Elon Musk Boosts New Yorker’s Sam Altman Exposé on X as Trial Begins
…The boosted Farrow post didn’t come with an “ad” label in people’s feeds on Monday, but users who clicked on a post options menu were shown choices such as “report…
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Google Turns a Selfie Video Into Your Account’s Spare Key
…labeled Improve Google services, if they change their mind. This selfie video process may feel familiar to Google power users who have experimented with other recently released features. Google launched an AI…
Erling Haaland Is Everywhere at the World Cup. Most of It Is AI
…Similarly, an AI-generated track mimicking Drake and The Weeknd that appeared in 2023 created its own fan hype, getting streamed enthusiastically before the labels could get it pulled. That same year…
Meta Deletes Face-Recognition System From Its Smart Glasses App After WIRED Report
…A few fragments of the NameTag system remain in the version of latest Meta AI, including an internal debug menu label and a dormant link meant to open a recognized person’s…
Shut Those Laptops! Anthropic Puts Its Claude Cowork Agent on Your Phone
The era of half-cracking a laptop to keep AI agents running comes to a close. On Tuesday, Anthropic announced that Claude Cowork, its AI agent designed to perform digital tasks for…
Etsy Is In Its Flop Era, and Sellers Are Fleeing
…declining sales and the influx of what one user referred to as “AI-generated slop” that isn’t labeled as such. “Every maker I've talked to is basically screaming into the…
Elon Musk’s Last-Ditch Effort to Control OpenAI: Recruit Sam Altman to Tesla
…The document continues, “One major issue for Tesla is when people think of Elon and AI, they think of OpenAI.” Another part of the FAQ labeled “Who?” lists several Tesla executives who…
The Pro-Iran Meme Machine Trolling Trump With AI Lego Cartoons
…their latest AI-generated, Lego-inspired Trump video. The video features a Trump mini-figure colluding with leaders from Gulf states, Iranian officials pressing a big red button labeled “back to the…
‘Thank You for Generating With Us!’ Hollywood's AI Acolytes Stay on the Hype Train
…Despite that blow to early prophecies that Sora would remake Hollywood, the hype machine was working overtime Tuesday, as executives labeled AI as a technological feat on par with the harnessing discovery…
Cyberattack on a Car Breathalyzer Firm Leaves Drivers Stuck
Customer service calls and chats with the Sears Home Services AI bot Samantha were exposed and publicly accessible until a researcher reported the situation—revealing personal details from calls and chats, including…