… This is a unique occasion to help transform tools and products, support the developer ecosystem, and unlock new revenue.” The email does not mention artificial intelligence, but a link in the email goes to a page about “partnerships to improve our AI products.” That page explains that, beyond the p… …
… Internally, Amazon employees mock the company’s AI tools, refer to its output as “slop,” and joke about the company’s failed attempt to motivate employees to use AI tools effectively. …
… Lavigne’s frequent collaborator Tega Brain has also released browser tools like “Slop Evader,” which filters out generative AI slop by removing all search results from after November 2022, when ChatGPT was first released to the public. “I’ve been doing these little experiments in digital sabotage w… …
AI ‘BLOCKADE’: The Right Is Using AI Content Scanners to Try to Supercharge Book Banning Claire Woodcock · Apr 1, 2026 at 9:00 AM Groups that challenge books have begun using Gemini, ChatGPT, xAI, and other AI tools to try to get books banned. …
… On the r/CharacterAI subreddit there are literally hundreds of posts about how useless Character.AI has become, and there are also separate subreddits called CharacterAIRevolution, CAIRevolution, Characterai rebellion, characteraiventing,and CharacteraiResistance that are entirely dedicated to look… …
… Anthropic has tightened access to Claude Code , and tested removing access to Claude Code entirely in its $20 per month plan keeping access in its $100 per month plan As noted in The Verge , Anthropic restricted Claude access to users of OpenClaw because the heavy usage was unsustainable OpenAI’s C… …
… A part of it IS our go-to-market team. our engineering, support, legal.. you get the point.” Much has been written in the last few weeks about “tokenmaxxing,” a vanity metric at tech startups and tech giants in which the amount of money being spent on AI tools like Claude and ChatGPT is seen as a m… …
… On Tuesday, we published an article about an internal Microsoft strategy document that explained the company wanted to “make people addicted” to its new AI assistant, Scout. …
… The announcement was so important that Disney’s then-CEO Bob Iger and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman both championed it in a press release that is full of the kind of cope that Silicon Valley AI boosters and some Hollywood executives suggest would unleash a new era of moviemaking and storytelling powered by… …
… Otherwise, send me an email at emanuel@404media.co. Predictably, the huge spike in productivity that these companies claim their own AI products have enabled hasn’t resulted in more or better products, shorter work weeks, or better consumer experiences. …