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I bought a friend - Friend AI pin

For $130, you can wear an AI “friend” around your neck. Linus tests its quirks, questions its privacy tradeoffs, and finds out if anyone would actually want one. The reactions in public say a lot ...
Futurism

McDonald’s Pulls Down AI-Generated Holiday Ad After Deluge of Mockery

Update: McDonald’s has issued a very strange response to the drama. Thanks to the rise in popularity of generative AI, mainstream companies like Coca-Cola and Google are jumping on the bandwagon to ...
Wired

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Block Are Teaming Up to Make AI Agents Play Nice

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Block have cofounded a new open source organization—the Agentic AI Foundation—to promote standards for artificial intelligence agents. The three companies are also transferring ...
New York Post

Apple shakes up AI team as top exec John Giannandrea steps down

Apple’s longtime artificial intelligence chief is leaving as the iPhone maker and its Siri voice assistant scramble to play catchup with AI rivals, the company said. John Giannandrea, who had served ...
The Verge

Apple AI chief steps down following Siri setbacks

A former Microsoft AI VP is replacing John Giannandrea as Apple’s head of AI. A former Microsoft AI VP is replacing John Giannandrea as Apple’s head of AI. is a news writer who covers the streaming ...
Variety

James Cameron Says It’s ‘Horrifying to Me’ That AI Can ‘Make Up an Actor’: It Creates a ‘Performance From Scratch With a Text Prompt’

Safe to say James Cameron will never cast Tilly Norwood in a movie. During a recent interview with CBS’ Sunday Morning, the director of “The Terminator” explained that even before the invention of ...
New Scientist

Why Google’s custom AI chips are shaking up the tech industry

Nvidia’s position as the dominant supplier of AI chips may be under threat from a specialised chip pioneered by Google, with reports suggesting companies like Meta and Anthropic are looking to spend ...
Ars Technica

HP plans to save millions by laying off thousands, ramping up AI use

HP Inc. said that it will lay off 4,000 to 6,000 employees in favor of AI deployments, claiming it will help save $1 billion in annualized gross run rate by the end of its fiscal 2028. HP expects to ...
Wall Street Journal

Nvidia Stock Falls on Report Google Is Stepping Up AI Chip Rivalry

A report that Alphabet is picking up efforts to compete with Nvidia in offering artificial-intelligence chips is the latest tailwind for the Google parent’s stock. Google is talking to Meta Platforms ...
GamesRadar+

Opposing Steam's AI disclosures, Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says game stores should drop "the AI tag" because "it makes no sense" when "AI will be involved in nearly all future ...

RPGs Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 director admits Sandfall "tried" AI during the J'RPG's development, but "didn’t like it" RPGs Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 gets dragged into the Larian AI drama, while ...
CNN

HP to cut about 6,000 jobs by 2028, ramps up AI efforts

The company laid off an additional 1,000 to 2,000 employees in February, as part of a previously announced restructuring plan. Demand for AI-enabled PCs has continued to ramp externally, reaching over ...