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Your AI just learned a new superpower from a one-line download. Nobody checked what else was in the box.
The hottest thing in AI is the "skill" — a tiny bundle that teaches your assistant a new trick. 40,000 are on offer, nobody vets them, and the booby trap is a sentence written in plain English. Here's the wonder, the trapdoor, and how to stay safe.
A humanoid robot that opens the door and unloads your dishwasher is now shipping to homes. To learn your house, a stranger in a VR headset looks out through its eyes.
The year the home robot stopped being a demo — and the quiet compromise most first buyers are signing without reading.
A single photo can now put your boss's face on a live video call. One finance worker watched his “colleagues” fill the screen — and wired away $25 million.
A free tool that hit #1 on GitHub lets anyone wear another person’s face in real time on a video call. The wonder, the $25M trapdoor, and the one-word fix that still beats it.
Your browser can now book your whole holiday while you sleep. A stranger can hide one sentence on a webpage and point it at your inbox instead.
A new kind of browser doesn't just show you pages — it clicks, fills forms, and checks out for you. It's one of the most useful things AI can do right now. It's also why a single line of invisible text can talk your browser into emptying your inbox. Here's the marvel, and the trapdoor.
A 6-month-old app just sold for $80 million. Its founder never wrote a line of code. Neither, it turns out, did the locks.
"Vibe coding" — building real software by just describing it in plain English — went from party trick to a $4.7B industry this year. The magic, and the trapdoor.
