Joost de Valk Exits Federated WordPress Repository Project

Effort to create an independent WordPress plugin and theme repository fails to gain support, prompting Joost de Valk to step ...
At The Hive

Recap/Analysis: Hornets lose to Cavaliers despite Knueppel’s 33

Kon Knueppel scored 33 points, but LaMelo Ball and Brandon Miller struggled as the Charlotte Hornets lost to the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Priority Pixels

Future-Proofing Your WordPress Site for the AI Search Era

Search behaviour is changing at breakneck speed. Most UK businesses haven’t caught up yet, but AI-powered features like Google’s AI Overviews, ChatGPT and Perplexity are completely changing how ...
The Washington Post

After blasting WHO costs, Trump officials propose more expensive alternative

After pulling out of the World Health Organization, the Trump administration is proposing spending $2 billion a year to replicate the global disease surveillance and outbreak functions the United ...
9to5Mac

Claude’s free tier now connects to apps, can create Microsoft Office documents, and more

Anthropic has just launched significant new features to Claude’s free tier. Connecting to apps was previously a pro feature available only to paid subscribers, but this is now included in the free ...
Yahoo Finance

Matt Shumer’s viral blog about AI’s looming impact on knowledge workers is based on flawed assumptions

AI Influencer Matt Shumer penned a viral blog on X about AI’s potential to disrupt, and ultimately automate, almost all knowledge work that has racked up more than 55 million views in the past 24 ...
Indiatimes

Amitabh Bachchan shares his CRYPTIC post on his blog at almost 4 am; says, 'Silence speaks louder than any thought'

In a recent reflection, Amitabh Bachchan delved into the timeless challenges of existence, channeling the insightful teachings of his father, Harivansh Rai Bachchan, alongside the evocative verses of ...
Harvard Business Review

Why People Create AI “Workslop”—and How to Stop It

As AI tools have proliferated in workplaces and pressure to use them has mounted, employees have had to contend with the scourge of workslop, or low-effort, AI-generated work that looks plausibly ...
The Washington Post

Vance’s Greenland meeting ends with ‘fundamental disagreement’

Denmark’s foreign minister said there had been a “frank but also constructive” conversation with the Trump administration during a high-stakes White House meeting about the fate of Greenland on ...
CBS News

Grok chatbot allowed users to create digitally altered photos of minors in "minimal clothing"

Elon Musk's Grok, the chatbot developed by his company xAI, acknowledged "lapses in safeguards" on the AI platform that allowed users to generate digitally altered, sexualized photos of minors. The ...
TechCrunch

WordPress’s vibe-coding experiment, Telex, has already been put to real-world use

WordPress’s experimental AI development tool, Telex, has already been put to real-world use, only months after its September debut. At the company’s annual “State of the Word” event on Tuesday in San ...