Meta is running get-rich-quick ads for its AI tools
…A few listed what appeared to be real names, and those led to LinkedIn profiles identifying them as contractors producing content for Manus. There was also a person whose LinkedIn profile said…
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Mira Murati’s deposition pulled back the curtain on Sam Altman’s ouster
…The board’s strikingly vague blog post announcing Altman’s ouster was posted on OpenAI’s website, immediately sparking a laundry list of conspiracy theories bandied about on X. (It turned out…
Hanging out in my favorite virtual coffee shop in Tokyo
…In each game, you play as a barista who runs a late-night cafe and also serves something of a therapeutic role, listening to your patrons’ problems and helping them out. You…
Taylor Swift is stepping up the legal war on AI copycats
…of a promotion for her latest album. “Hey, it’s Taylor Swift, and you can listen to my new album The Life of a Showgirl on demand on Amazon Music Unlimited,” Swift…
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…It also got me listening to Daniel Pemberton’s other scores, including Steve Jobs and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, both of which are also fabulous. If my writing suddenly gets…
Netflix’s next great sci-fi show is set in a retirement community
…The Boroughs does a good job of teasing out its mystery, which steadily grows in scale over the course of its eight episodes. I won’t spoil anything, but there’s a…
Uber employees have a Dara AI
…But I don’t think that stuff is going to change the overall polling on, “This is a threat that will take my job away.” Yeah. Listen, if it’s your job…
Bose debuts a new home audio collection
…In fact, when listening to the first sample — “Man I Need” by Olivia Dean — I thought there must be additional speakers playing from behind the curved white screens. I was partly…
How David Sacks crashed and burned in the White House
…The guest list included Tim Cook, Jensen Huang, Jeff Bezos, Marc Andreessen, Marc Benioff, corporate leadership from Meta and Alphabet — and no Sacks, who had been present at a previous state banquet…
Ordering with the Starbucks ChatGPT app was a true coffee nightmare
…Turns out, ChatGPT has my location wrong, and offered a list of stores half a state away from me. When I went to the map view, where ChatGPT said I could change…