Today's Hallucination HQPerplexity's New "Teammates" Are Always On, Always Helpful, and Won't Steal Your Lunch
Perplexity has launched AI Teammates — always-on agents that slot into your workspace, remember your projects, and take on roles like researcher or assistant. They integrate with existing Perplexity tools, which is convenient given that's where your data already lives. It's a direct shot at OpenAI and Anthropic's enterprise ambitions. Whether your actual colleagues feel threatened or quietly relieved is, frankly, between them and their therapists.
Source: The Verge
A Robot Cleaned Someone's Flat in San Francisco. It Only Took Twenty Minutes Per Drawer.
A humanoid robot cleaning service has launched in San Francisco, and an MIT Technology Review journalist let one loose in her apartment. The result: technically impressive, occasionally baffling, and deeply surreal to witness. The robot managed real surfaces in a real home — not a lab — which is a genuine milestone. It was also, by her account, quite slow. So: promising, in the way a toddler tidying up is promising. You applaud the effort and quietly redo it later.
Source: MIT Technology Review
Airbnb's AI Travel Agent Is Coming — Sometime Before the Summer After Next
Airbnb has announced an AI travel agent, due in the first half of 2027, that will help users plan trips, compare listings, manage bookings, and get support during their stay. It's an ambitious vision. It is also, to be clear, an announcement about a product that doesn't exist yet, releasing in a year that hasn't arrived, from a company whose current listings occasionally describe a "cosy studio" that sleeps six. We await developments with cautious optimism.
Source: TechCrunch
Anthropic Wants Claude to Know Exactly How Much You Spent on Takeaway Last Tuesday
Anthropic has connected Claude to users' bank and card accounts via Plaid, a platform that bridges your financial data to third-party apps. Ask Claude where your money went, and it'll tell you — in rather more detail than you may have wanted. The personal finance feature is genuinely useful for budgeting and tracking spending. It is also, one notes, a large language model with a complete view of your financial decisions. Hope it's not the judgemental type.
Source: The Verge
Dropbox Spends $350 Million on Infrastructure Nobody Outside Developer Circles Has Heard Of
Dropbox has acquired Tigris Data for $350 million to support DBX Agent Cloud, a new storage platform built for developers creating AI models and agents. Tigris provides the kind of high-performance, globally distributed object storage that makes AI infrastructure actually function — unglamorous, essential, and roughly as exciting to describe as it sounds. It's a smart, boring, necessary purchase. In an industry that names everything like a sci-fi film, "object storage" is almost refreshingly honest.
Source: TechCrunch
As always, the AI is learning fast. Whether it's learning the right things remains, as ever, the interesting question.
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