Sam Altman Tried on Steve Jobs’ Turtle Neck This Week
Welcome to AI This Week, Gizmodo’s weekly roundup where we do a deep dive on what’s been happening in artificial intelligence. I Gave Sam Altman a Copy of My Eyeballs…
Fugees’ Pras Michél Says His Lawyers’ Use of AI Got Him Felony Conviction
Convicted Fugees rapper Prakazrel “Pras” Michél said his former lawyer bungled his trial with a closing argument written by AI. It’s another bizarre twist in a sprawling case that saw…
Looks Like Twitter Shadowbanned The New York Times, Which Advertises on Twitter
X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, has apparently shadowbanned The New York Times, preventing users from seeing tweets that link to the newspaper’s coverage. The move smacks of a…
AMPTP Grabs New Crisis PR Firm for Strike Damage Control
During the months-long Hollywood strikes, both the WGA and SAG-AFTRA have managed to win the court of public opinion fairly easily. Studio heads like David Zaslav and Bob Iger made…
GOP Candidate’s Climate Change Answers, Ranked
Eight Republican presidential candidates took the stage on Wednesday night for the first GOP debate. Twenty minutes into the show, one of the moderators asked the candidates to raise their…
Barack Obama gives gloriously blunt life advice to James Corden’s staff
[embedded content] If you’re going to listen to a life coach, you could probably do a lot worse than Barack Obama. During an appearance on The Late Late Show with…
The Obama family’s beloved dog Bo died, and the internet is seriously bummed
He was a good boy, and the Obamas — along with the whole internet — will very much miss him. On Saturday, Michelle and Barack Obama announced that their family…
Obama’s 2020 playlist has cool dad energy and Megan Thee Stallion
It’s been a while since “president” and “excellent taste” could be used in the same sentence, but President Barack Obama’s recently released playlist of his favorite songs from 2020 makes…
Obama says he has a finsta and now everyone is trying to find it
On the list of celebrity finsta accounts we’d most like to find, President Barack Obama’s name is right up top — just below Beyoncé, but way above Ben Affleck. While…
Little Miss Flint shares her feelings about 2020 with a pointed Trump pic
Mari Copeny’s 2020 mood is super relatable. On Monday, the 13-year-old activist know as “Little Miss Flint” tweeted to let her 128,000 followers know how she feels about this extremely…