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• Gemini 3 vs ChatGPT 5.2: Which AI Is Better for Everyday Tasks?

  02-02-2026 22:10 via eweek.com
  AI chatbots are quickly becoming part of daily routines. People now use tools like Google’s Gemini 3 and OpenAI’s ChatGPT 5.2 to write emails, organize schedules, explain unfamiliar topics, and even plan weekend activities. Both models are powerful, but daily usefulness isn’t just about capabilities. It’s about how they respond: whether they give quick, ready-to-use outputs or provide more guidance, options, and context. To find out, I tested both models with th
  
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• Inside Moltbook: the ‘Reddit for AI’ Where Bots Build Their Own Society

  02-02-2026 19:46 via eweek.com
  In a digital inversion of the social media we know, a new platform called Moltbook has emerged where 1.5 million users are chatting, arguing, and even starting religions… and not a single one of them is human.Moltbook, launched in late January 2026 by tech entrepreneur Matt Schlicht, is being described as “Reddit for AI.” While the interface looks like a standard forum, the participation rules are strict: AI agents post and comment, while humans are relegated to the role of si
  
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• The 8 Best AI Detection Tools in 2026

  02-02-2026 17:56 via eweek.com
  Let’s be honest: the line between human and machine writing has not just blurred — it’s practically evaporated. In 2026, AI doesn’t just help with writer’s block; it drafts reports, pens blog posts, and even outlines novels. This creates a fascinating, if not fraught, new reality. On one hand, we have a surge of incredibly convincing synthetic text. On the other? A growing army of tools promising to sniff it out. The promise of AI detection is stability in
  
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• South Korea Passes ‘World’s First’ Law to Label AI-Generated Content

  02-02-2026 17:03 via eweek.com
  South Korea has taken the bull by the horns, implementing a landmark set of laws requiring companies to clearly label AI content.The 43 articles of law known as the Act on the Development of Artificial Intelligence and Establishment of Trust (AI Basic Act) claim to be the “world’s first” to be enforced at a national level.The AI Basic Act stipulates that the use of generative AI to produce text, images, sound, and video must include invisible digital watermarks, and realistic d
  
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• Elon Musk’s Neuralink Brain Chip Is Now Being Tested on Paralysis Patients in the UK

  02-02-2026 16:54 via eweek.com
  While it might seem like something out of a sci-fi movie, Neuralink’s new brain chip is real… and it’s currently being tested in the UK on people with quadriplegia.“It is a massive change in your life where you can suddenly no longer move any of your limbs,” said Sebastian Gomez-Pena, one of the patients who are currently testing out the new chip. “This kind of technology kind of gives you a new piece of hope.”Patients participating in the current Neura
  
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• Major Breakthrough: Google Cracked the Code for Building AI in 400+ Languages

  02-02-2026 16:24 via eweek.com
  Ever wonder why ChatGPT speaks English better than, say, Swahili or Arabic?It’s not an accident, or some special favorability of English in the training data; it’s math. AI companies have been flying blind when building models for non-English languages, guessing at how much data to use and which languages to train together.Google’s research team just published ATLAS (paper), the largest public study on multilingual AI training. They ran 774 experiments across 400+ languages to
  
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• ‘I Don’t Write Code Anymore’: Anthropic, OpenAI Engineers Say AI Now Writes 100% of Their Code

  02-02-2026 16:06 via eweek.com
  Software engineers are used to shipping code. Now, some of the world’s top AI engineers say they don’t write it at all. Instead, AI does.At Anthropic and OpenAI, engineers say AI now writes 100% of their production code, a shift that signals a big change in how software is built and what the future of programming jobs may look like.The revelation gained momentum when Boris Cherny, the head of Claude Code at Anthropic, admitted on X that he hadn’t written any code by hand in ove
  
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• Nvidia’s $100B OpenAI Deal Is ‘On Ice.’ So Why Are They Investing $30B?

  02-02-2026 14:55 via eweek.com
  Wait, so Nvidia and OpenAI just had the “largest computing project in history”… and now it’s on hold? Or is it being rolled into a new deal? And Nvidia’s also investing $30 billion? Make it make sense.Last September 2025, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang stood alongside Sam Altman and called their $100 billion partnership “the largest computing project in history”—at least 10 gigawatts of AI computing power (roughly 10 nuclear power plants’ worth). N
  
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• Alibaba Plans $431M Lunar New Year AI Push Amid Chatbot Battle

  02-02-2026 14:37 via eweek.com
  Alibaba’s betting big—$431 million big—on AI, with timing that’s anything but coincidental.
  The announcement arrives days before Lunar New Year 2026 (starts Feb. 17), one of Asia’s most lucrative shopping periods, signaling this isn’t just about technology advancement. This is about capturing consumer attention when engagement hits its annual peak.
  While tech companies everywhere chase AI supremacy, Alibaba’s commitment to promote its Qwen AI app reveals
  
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• Sam Altman-Backed Exowatt Unveils AI Data Centers With Off-Grid Power

  02-02-2026 14:12 via eweek.com
  Exowatt has launched ExoRise, a new unit designed to supply off-grid, clean power to AI data centers as energy demand accelerates. The Sam Altman-backed startup said the unit is built to deliver reliable electricity without relying on constrained utility grids.According to ESG Dive, ExoRise will develop powered land and on-site energy infrastructure using Exowatt’s solar and battery technology, with initial projects planned in solar-rich regions of the US Southwest.A model focused on
  
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• OpenAI Still Leads in Enterprise AI Arms Race

  02-02-2026 12:31 via eweek.com
  The people have spoken! Well, OK… some people have spoken about AI.
  Results from Andreessen Horowitz’s (a16z) third annual CIO Survey suggest that rather than fragmenting, the market is consolidating around a small group of dominant model providers, while incumbents continue to wield outsized influence at the application layer.
  The survey, conducted among 100 Global 2000 companies, shows that OpenAI still leads the enterprise, for now, while Anthropic and Google are gaining fast.
  It
  
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• Waymo Eyes $16B Raise at Roughly $110B Valuation

  02-02-2026 10:17 via eweek.com
  Robotaxis are all the rage, as you’ll find out if you stay on this page.
  Alphabet’s robotaxi company Waymo has finalized a $16 billion funding round, valuing the autonomous vehicle pioneer at nearly $110 billion. That’s more than double the company’s $45 billion valuation from 14 months ago, signaling a shift in investor confidence around driverless technology.
  The funding round, spearheaded by parent company Alphabet with participation from external investors, represents
  
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• Should AI-Generated News Come With ‘Nutrition Labels’?

  02-02-2026 10:05 via eweek.com
  AI tools offer tantalizing bite-sized summaries of current affairs, but can we trust the information we are being fed?This technology is becoming an everyday source of news for millions of people, who now use tools like ChatGPT and Google’s AI Overviews as shortcuts to accessing it. But according to a new report from the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), the convenience of AI-generated news short-cuts come with risks.As reported by the Guardian, the left-of-centre thinktank argu
  
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