What's trending in AI right now, from the app charts to the community feeds. Real links, our take.
Claude Sonnet 5 is out, and people can't agree on it
Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5 this week, and it was the single most-shared AI story across the big community channels. The reactions, though, are all over the place. One of the fastest-climbing AI videos right now is literally titled "Claude Sonnet 5 IS OUT & IT'S HORRIBLE", even as everyone else is passing the release around like it's a big deal. If Claude is part of how you work, this is a good week to try it yourself and make up your own mind, because the internet clearly hasn't.
The apps people are actually downloading
Over in the App Store, ChatGPT and Kling are both sitting at #1 (ChatGPT for productivity, Kling for creative), with Claude, Gemini, Grok, Meta AI and Perplexity all somewhere in the top five. The fun part is a little further down the charts: apps like Home AI for redesigning your room and Tattoo AI for previewing tattoos are climbing fast. AI for your house and AI for your body are both having a quiet little moment.
A lot of the action is outside the US right now
A few things lined up here. Kling, the top creative app above, is a Chinese app for making AI images and video, and it's outranking Canva and every American design tool. Around the same time, Anthropic's Dario Amodei did the rounds with a pretty blunt take on China and AI, and there's a report that the US is only clearing certain American companies to use one of Anthropic's most advanced models. None of these are the same story, but together they're a nice reminder that who gets to use which AI, and where, is becoming its own thing. If you mostly follow the big US labs, it's worth looking a little wider.
What people are grumbling about on Reddit
The r/ChatGPT crowd has feelings this week, and they're mostly about the relationship, not new features. One of the most-talked-about posts is someone realizing that ChatGPT agreeing with everything they said was actually a problem. Another is a flat-out complaint that ChatGPT "has the worst customer service of any company", and a few people just wish it had some sense of time. There's a sweet one too, asking how many people call their chatbot by name. It's a good little window into how everyday users actually feel about this stuff, and it's not all glowing.
One that made us stop scrolling
A video is going around in Brazil about a man who was reportedly arrested after ChatGPT handed information over to police. The details are still fuzzy and we'd want to see the real case before saying much, but the clip is picking up views fast. It's the kind of "wait, AI did what?" story that travels way past the usual tech crowd.
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