Author: Geek Planet

Clawdbot, the AI agent that took the tech world by surprise, became one of the fastest-climbing projects on GitHub because it promised something unusual. Instead of just chatting, Clawdbot can interact with your files, send messages, schedule calendar events, and automate tasks on your own computer, all without sending your data off to a big server. Its ability to act on behalf of users makes it feel like a personal AI helper. This contributed to its popularity and helped it spread rapidly among developers and curious users alike. The project was recently renamed from Clawdbot to Moltbot after Anthropic objected…

This story was first published by Digiday sibling Glossy Procter & Gamble on Tuesday announced a 2% growth in net sales for the fourth quarter of 2025. But the conglomerate’s forecast remains modest as uncertain tariffs and consumer sentiment threaten sales growth in the U.S., its largest market. The owner of beauty and personal care brands like Olay and Gillette also shared full-year results for fiscal year 2025, with net sales remaining flat at $84.3 billion. “We’re pleased with the performance P&G people delivered last fiscal year in the face of a very dynamic, difficult and volatile environment,” said outgoing…

Unilever’s been building a generative AI assembly line for its digital creative. The system might offer a model for heavyweight brand peers, but could also cause a headache for creative agencies.For the last year the CPG giant has been working with marketing services firm The Brandtech Group to build up its Beauty AI Studio: a bespoke, in-house system inside its beauty and wellbeing business. Now in place across 18 different markets (the U.S. and U.K. among them), the studio is being used to make assets for paid social, programmatic display inventory and e-commerce usage across brands including Dove Intensive Repair,…

A new study suggests an AI emotional connection can feel stronger than human conversation, if the chat is built to get personal fast. In structured online exchanges, people sometimes reported feeling closer to AI-written responses than to responses written by real humans. Researchers at the Universities of Freiburg and Heidelberg ran two double-blind randomized studies with 492 participants, using a 15-minute text version of the Fast Friends Procedure, a format designed to speed up bonding with a stranger. The twist is perception. The strongest effect showed up when the AI was presented as human, and it faded when people believed…

Despite the hype around Android 17 Beta 1’s arrival, Google has backtracked on the beta release, citing some last-minute changes. However, that doesn’t mean that the Android 17 update isn’t coming after all. In fact, Google has clarified that the new beta version is “coming soon.” With the beta right around the corner, platform stability expected in March, and the stable version coming out in or around June 2026, you might want to know whether your Pixel phone supports Android 17. Full list of supported Pixel devices Below is the list of all Pixel phones that support the Android 17…

Anthropic is testing a new Tasks feature inside Claude’s iOS app, and it looks like a move toward agentic work runs on iPhone, as spotted by TestingCatalog News. A newer build shows a Tasks entry in the app navigation plus a Tasks hub where you can create and manage repeatable jobs. If it ships as shown, this would push Claude closer to Cowork-style automation on mobile. You set something up once, then rerun it when you need the same outcome again. What’s still missing is the timeline. The surfaced UI does not include a public rollout date, and it doesn’t…

Netflix’s advertising business definitively took flight in the first half of 2025. But despite client demand, buyers say a lack of measurement options and shallow links with key industry partners stand in the way of further investment.The streamer’s second-quarter results, released July 17, showed a 16 percent increase in revenue. Including both subscriber and advertising income, its quarterly revenue was $11.1 billion. The company’s ad tech stack is operational in the 12 countries it offers advertising, and it’s doubled ad revenue since the second quarter of last year, according to chief financial officer Spencer Neumann. He didn’t offer a more…

DeepSeek looks like it’s preparing to move beyond chat and into search, right as AI starts to reshape how people look up information. Multiple job postings this month suggest the Chinese startup is building DeepSeek AI search, a product aimed at multilingual queries and newer kinds of inputs, Bloomberg reports. The work described in the ads points to a multimodal engine, one that can take text, images, and audio. That’s a direct fit for phone-first searching, where a screenshot, photo, or voice clip is often the real query. The job posts spell out the build The roles call for specialists…

American Eagle has joined the increasingly long list of brands that somehow didn’t see it coming. Like Bud Light, Target and Jaguar Land Rover before it, the retailer stepped into the culture wars with the kind of casual confidence that suggests senior marketers are still underestimating how combustible “just another campaign” can be. In this case, it was an ad featuring a white, blue-eyed blond film star Sydney Sweeney praising the culture of “good jeans” — a line that might’ve passed without notice a decade ago, now reads more like a Rorscharch test for who brands think they’re speaking to.  It…

If you use Copilot on web or in its apps, these Copilot new features focus on cutting friction, better memory, easier chat organization, and stronger support on Apple devices. Windows Latest reports that the updates cover memory, pinned chats, longer inputs, plus a refreshed Copilot experience on macOS and a new iPhone widget. Microsoft says some of it is rolling out gradually, and it only calls out the US as the first stop for advanced memory. Copilot’s memory and chat tools level up Copilot is testing an advanced memory mode that can retain preferences and recurring details instead of treating…