DeepSeek's friendly whale hearkens back to a more playful era of tech branding—and it might just be the disruptor the AI industry needs.

Commentary: AI isn't the selling point tech companies ... And I demand that these tech companies drop the sparkle aesthetic in the meantime. It's not for them.

Further down the contact card is an explainer of AI messages, which Google defines as messages that are sent to Bard's servers. The standard send button will feature a sparkle icon within such ...