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Developers are telling their AI to "take a breath" and "lock in" before retrying a broken prompt, and it's not pure superstition. DeepMind found the phrase measurably improved accuracy on math problems. The model isn't calming down. It's being nudged toward more careful language patterns.
Razer's Project Ava, an anime hologram named Kira, lives on a USB tube on your desk, watches you through a camera, and comments on your outfit while coaching your games. It runs on xAI's Grok (creepy!). The privacy protection is a physical shutter you have to close yourself, not a default setting. Still creepy!
Dyson's $499 CameraJet toothbrush has a built-in camera that spots gaps between your teeth 28 times a second and fires a precision water jet at each one. It took 661 engineers, six years, 38 patents, and 16 million lines of code. That's just creepy!
ChatGPT quietly picked up a goblin habit, dragging goblins, gremlins, and trolls into unrelated answers. A retired "Nerdy" personality was 2.5% of usage but caused two-thirds of the goblin mentions. OpenAI had to write code just to ban the word.
Texas's App Store Accountability Act took effect June 4, 2026 after the Supreme Court allowed enforcement. It requires Apple and Google to verify age and get parental consent before a minor downloads any app or makes an in-app purchase, not just games. Utah and Louisiana have similar laws, with more states considering it.
State-funded pilots of ElliQ report 94 to 97% of lonely seniors felt better using it. But a Nature Human Behaviour study published this week found intense AI companion use linked to worse well-being in people with small offline social networks. The difference seems to be whether it supplements human contact or replaces it.
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