Gamers’ Worst Nightmares About AI Are Coming True
…AI's proliferation in the gaming industry is already accelerating job loss and cheapening the work of developers at studios now scrutinized by anti-AI gamers. Data centers have siphoned RAM from…
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The New Wild West of AI Kids’ Toys
…Sharp put its PokeTomo talking AI toy on sale in Japan this April. But if you browse for AI toys on Amazon, you’ll mostly find specialized players like FoloToy, Alilo, Miriat…
China’s OpenClaw Boom Is a Gold Rush for AI Companies
…Workshops teaching people how to use the AI agent have popped up in cities across the country, drawing crowds of hundreds. Tech companies are racing to integrate OpenClaw into their platforms, while…
Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones
Code discreetly added to Meta’s AI app over multiple updates this year shows that the feature, internally called “NameTag,” identifies people captured by the glasses’ camera and, when activated, alerts the…
There Aren’t a Lot of Reasons to Get Excited About a New Amazon Smartphone
…Such a move suggests this new smartphone could run Android; however, the Reuters report indicates that Transformer might have an AI interface that would “eliminate the need for traditional app stores.” Generative…
A Viral YouTube Show About an Unhinged AI Is Hitting Theaters. It’s a Big Test for Hollywood
…An animated series about six people trapped in a virtual world overseen by an AI ringmaster with a god complex, its characters—all cartoonish avatars who can’t remember their real-world…
The Danger Behind Meta Killing End-to-End Encryption for Instagram DMs
…a partnership with Signal creator Moxie Marlinspike to deploy his new private AI technology, known as Confer, for Meta AI. The move, announced by Marlinspike this week, could protect millions of conversations…
When Satellite Data Becomes a Weapon
…The image was an AI-manipulated version of a year-old Google Earth shot from Bahrain—wrong location, wrong timeline, fabricated damage. Open source intelligence researchers debunked it within hours, matching it…
Garmin’s Latest Training Features Fend Off the Advances of the Apple Watch
…Garmin introduced nutrition tracking to its Connect platform at the start of the year, though unfortunately it's behind the paywalled Connect+ subscription. That means you can now log your food, as…
Google Is Rebranding the Fitbit App to ‘Google Health’
Google introduced a dramatic redesign of the Fitbit app last year in public beta, centered around a new AI-powered Health Coach chatbot that can provide guidance on anything and everything from…