Month: July 2025
I spent 24 hours flirting with Elon Musk’s AI girlfriend
Earlier this week, xAI added what can only be described as an AI anime girlfriend named Ani to its Grok chatbot. Which is how I ended up on a virtual starry beach as an AI waifu avatar tried to give me a “spicy” kiss. You’ve probably seen screenshots, videos, and…
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GM and Redwood teaming up to make batteries for energy storage
General Motors and Redwood Materials are joining forces yet again, this time with the intent to build energy storage units made out of recycled EV batteries. The two companies signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding to build energy storage out of US-manufactured batteries, as well as “second-life” EV packs from…
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ElliQ Review: An AI Companion Bot for Lonely Elders
The AI-powered ElliQ robot and smart display aim to improve life for older folks living alone. Source
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Reddit was down – Here’s everything we know about issues with the site and app
Refresh 2025-07-16T17:01:13.334Z Reddit says all systems are operational Well, it’s always a relief when outages are quick, and Reddit certainly kept its users informed via a status page and got a fix rolled out pretty fast. The service’s status page now shows the incident as resolved and that everything is…
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Scale AI lays off 200 employees, ‘We ramped up our GenAI capacity too quickly’
Scale AI, the AI industry’s chief data dealer, will lay off 14 percent of the company, or about 200 employees, just one month after Meta took a multibillion-dollar stake in the company and hired its CEO and other staff. The layoffs also include 500 of its global contractors, Scale spokesperson…
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US Army soldier pleads guilty to hacking telcos, extortion, wire fraud, identity theft
A former soldier has plead guilty to a number of charges These include fraud, identity theft, and conspiracy to hack organisations The soldier and his co-conspirators exfiltrated and sold data from companies The Department of Justice has announced that an ex-soldier has plead guilty to ‘conspiring to hack into telecommunications…
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