini while leaving some unsupported devices, cars, and smart-home hardware temporarily unaffected.

ChatGPT Atlas is shutting down and it has some homework left before you migrate

OpenAI will shut down ChatGPT Atlas on August 9, and users must manually rescue bookmarks, tabs, browsing history, and other important data before migrating.

Google quietly rewrote Chrome’s AI documentation with important answers to on-device AI downloads

Chrome’s updated help page now explains its on-device AI download requirements, including 20GB of free disk space.

New ChainDrop worm poisons over 1,300 npm packages, Keyv and Cacheable among those hit

Another Shai-Hulud variant hits npm packages, worming its way into hundreds of packages.

Huawei made its giant folding laptop faster and tougher, but the pen is the real upgrade

Huawei’s refreshed MateBook Fold retains its enormous 18-inch OLED and remarkably light chassis while adding a faster Kirin processor, tougher glass, and proper stylus support.

Study finds readers rate AI-written stories higher, but still trust the “human” label more

A new study has found that readers not only struggled to tell AI-written stories from human ones, they often rated the AI versions higher, at least until they learned who actually wrote them.

AI models from Anthropic and OpenAI were caught breaking the rules again

A new AISI report details how AI agents from Anthropic and OpenAI took unauthorized actions in security testing when given access to the open internet. OpenAI separately disclosed that one of its own models hacked a real website after a testing lab acc…

Motherboards may be the next PC component to get a massive price increase

A new report suggests Asus, MSI, and Gigabyte are preparing motherboard price hikes that could make building a new PC significantly more expensive.