The only way to fight deepfakes is by making deepfakes
…They were having lunch with friends, and the voice couldn’t deal with crosstalk or delays in the audio — it tried to fill the silences. And most importantly, the voice sounded human…
Search
Sundar Pichai on AI, the future of search, and what’s happening to the web
…effectively, and we’ve seen the transition internally, particularly amongst our developers where we have transitioned from using AI tools to assist coding to them, a portion of the engineers directing teams…
xAI
…Elizabeth Lopatto May 4 We are now looking at Brockman’s other financial dealings. Cerebras, Stripe, CoreWeave, and Helion all appear on his financial disclosures. All four have deals with OpenAI. I…
Microsoft’s new Xbox chief starts making her mark
Microsoft’s new Xbox chief has had a busy couple of months after promising “the return of Xbox.” Asha Sharma met with publishers at the Game Developers Conference in March, and has…
Twitch
…Starting today in the US, “we’re giving all streamers access to some of our best monetization and community building tools including Bits, subs, emotes, badges, and Channel Points,” Twitch says . Twitch…
Why Jonah Peretti sold BuzzFeed
…I think today, if you look around the landscape, it’s a lot more about deals, partnerships, business development, and things like that, and that can be really transformative for a company…
Uber
…Uber Robert Hart Nov 27, 2025 Uber laid off contractors developing AI tools for Google. The workers, part of Project Sandbox, were one month into an expected three month stint, Business Insider…
The military embraced AI long before Claude
…A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare, journalist Katrina Manson investigates the development of Maven from its inception in 2017 as an experiment in applying computer vision to…
AI is blowing up music production
…That’s ridiculous.” Or, I’ve even met people in the music space who said they’d never use Pro Tools, AutoTune, Melodyne, or some of the other things that have developed…
Ride-sharing
…Uber Robert Hart Nov 27, 2025 Uber laid off contractors developing AI tools for Google. The workers, part of Project Sandbox, were one month into an expected three month stint, Business Insider…