The Stepback
…a ‘robot army.’ Robert Hart Dec 21, 2025 AI image generators are getting better by getting worse There’s been a surprising development. Allison Johnson Dec 14, 2025 Starlink made ‘work from…
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Apple’s new AI photo editing tools mostly work, for better and worse
…In practice, I don’t think I like it. It’s a small comfort that images edited with these AI tools get Synth ID labels signaling that they have been modified with…
Your article about AI doesn’t need AI art
…Others have found them helpful to stay afloat in a difficult field, like illustrators who experiment with feeding AI image generators their own work or more practical applications like using the AI…
AI ‘content creators’ are getting harder to spot
…YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and other platforms have developed rules for labeling synthetic media, particularly the realistic kind, while also promoting their own suites of AI tools, including some that can clone or…
My baby deer plushie told me that Mitski’s dad was a CIA operative
…Social robots, AI companions as a tool to practice good relationship behaviors, AI in immersive gaming and entertainment content generation — all of these ideas have been explored before, though not quite in…
Read OpenAI’s latest internal memo about beating the competition — including Anthropic
…As AI spreads beyond developers into every team, workflow, and industry, that narrowness can become a real liability. > ● Their stated run rate is inflated. They use accounting treatment that makes revenue look…
The SpaceX IPO is a trillion-dollar gamble on the future of space
…https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/gettyimages-2270729873.jpg?quality=90&strip=all] In practice, it’s unlikely that anything you could dig up from an asteroid…
Age verification is a mess but we’re doing it anyway
In the span of a few years, age verification went from an idea to standard practice on large parts of the internet. Seeking to prevent kids from accessing porn, other inappropriate content…
Attack of the killer script kiddies
Last August, some of the best cybersecurity teams in the business gathered in Las Vegas to demonstrate the strength of their AI bug-finding systems at DARPA’s Artificial Intelligence Cyber Challenge…
Internet Culture
…degrading practice,” The Guardian reports. Pope Leo XIV is clearly thinking about the digital information ecosystem: he said he chose his papal name in part due to developments in AI “that pose…