Author: Zach_Wilson
Sales of a teddy bear were suspended because of its sexually explicit AI
FoloToy, a company selling AI-enabled toys, suspended sales of its products after a consumer safety report showed there were few restrictions around what its toys would talk about, CNN writes. The report, put together by the US Public Interest Research Group Education Fund, found that FoloToy's products would discuss everything…
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Verizon has free phones – even the iPhone 17 Pro – and I’ve tried them all, here’s what to buy and what to skip
If you want a new smartphone at the lowest possible price for a Black Friday deal, signing up for a long-term agreement with a wireless carrier like Verizon, is often the best way to save money. Whether you’re looking for the newest model, like the iPhone 17 Pro, or a…
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Grok’s Elon Musk worship is getting weird
It’s no secret that Elon Musk shapes the X social platform and X’s “maximally truth-seeking” Grok AI chatbot to his preferences. But it’s possible Musk may have needed a bit of an extra ego boost this week, because Grok’s worship of its creator seems, shall we say, more noticeable than…
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Google’s new AI image creator took my shirt off
I gave Google’s new Nano Banana Pro a try, and it immediately took my clothes off. I didn’t ask it to, but the AI model evidently decided my greetings card would look better with more skin. Nano Banana Pro is, as the name suggests, aimed at professionals. Powered by Gemini…
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Microsoft’s AI-powered copy and paste can now use on-device AI
Microsoft is upgrading its Advanced Paste tool in PowerToys for Windows 11, allowing you to use an on-device AI model to power some of its features. With the 0.96 update, you can route requests through Microsoft’s Foundry Local tool or the open-source Ollama, both of which run AI models on…
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Meta’s Hyperscape is ready to turn your real living room into a VR hangout
Meta’s impressive, photorealistic digital replicas of real places built using its “Hyperscape” capture tech, which uses the cameras on a Quest 3 or Quest 3S VR headset to scan a room, have so far been solitary spaces. If you wanted to visit a virtual version of a room in your…
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