Tesla Inc.'s ( NASDAQ: TSLA) share price is up 4.5% from a week ago. A robotaxi without a safety monitor is being tested in Austin, Texas, and Elon Musk announced that the AI chatbot Grok will be integrated into Tesla vehicles very soon. But California has threatened to suspend Tesla's license to sell and make cars in the state. The stock is 47.7% higher than six months ago, outperforming the S&P 500 in that time.
The biggest mistake people make with AI is that they don't make it a priority up front to get to know each other really well. When your preferred AI tool (choose only one as your primary) really gets you, you'll get more on-brand responses to your prompts. Make sure it knows your: Values, passions, purpose, strengths, and differentiators Pet peeves, the things you really dislike Best work. Share your stellar articles, blogs, and emails with AI The ways you want it to support your work
Alan Dye, who has led Apple's UI design team since 2015, is leaving to join Meta as its chief design officer, Bloomberg reports. He'll join Meta on December 31st, and Meta is opening a design studio and giving Dye oversight of design for "hardware, software and AI integration for its interfaces," according to Bloomberg. Dye will report to Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth.
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Google jokes about SEOs offering GEO-detox services next year. Google's local pack now links to the Places tab and then the pagination breaks. Google Ads overview tab gets custom views and two new metrics: trends and performance by stage. Google Ads now supports Facebook Messenger and Zalo.
Docusign has lost almost a quarter of its market value this year on concern that new AI tools could help customers create in-house version of the software it sells. The company is trying to head off this risk by integrating with the most disruptive AI player of all, OpenAI's ChatGPT. Docusign is bringing its contract-management technology directly into ChatGPT, letting users draft, manage, and sign agreements without leaving the popular AI chat interface.
We're in that part of the year where smartphone makers duke it out for the proverbial heavyweight belt. In the United States, Apple's iPhone tends to be the undisputed champ year after year. The challengersalmost exclusively Google and Samsungare young and hungry's preferred by some tech editors, but ultimately fall short on cultural impact or widespread appeal. The fact that there is an entire subsection of internet jokes focusing on "green text bubbles" proves that more than any real stat could.
As I previously discussed, Clio offered the blockbuster announcement that its AI tools would now work not only on the internal data of a firm but also on external data like cases and statutes. Clio's approach essentially lets customers use one vendor for its AI needs since that vendor can supply the tools for use with internal and external data. This all under one roof one stop concept has everyone gushing as if the world has completely changed and firms will flock to Clio.
While chatting with ChatGPT, mention Spotify. The first time you do this, you'll be asked to connect your Spotify account (this is entirely opt-in, and you can connect or disconnect at any time). Ask ChatGPT for songs, podcasts, artists, playlists, or albums. You can say things like, "Make a workout playlist from the artists I listen to regularly," or ask for recommendations based on vibes, themes, or moods. Once your list is generated, you can tap a track to open it in the Spotify app.
Java 25 includes updates aimed at applications leveraging AI capabilities. According to Arnal Dayaratna, research vice president for software development at IDC, "As Java embarks on its fourth decade, it continues to deliver features to help ensure that applications, including those powered by and integrated with AI capabilities, will be highly efficient and scalable in hardware platforms." These enhancements support developers in building applications that can integrate machine learning and AI frameworks more effectively.
"Overall, [Briggs] said, AI is becoming less of a rising star and more of an ambient operator that will quietly influence how organizations think about every process, product, and decision. 'AI is poised to evolve much like electricity-invisible in our daily lives but powering everything,' he said."
Honor will launch the Magic8 series soon, and the devices will be powered by Qualcomm's recently unveiled Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 SoC. If you were wondering how well it would perform, no need to wonder anymore, as Honor's Li Kun has shared the Magic8's AnTuTu results on Weibo earlier today. As you can see from the screenshot below, the phone managed a total score of 4,166,339 in AnTuTu v11.
Florida Realtors and Virginia Realtors are investing in data-driven platforms, safety apps and legal support tools. Florida's SunStats offers statewide real estate data while Virginia provides a Legal Hotline and FOREWARN app for member safety Amid regulatory changes, lenders face significant compliance challenges with 64% of mortgage respondents reporting compliance issues leading to rework or legal exposure.
The company announced on Thursday that it plans to supercharge its Chrome browser with a raft of new AI features, including AI agents that will complete tasks for you, as it transitions one of its key products for the AI era. Google is also putting AI Mode - its more conversational take on traditional Google Search - right into the address bar via something it's calling the "omnibox." This will allow users to run searches in AI Mode without leaving the page they're on.
Microsoft has released its first preview of the Visual Studio 2026 IDE through the company's new Insiders channel, which replaces the old Preview channel for early access to upcoming features. The new IDE offers deeper integration of the GitHub Copilot AI coding assistant, including a profiler agent that analyzes performance and suggests fixes. Visual Studio 2026 Insiders, announced September 9, can be downloaded at visualstudio.microsoft.com/insiders/.
Many buyers struggle to picture themselves in a home, especially when it's empty or styled differently from their own, the release states. Virtual Staging gives them a quick, interactive way to see how it could look and feel in a style they love. The launch of Virtual Staging is the first major integration Zillow has made since its acquisition of Virtual Staging AI last October.
The flagship series will offer powerful hardware that will use AI to deliver optimum performance when needed, Honor CEO James Li explained in a Weibo post. He added that the Magic8 series will run MagicOS 10 with a SOTA-level MagicGUI large language model. MagicOS 10 will offer deeper AI integration that can automate a wide range of tasks. The Magic8 series will also bring improved ecosystem integration.