Roku’s new AI channel is top of the slops: is this an important AI milestone or just “the cutting edge of AI slop”? AI & Bots
Pixel Buds Pro 2 and 2a are getting some upgrades, including deeper Gemini integration – Engadget AI & Bots
A step too far? US lawmaker pledges ‘Data Center Bill of Rights’ to let protests be more effective AI & Bots
I read Mark Zuckerberg’s ‘The Future is for Everyone’ AI manifesto and it almost drove me insane AI & Bots
Twitch streamers can now refuse to let Amazon train its genAI models on their content – Engadget AI & Bots
Oracle plans more layoffs weeks after spending most of its $2.1 billion restructuring budget, report claims — some teams face double-digit percentage reductions, 21,000 full-time positions already eliminated AI & Bots
‘You all know we’re not actually going to lose gravity for 7 seconds today right?’: why the Weather Channel is reminding us that the eclipse doesn’t zap gravity and the study that asked if it has any effect AI & Bots
I tried ChatGPT’s new Chrome tabs feature — and it made researching anything on the web so much easier without constant searching, copying and pasting AI & Bots
Google’s Pixel Watch 5 gets offline Gemini support, improved GPS-tracking and a slightly higher price – Engadget AI & Bots
Legal startup founder Robert Mahari joins Anthropic to lead Claude’s push into law practices AI & Bots
Suspected China-linked hackers used AI to run the first-ever end-to-end autonomous cyberattack on Taiwan’s government, Israeli firm says — open-source-built tool continuously devised effective hack strategies in real-time AI & Bots
‘I think that Claude is about to start hemorrhaging customers’: Anthropic is watermarking ordinary text in a way you can’t see — and EU rules could push ChatGPT and Gemini to follow AI & Bots
‘All of these states are made up’: Users aren’t happy about Google’s premium AI health coach, and it couldn’t have come at a worse time as new Pixel tech drops AI & Bots
Mistral now offers EU data processing and priority access, but both come with important limits AI & Bots
Independent bookstores in Europe receive suspicious orders for thousands of books, prompting fears they’ll be destroyed to train AI — sellers believe acquisitions are part of AI tech companies’ push to get more data AI & Bots
Claude will begin digitally watermarking marking AI-generated text and images — Anthropic details how it’ll comply with the EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act AI & Bots
