Podcast Episodes

OpenAI shelved plans to release an adult chatbot, Spotify testing a tool to help real artists deal with AI slop, and a jury rules against Meta and YouTube in social media addiction case

-OpenAI has "indefinitely" abandoned plans to release an a erotic chatbot for adults following concerns from employees and investors, the company con…

7 months ago

Ultrahuman has opened US pre-orders for Ring Pro

The company has been in a legal tussle with rivals Oura.

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7 months ago

Baltimore sues xAI over Grok deepfakes, X is changing its revenue-sharing policy, and Sony and Honda is killing its Afeela EVs

-Baltimore began a municipal lawsuit against xAI, arguing that Elon Musk's businesses violated the city's Consumer Protection Ordinance.

-Starting T…

7 months ago

Wheely, an on-demand chauffeur app, makes its US debut in NYC

The London-based company has plans to expand to five major cities in the US in the next three years.

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7 months ago

The US bans all new foreign-made network routers, Apple will reportedly start stuffing ads into the Maps app, and Wing is expanding its drone delivery service to the Bay Area

-The Federal Communications Commission has released a notice today designating any consumer routers manufactured outside the US as a security risk.

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7 months ago

Elon Musk claims Terafab project will be the 'largest chip manufacturing facility ever'

The Terafab project in Austin, Texas will be a joint venture between Tesla, SpaceX and xAI.

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7 months ago

Reddit is looking for methods to combat its bot problem, team work makes the dream work for Plastic Eating Bacteria, and the Crimson Desert developer promised to replace the game’s AI-generated art

-According to Reddit's CEO, Steve Huffman, the social media platform is exploring different ways to verify a user is human and not a bot.

-In Cheyenn…

7 months ago

Meta's metaverse app will stick around after all

Horizon Worlds for Quest will stick around for the "foreseeable future," according to the company's CTO.

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7 months ago

Amazon acquired autonomous robotics startup Rivr, OpenAI is putting ChatGPT, its browser and code generator into one desktop app, and DoorDash will start paying gig workers for creating content to train AI models

-Rivr is based in Zurich and was valued at $110 million in a funding round from August 2024, which both Amazon and its CEO's Bezos Expeditions partic…

7 months ago

Meta will shut down VR Horizon Worlds access in June

The company shared that it would go "all-in" on the mobile version of the platform in February.

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7 months ago