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Tech columnist for @nytimes / legacy blue check / Putting out fires and starting new ones every week / See also @bxchen@mstdn.social
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I Tested a Popular A.I. Slop Detector. It Felt Empowering.

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By Brian Chen Verified
| The New York Times Verified
I Tested a Popular A.I. Slop Detector. It Felt Empowering. Pangram excels at distinguishing chatbot-generated words from human writing. But it’s not reliable for spotting artificial images. Credit...Sisi Yu Brian X. Chen is The Times’s lead consumer technology writer and the author of Tech Fix, a column about the social implications of the tech we use. Aug. 13, 2026, 5:04 a.m. ET Recently, as I was scrolling through my phone, I realized I was suffering from a new kind of fatigue: slop-induced burnout.
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Apple’s Siri Got an AI Brain transplant. Try these 5 prompts to get acclimated

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By Brian Chen Verified
| The Olympian Verified
Apple's beleaguered virtual assistant, Siri, got an upgrade, transforming it into a modern chatbot. It's imperfect but worth trying. For the last 15 years, talking to Siri, Apple’s virtual assistant on iPhones, felt profoundly uncool. Though it performed a few basic tasks, like adding calendar appointments and setting timers, Siri was so subpar that asking it for help was often counterproductive.
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Apple’s Siri Got an AI Brain transplant. Try these 5 prompts to get acclimated

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| Flipboard
Technology 10 hours ago SpaceXAI's Grok Bot turns agents into persistent digital coworkers that can operate your apps for $120-per-month VentureBeat - Carl Franzen • 10h SpaceXAI, the division of SpaceX formerly known as xAI, is launching an early beta version of Grok Bot, a new agent designed to move AI assistants beyond answering prompts and toward continuously executing work across the software employees already use. The central idea is straightforward: instead …
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