Hasan Piker, Self-Described ‘Ayatollah of Woke,’ Wants AI to Die
…Not for the ways in which Sam Altman and all these other AI people greatly overemphasize how powerful and scary their new tool is in an effort to fundraise another $500 billion…
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OpenAI Enters Its Focus Era by Killing Sora
…bets on a wide range of products. This includes Sora, as well as a browser, a family of hardware devices, robots, and Codex, its AI-powered coding agent. These efforts have had…
Meta Pauses Work With Mercor After Data Breach Puts AI Industry Secrets at Risk
…to generate valuable AI models that power products like ChatGPT and Claude Code. AI labs are sensitive about this data because it can reveal to competitors—including other AI labs in the…
OpenAI Enables Marketing Cookies by Default for Free ChatGPT Users
…On Thursday, OpenAI sent an email to users laying out major changes to the AI company’s privacy policy in the US. “We’ll now use cookies to promote OpenAI products and…
Google Maps Gets Chatty With a New Gemini-Powered Interface
…all its products. (Like that Portlandia sketch where the duo visits a boutique and puts bird decals on everything in sight.) Earlier this week, Google added Gemini-powered tools to its Workspace…
Apple CEO Tim Cook Is Stepping Down
…Ternus contended that the AI age hasn’t been a loss for the hardware maker. “Our products are the best place people will use the existing AI tools,” he said. Ternus played…
You Can Get Some of Your Nudes Removed From the Internet Under a New Law
…directions for submitting requests on Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and Meta AI. Microsoft To file a takedown request for some Microsoft products, including Bing Search and OneDrive, Microsoft has a form titled “Report…
Justice Department Says Anthropic Can’t Be Trusted With Warfighting Systems
…crossed.” The Defense Department and other federal agencies are working to replace Anthropic’s AI tools with products from competing tech companies in the next few months. One of the military’s…
Google Is Not Ruling Out Ads in Gemini
…Instead, Google is testing ads in AI Mode, the Search product powered by Gemini. “We have an environment with AI Mode where we can experiment [with ads],” Fox says. He notes that…
This Startup Wants You to Pay Up to Talk With AI Versions of Human Experts
…Rabin said that this product placement isn’t surprising.“Where people are selling products that are helpful in their mission, the system is going to recommend them,” he said. Bennahum backs him…