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Sen. Warren wants to know what Google Gemini’s built-in checkout means for user privacy

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is pressing Google for more information about its plans to build a checkout feature into its Gemini AI chatbot. In a letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Warren expresses concerns that the integration could allow Google and retailers “to exploit sensitive user data” or “manipulate consumers into spending more and paying

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Is ChatGPT not working for you? Here’s how you can try to fix it (Update: Outage)

Credit: Mahmoud Itani / Android Authority Update, February 3, 2026 (03:54 PM ET): OpenAI reports that ChatGPT is currently experiencing a service disruption. DownDetector also shows a recent spike of outage reports. So far, we haven’t seen any official details confirming the nature of the outage or offering a timetable towards resolution. We’ll update this

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Is ChatGPT not working for you? Here’s how you can try to fix it (Update: Outage)

Credit: Mahmoud Itani / Android Authority Update, February 3, 2026 (03:54 PM ET): OpenAI reports that ChatGPT is currently experiencing a service disruption. DownDetector also shows a recent spike of outage reports. So far, we haven’t seen any official details confirming the nature of the outage or offering a timetable towards resolution. We’ll update this

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‘Vibe Coding Kills Open Source’

Four economists across Central European University, Bielefeld University and the Kiel Institute have built a general equilibrium model of the open-source software ecosystem and concluded that vibe coding — the increasingly common practice of letting AI agents select, assemble and modify packages on a developer’s behalf — erodes the very funding mechanism that keeps open-source

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‘Vibe Coding Kills Open Source’

Four economists across Central European University, Bielefeld University and the Kiel Institute have built a general equilibrium model of the open-source software ecosystem and concluded that vibe coding — the increasingly common practice of letting AI agents select, assemble and modify packages on a developer’s behalf — erodes the very funding mechanism that keeps open-source

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