Google’s latest AI features include real-time translated phone calls in your own AI-generated voice, an AI camera coach that makes you a better Instagram husband, and a voicemail replacement.
Gear, Gear / Gear News and Events, Gear / Products / Phones, Gear / Products / Watches, Hey Gemini
10 Crazy Features Powering Google’s Pixel 10 Phones (and Watch) Read Post »
The Pixel 10 series is here. These are the first official flagship Android phones with magnetic Qi2 wireless charging. Also in tow are the Pixel Watch 4 and Pixel Buds 2a earbuds.
Gear, Gear / Gear News and Events, Gear / Products / Phones, Gear / Products / Watches, Gear / Products / Headphones, Ten-Hut
Google Pixel 10 Series, Pixel Watch 4, Pixel Buds 2a: Specs, Features, Release Date Read Post »
Built with Gemini, Google’s AI health coach will be everything but a doctor.
Gear, Gear / Gear News and Events, Gear / Products / Watches, Gear / Products / Health and Fitness, White Coat
The Fitbit App Is Turning Into an AI-Powered Personal Health Coach Read Post »
An early winner in the generative AI wars was near collapse—then bet everything on a star-studded comeback. Can Stability AI beat the competition?
The Big Story, Business, Business / Artificial Intelligence, Culture, Culture / Movies, Cut!
AI Isn’t Coming for Hollywood. It Has Already Arrived Read Post »
Runway AI paired up with Imax to screen 10 AI-generated winning selections. The festival has been derided by some cinephiles, while others insist it’s part of a natural technological evolution.
Culture, Culture / Movies, Cream of the Slop
I Went to an AI Film Festival Screening and Left With More Questions Than Answers Read Post »
Built using AI technology from Baidu and DeepSeek, the virtual livestreamers sell everything from wet wipes to printers 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Business, Business / Retail and Logistics, Business / Social Media, Business / Artificial Intelligence, Sales Sims
Chinese ‘Virtual Human’ Salespeople Are Outperforming Their Real Human Counterparts Read Post »
The AI startup is chasing a $500 billion valuation, with backers betting it can become the next Apple or Google. There are reasons for skepticism.
Business, Business / Artificial Intelligence, Model Behavior
OpenAI Is Poised To Become The Most Valuable Startup Ever. Should It Be? Read Post »
As Adobe rolls out more generative AI features for the PDF, the era of chatbot-less software is firmly a thing of the past.
Gear, Gear / Gear News and Events, Files Are Forever
On this episode of Uncanny Valley, we dig into WIRED’s latest—from crude deportation memes to GPT-5’s negative reception.
Business, Business / Artificial Intelligence, Uncanny Valley
For years, smartphones and computers have threatened to erase writing by hand. Would that be so bad?
Culture, Science, Politics, Culture / Digital Culture, Flipped Script
Parents, teachers, and experts have big opinions about the impacts of AI on young people and education. But what do the students themselves say?
Culture, Culture / Digital Culture, Vibe Codes
Since the start of the AI boom, teachers have been tasked with figuring out if LLMs are helpful tools or a cheat code. This is how they’re bringing AI to their curricula.
Business, Business / Artificial Intelligence, Machined Learning
From calculators to ChatGPT, the introduction of new technology into schools has long inspired frenzied discourse: Will it revolutionize the system or rot kids’ brains? It often does neither.
Gear, Hype Cycle
Tech in the Classroom: A History of Hype and Hysteria Read Post »
Between homeschool provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill and Trump’s attempts to gut the Department of Education, teaching kids looks different now. Silicon Valley’s answer? Microschools.
Business, Privacy Please
How Microschools Became the Latest Tech Mogul Obsession Read Post »
Artificial intelligence software is designing novel experimental protocols that improve upon the work of human physicists, although the humans are still “doing a lot of baby-sitting.”
Science, Science / Physics and Math
AI Is Designing Bizarre New Physics Experiments That Actually Work Read Post »
This week on Uncanny Valley, we talk about one of the most notorious American corporations. So what does Palantir actually do?
Business, Business / Computers and Software, Uncanny Valley
Decoding Palantir, the Most Mysterious Company in Silicon Valley Read Post »
Software engineers are finding OpenAI’s new GPT-5 model is helping them think through coding problems—but isn’t much better at actual coding.
Business, Business / Artificial Intelligence, GPT-Fine
The OpenAI CEO addressed GPT-5 backlash, the AI bubble—and why he’s willing to spend trillions of dollars to win.
Business, Business / Artificial Intelligence, Chatpocalypse
Sam Altman Says ChatGPT Is on Track to Out-Talk Humanity Read Post »
WIRED found over 100 YouTube channels using AI to create lazy fanfiction-style videos. Despite being obviously fake, there’s a psychological reason people are falling for them.
Culture, Culture / Digital Culture, Cheapfakes
‘Cheapfake’ AI Celeb Videos Are Rage-Baiting People on YouTube Read Post »
Peak has sold millions of copies and is Aggro Crab’s biggest hit to date. That makes it a prime target for cloning.
Culture, Culture / Video Games, Attack Of The Clones
AI Slop Is Ripping Off One of Summer’s Best Games. Copycats Are Proving Hard to Kill Read Post »
