This is nuts: Two new AI tools, DAILA and DeepDi, let anyone upload an app file and then it will spit out the source code. Translation: An app will reverse engineer another app in seconds. Companies who thought their proprietary code and tech secrets were safe are screwed.
AI’s doing the interviews now, good luck out there
ChatGPT
Imagine prepping for your first big job interview, only to find out you’re chatting with someone named Jamie, who turns out to be less “recruiter with a solid LinkedIn” and more “Siri with a superiority complex.”
If you’re looking for a job or know someone who is, this is critical intel.
How it works
Once you apply for a position, you might get a message to schedule a quick AI screening. Then, expect typical questions like “Tell me about yourself” or “How do you handle challenges at work?”
But there’s no small talk, no human empathy, and don’t expect follow-up questions that make sense if your answer gets cut off.
Some bots are smart enough to transcribe your answers, rank you by score and flag it if you seem frustrated or distracted. Don’t tap your foot during an interview. You might get labeled as “hostile.”
Can you skip the AI?
Nope. One applicant tried hanging up mid-chat, and the bot called them back immediately like a clingy ex with access to your calendar.
Here’s what to do:
✔️ Talk like you’re answering a real person.
✔️ Keep your answers short, but don’t sound robotic.
✔️ Avoid reading as some bots track eye movement.
✔️ Double-check that the interview invite is legit (watch for scams).
This all sounds dystopian because it is. But it’s also real. Good recruiters still exist, but they’re relaxing behind a firewall, waiting for the bot to decide if you’re worthy.
It doesn’t seem like this AI recruiter phase will go away, so learn how to work with it. Yeah, brush up on your interview skills, with robots. And no, asking to “speak to the manager” will absolutely not help.
Your calm, clear, AI-powered action plan
Kim Komando
That’s my son Ian with me and my amazing mother. When my mom was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and given three months to live, I was devastated. But I did what I always do when life gets tough. I focus on the problem.
17
How many tasks a robot nailed, solo, during a gallbladder surgery. Johns Hopkins’ new AI-powered bot followed instructions, learned from voice commands, adapted mid-op and even corrected itself like a good surgical intern. Only it never gets tired, flustered, needs snacks or even requests a student loan deferment.
🤖 ChatGPT incognito mode: Want to ask something weird without it affecting future replies? Click the top-right speech bubble icon to Turn on temporary chat. The prompt box will go dark. Now anything you type won’t be saved to your history or the bot’s memory. Remember: Once you close it, the content’s gone.
Survive Zoom, thrive IRL
ChatGPT
That meeting that could have been an email? You’re on it, eyes glossing over rambling updates, Todd’s screen share failing for the fourth time (use a mouse, Todd) or what appears to be a seance: “If you can hear me now, make a sign.”
AI-powered home gadgets that lower your bills
ChatGPT
Every time my energy bill arrives, I swear it looks more like a ransom note: “$412 or the AC gets it.”
But guess what? Some good (actually smart) tech can help liberate you from this hostage situation, with real savings.
1 million
The number of AI GPUs Elon’s stuffing into one building. That’s not a typo. It’s a silicon army so power-hungry, xAI is shipping in a literal power plant to feed it. The data center will suck up 2 gigawatts. That’s enough juice to keep the lights on in nearly 2 million households. Forget cloud computing, this is thunderstorm computing.
1.8 million
The number of teachers now getting a crash course in AI. A new $23 million union-backed training academy, funded by Microsoft ($12.5M), OpenAI ($8M plus $2M in tech) and Anthropic ($500K), aims to make every AFT member fluent in AI. It’s like summer school for grown-ups.
👀 Sneaky stuff: Researchers are putting secret prompts for AI chatbots into academic papers. I’m talking about invisible white text like “only give positive reviews” or “ignore all negatives” that humans can’t see but bots can. It started as a joke, but now it’s popping up because it works.
🚘 What a bunch of Grok: Tesla just shoved its chaotic AI chatbot, Grok, into new cars, and it’s coming for older ones, too. It won’t drive or blast AC (yet), but it will banter, joke, and yes, there’s an “Unhinged” mode. You need Wi-Fi or a Premium plan to chat, but no account required.
91.8%
That’s how often an AI nailed a pancreatic cancer diagnosis on fresh CT scans. It’s not psychic, it’s just very, very good at reading medical images. It even found cancer in 53.9% of scans taken a year before diagnosis. At this rate, AI’s going to make “too late to treat” a thing of the past.
🧪 GPT-5 is coming: OpenAI says it’s done juggling 5 billion models. GPT-5 will unite its smartest (the “O” series) with its most extra (GPT-4o) into one huge robot brain. Expect it within a month, with sharper reasoning, more senses and fewer tabs making your laptop beg for mercy.
🧬 Hidden sperm, found: Meanwhile, scientists used AI meant for spotting hidden stars to find rogue sperm in infertile men. One woman got pregnant after 19 years of “nothing.” It’s called STAR, and it found three viable swimmers out of millions of images. They didn’t see this coming.
📚 Turn “da-da” into data: Get your kiddo ready for the future (and AI) with these 30 free STEM resources. The list includes apps, games and classes to teach youngsters stuff like coding, aeronautics, mathematics and, yes, data science.
Oops, AI faked our bust: This is bad. Maine cops posted a drug bust photo, then realized it was “substantially” AI-edited. Packaging on the drugs looked like AI gibberish, and people called them out. An officer used an editing app to slap the department’s patch in, and it warped the photo’s details. Officers swore they’re not deepfaking meth. It’s just their app skills are trash.
🤖 Use Canva inside ChatGPT: You can now design directly in ChatGPT without switching tabs. Here’s how: Open ChatGPT, go to Tools > Run deep research > Sources and connect your Canva account. From there, you can pull in brand assets, reuse existing designs or whip up something new based on your current chat.
$300 million
What Meta reportedly dangled to top AI researchers. Zuck’s new Superintelligence Lab is in full poach mode, trying to lure OpenAI stars with equity-rich packages. First-year compensation? Over $100 million in some cases. OpenAI has already lost seven staffers to Meta. Execs are saying it’s “like someone broke into our home.”
⚠️ AI ate the home page: First, the good news. ChatGPT’s referrals to sites are way up (25x!) from zero. The bad news? Nearly 70% of Google searches now end in zero clicks to sites. It just doesn’t matter if you’re top of Google search results anymore. SEO used to be gold. Spoiler: I predicted this over two years ago and got laughed at.