AI is blowing up music production
…Streaming platform Deezer reports that more than 50,000 AI-generated songs are being uploaded every day. All that AI-generated music is getting harder to identify and filter out, while at…
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What’s next for Microsoft’s Surface PCs?
…I’m expecting Nvidia’s N1 and N1X chips to be tuned for AI workloads. Microsoft has been working hard to make Windows attractive to AI developers, so a Nvidia partnership here…
Microsoft’s new Xbox shake-up is all about platform changes
…It’s also a lot of AI experience, which is bound to sound the alarm bells with some Xbox fans, but looking at the appointments there’s no clear AI push for…
Gemini is in danger of going full Copilot
…less enthused about AI, and that they dislike it more the more they use the tools. Constantly nagging people to use a thing that they don’t like generally doesn’t go…
Grok schlock panned by fed flock
There is a harsh truth about Elon Musk’s “truth-seeking” AI chatbot Grok: It’s not very good, and not many people are using it. That’s the takeaway of a…
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…Tina Nguyen Apr 19 The AI code wars are heating up OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic are eating the software world alive. David Pierce Apr 12 Grammarly’s sloppelganger saga AI-generated ‘Expert…
Microsoft AI chief on why it’s ‘dangerous’ to call AI ‘alive’
…I’m wondering if that political pushback has actually changed how you are talking about this. There are a lot of your peers who think AI simply has a marketing problem, that…
Hackers are learning to exploit chatbot ‘personalities’
…For more on AI mischief, follow Robert Hart. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers’ inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started Hacking the first generation of…
How Iran out-shitposted the White House
…Little Lego minifigures dressed up as soldiers as Lego planes and Lego helicopters burn in an AI-generated desert. Videos crammed in references to Jeffrey Epstein and dead Iranian schoolgirls alongside guns…
Apple’s AI promises are finally, almost, sort of, here
Apple kicked off its annual developer conference with bold promises about AI. The company, CEO Tim Cook said, would be “introducing new technologies and innovations that push the limits on what’s…