WD
How to Use Google Chrome’s New AI-Powered ‘Skills’
got another generative AI feature: Skills. Skills are repeatable AI prompts you can run in Chrome with a keyboard shortcut.
Global AI Picks
Curated AI coverage from TechCrunch, MIT Technology Review, WIRED and other top global tech media. Please cite this site when republishing.
TechCrunch
MIT Tech Review
VentureBeat
WIRED
AI News
TC
Google adds AI Skills to Chrome to help you save favorite workflows
Google is adding more AI capabilities to its Chrome web browser, the company announced on Tuesday. It’s introducing a new feature called Skills, which will allow users to save and reuse their favorite AI prompts that can run across different web pages without having to type them in again. The featur
ARS
Google introduces "Skills" in Chrome to make Gemini prompts instantly reusable
Chrome is the most popular browser in the world, and the competition is not even close. So the browser is a key part of Google’s efforts to get everyone using its AI tools.
TC
Max Hodak’s Science Corp. is preparing to place its first sensor in a human brain
Science Corporation, the startup from former Neuralink president and co-founder Max Hodak, has enlisted a top neurobiologist to lead the first U.S. human trials for its biohybrid brain-computer interface. Dr.
MIT
Redefining the future of software engineering
SponsoredIn partnership withSoftServe Software engineering has experienced two seismic shifts this century. First was the rise of the open source movement, which gradually made code accessible to developers and engineers everywhere.
TC
Anthropic co-founder confirms the company briefed the Trump administration on Mythos
Jack Clark, one of Anthropic’s co-founders who also serves as Head of Public Benefit for Anthropic PBC, confirmed that the AI company had briefed the Trump administration about its new Mythos model.
ARS
UK gov's Mythos AI tests help separate cybersecurity threat from hype
Last week, Anthropic announced it was restricting the initial release of its Mythos Preview model to “a limited group of critical industry partners,” giving them time to prepare for a model that it said is “strikingly capable at computer security tasks.” Now, the UK government’s AI Security Institut
ARS
Americans ask AI for health care. Hospitals think the answer is more chatbots.
With many Americans turning to large language models for health advice, health systems around the country are eyeing and even rolling out their own branded chatbots in an attempt to harness this already popular tool and steer more people to their services.
ARS
Ukraine’s military robot surge aims to offset drone risks to humans
Ukrainian ground robots and drones have demonstrated how to overcome a Russian military position by themselves while forcing the surrender of Russian soldiers, claimed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
TC
Anthropic’s rise is giving some OpenAI investors second thoughts
OpenAI’s $852 billion valuation is facing skepticism from some of its own investors as the company scrambles to reorient itself around enterprise customers and fend off Anthropic, according to the Financial Times. Anthropic’s annualized revenue jumped from $9 billion at the end of 2025 to $30 billio
MIT
Building trust in the AI era with privacy-led UX
SponsoredIn partnership withUsercentrics The practice of privacy-led user experience (UX) is a design philosophy that treats transparency around data collection and usage as an integral part of the customer relationship.
MIT
No one’s sure if synthetic mirror life will kill us all
For four days in February 2019, some 30 synthetic biologists and ethicists hunkered down at a conference center in Northern Virginia to brainstorm high-risk, cutting-edge, irresistibly exciting ideas that the National Science Foundation should fund.
AIN
The US-China AI gap closed. The responsible AI gap didn’t
The assumption that the US holds a durable lead in AI model performance is not well-supported by the data, and that is just one of the uncomfortable findings in Stanford University’s 2026 AI Index Report, published this week.The report, produced by Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centred Artificial I
WD
The Deepfake Nudes Crisis in Schools Is Much Worse Than You Thought
with a photo downloaded from social media.Around the world, teenage boys are saving Instagram and Snapchat images of girls they know from school and using harmful “nudify” apps to create fake nude photos or videos of them.
WD
AI Slop Is Making the Internet Fake-Happy
a pulse and a smartphone, it’s obvious that the internet has an AI slop problem. The issue has grown more severe since ChatGPT launched in 2022, with some social platforms flooded with AI-generated writing.
AIN
Drones get smarter for large farm holdings
Singapore-based DroneDash Technologies and GEODNET have formed a joint venture to be called GEODASH Aerosystems, to build an agricultural spraying drone for large industrial farms.
MIT
Cyberscammers are bypassing banks’ security with illicit tools sold on Telegram
From inside a money-laundering center in Cambodia, an employee opens a popular Vietnamese banking app on his phone.
MIT
The Download: NASA’s nuclear spacecraft and unveiling our AI 10
This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. NASA is building the first nuclear reactor-powered interplanetary spacecraft.
TC
This startup is betting tokenmaxxing will create the next compute giant
“Give me tokens. Just give me tokens. I want them fast. I want them cheap. I want them now.” That’s the mantra for developers building software on generative AI models, or at least what Parasail CEO Mike Henry hears.
TC
Gitar, a startup that uses agents to secure code, emerges from stealth with $9 million
With the advent of “vibe coding,” AI agents have unleashed a deluge of code onto companies that many are now struggling to manage.