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Meta spied on its own employees to train AI, then immediately leaked their data - classicTech

Meta spied on its own employees to train AI, then immediately leaked their data - classic

Meta paused its employee keystroke-tracking AI program after an internal leak exposed workers' private conversations and performance data across the company. Yes, really.

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Google wants Gemini to be your one AI to rule them all (no pressure)Tech

Google wants Gemini to be your one AI to rule them all (no pressure)

Google has updated its Gemini app in a clear push to transform it from a standalone chatbot into an all-purpose AI hub - taking direct aim at ChatGPT and Claude in the process.

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The government just banned Anthropic's AI models and the reason is way more political than they're letting onTech

The government just banned Anthropic's AI models and the reason is way more political than they're letting on

The Trump administration forced Anthropic to pull its latest cybersecurity AI models, but TechCrunch's reporting suggests the real reasons behind the ban are far more political than the official jailbreak narrative lets on.

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Canva's AI can now just... make the whole design for you, and honestly we're not readyTech

Canva's AI can now just... make the whole design for you, and honestly we're not ready

Canva's AI assistant can now use multiple tools autonomously to generate fully editable designs from a text prompt - a genuine workflow shift for anyone who isn't a professional designer (and maybe even some who are).

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Joanna Stern quit the Wall Street Journal to tell you AI is weird and she's not a robotTech

Joanna Stern quit the Wall Street Journal to tell you AI is weird and she's not a robot

Joanna Stern has left the Wall Street Journal to launch her own media company, New Things - and she's kicking it off with a book about living with AI called I Am Not a Robot.

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Bob Dylan might be selling AI fiction on Patreon and honestly, very on brandCulture

Bob Dylan might be selling AI fiction on Patreon and honestly, very on brand

Bob Dylan may be selling AI-generated historical fiction on Patreon for $5 a month. As GQ reports, the situation is as murky and weird as you'd expect from someone who has spent 60 years being impossible to read.

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Move over, design thinking - 'applied creativity' is the new buzzword trying to save your job from AICulture

Move over, design thinking - 'applied creativity' is the new buzzword trying to save your job from AI

OpenAI's Sam Altman, Microsoft AI's Mustafa Suleiman, and Autodesk's Andrew Anagnost all agree: in the age of AI, creativity isn't a personality trait - it's the skill that keeps you employed.

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AI is catfishing gay men with fake shirtless influencers and honestly, sameCulture

AI is catfishing gay men with fake shirtless influencers and honestly, same

AI-generated male influencers are racking up tens of thousands of followers in gay online spaces, and the comments sections are blissfully, heartbreakingly unaware. Vox reports on the deepfake thirst trap pipeline nobody asked for but here we are.

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Trump finally signed the AI executive order and honestly, same energy as forgetting to reply to an email for a monthTech

Trump finally signed the AI executive order and honestly, same energy as forgetting to reply to an email for a month

After shelving the original executive order last month, Trump finally signed the AI executive order on Monday night. Late to the party, but the party is now officially a policy.

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You're not losing your job to AI - you're losing it to Dave from accounting who figured out AI agentsTech

You're not losing your job to AI - you're losing it to Dave from accounting who figured out AI agents

Nvidia's Jensen Huang says AI won't take your job - but someone who uses AI will. Here's why that distinction matters more than people realize, and what you should probably be doing about it today.

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You thought cover letters were bad? Now AI robots are interviewing you on cameraTech

You thought cover letters were bad? Now AI robots are interviewing you on camera

Fika Jobs raised $4M to build a hiring platform where AI agents conduct video interviews with candidates, promising to fix the broken, opaque hiring process - though the irony of fighting AI resumes with AI interviewers is not lost on anyone.

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AI companies are now basically running a shadow media empire built on stolen contentTech

AI companies are now basically running a shadow media empire built on stolen content

AI companies trained their models on media content without permission - and now they're using that content to compete directly with the outlets they scraped. The 'no harm' legal defense is getting harder to sell.

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Sundar Pichai just casually told us the web is changing forever, no biggieTech

Sundar Pichai just casually told us the web is changing forever, no biggie

Google CEO Sundar Pichai sat down with The Verge after Google I/O to talk AI, Search, YouTube changes, and what all of it means for the web you thought you knew.

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Nvidia's RTX Spark is genuinely exciting - and you probably won't care for a whileTech

Nvidia's RTX Spark is genuinely exciting - and you probably won't care for a while

Nvidia's RTX Spark platform could seriously change how AI apps are built on Windows - but mainstream users should probably set a reminder for a couple years from now.

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Apple's WWDC was kind of boring, and that's actually the most interesting thing about itTech

Apple's WWDC was kind of boring, and that's actually the most interesting thing about it

Apple's WWDC keynote was, by most accounts, a bit of a snooze - but buried inside the mild announcements are three telling clues about where the company is actually heading, and AI is very much the thread pulling it all together.

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Apple's WWDC 2026 is almost here and Siri might finally not be embarrassingTech

Apple's WWDC 2026 is almost here and Siri might finally not be embarrassing

Apple's WWDC 2026 is nearly here, and Siri's long-awaited revamp is reportedly the headline act - alongside a wave of Apple Intelligence updates that could finally make the AI push feel real.

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People are fleeing Google Search like it just put AI slop on every plateTech

People are fleeing Google Search like it just put AI slop on every plate

Google replaced its search results with AI agents at I/O 2026, and users responded by downloading DuckDuckGo at a 30% higher rate. Turns out people don't love being force-fed pre-digested information.

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Walmart's new CEO wants AI to run your shopping list and honestly, sameTech

Walmart's new CEO wants AI to run your shopping list and honestly, same

New Walmart CEO John Furner is consolidating the retail giant's tech operations and going all-in on agentic AI - and at 2 million employees strong, when Walmart pivots, everyone feels it.

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Big tech is letting the US government peek at AI models before the rest of usTech

Big tech is letting the US government peek at AI models before the rest of us

Google, Microsoft, xAI and other major AI companies have agreed to give the Trump administration early access to new AI models before public release - a development with implications for regulation, national competitiveness, and a whole lot more.

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AI is making us more productive and somehow more miserable at the same timeCulture

AI is making us more productive and somehow more miserable at the same time

Gallup's latest AI data reveals a deeply awkward truth: employees are more productive than ever and less engaged than they've been in years. Turns out efficiency and meaning aren't the same thing.

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