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If the AI world is already serving up a smorgasbord of eyebrow-raising escapades, just wait for the dessert course of even wilder innovations. We're your cheeky narrators, dishing out the highlights with a side of snark, because even robot revolutions deserve a good roast.

In this week's menu:

• 🏴‍☠️ AI Fiction Drama Gets Unexpected Plot Twist

• 🎨 AI Creative Combo: Adobe Adds Google Boost

• 🖥️ Chrome Gets Claude's Sidekick Treatment

• 🧠 Google's Virtual Concierge Learns New Tricks

• 🔍 + 4 handpicked tools for the curious

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Ethics

AI Fiction Drama Gets Unexpected Plot Twist

Anthropic, the Amazon-backed AI company, has quietly settled a lawsuit with authors who accused them of literary piracy to educate their AI systems. While the settlement details remain under wraps, it marks one of the first deals between creators and AI companies over these novel legal questions.

What's fascinating is that a judge had already ruled AI companies could train on books they'd purchased (apparently AI is just like "any reader who wants to be a writer"). However, Anthropic still faced trial for allegedly downloading seven million books first and buying copies later – a classic "steal now, pay later" approach that wouldn't fly with your local bookstore.

The settlement spares Anthropic from potentially massive damages and public scrutiny, while giving authors some compensation for their involuntary AI tutoring services.

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AI Creative Combo: Adobe Adds Google Boost

Adobe is playing matchmaker between Gemini 2.5 Flash Image and its Firefly/Express platforms in what might be the AI equivalent of a power couple. This digital dream team promises to supercharge your creative workflow with faster image generation, animation, and asset variations.

It's like Adobe admitting "our AI is good, but it could be better" by bringing Google's brain to the party. The company insists this isn't a case of AI promiscuity—they're still committed to not training models on your content.

Free users get 20 generations to test the waters, while paying customers get unlimited access for a limited time. It's Adobe's way of saying "try before you commit to this relationship.

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Chrome Gets Claude's Sidekick Treatment

Anthropic has invited a select group of its premium subscribers to test Claude for Chrome, a browser-based AI agent that lives in a sidecar window while you surf. For $100-200 monthly, these digital elites can now have Claude witness their questionable search history while supposedly helping with tasks.

The browser wars have gone full AI, with Perplexity, OpenAI, and Google all rushing to add intelligent assistants to your browsing experience. It's like the new toolbar era, except these extensions actually do something besides bombard you with ads.

Anthropic acknowledges there are safety risks (shocking!), noting they've reduced prompt injection attack success from 23.6% to 11.2%. So your AI helper is only slightly vulnerable to being hijacked by malicious websites. Progress!

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Google's Virtual Concierge Learns New Tricks

OpenAI just launched "Project-only memory" for ChatGPT, essentially giving your AI conversations separate mental compartments. Rather than having your vegetarian restaurant preferences from that Florida Keys trip planning bleeding into your work conversations, ChatGPT can now keep memories isolated within specific projects.

Think of it as creating little islands of context – what happens in your kayaking trip project stays there. 

The feature is available now on web and Windows, with mobile versions coming soon. To activate it, just create a new project, click "More options," and switch Memory from "Default" to "Project-only."

For anyone tired of ChatGPT's context confusion or the hassle of constantly reminding it about project details, this compartmentalized memory approach could seriously streamline your AI workflow.

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