Anthropic Sets a New Gold Standard: Your Move, OpenAI
Anthropic, a startup born out of OpenAI defectors, claims its new chatbot, Claude 3, has broken new ground for the AI world. The updated AI chatbot, released on Monday, outperforms…
Wendy’s Surge Pricing, AI Willy Wonka Sham, R.I.P Apple Car and More Fun With Phones
Photo: Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto (Getty Images) Putting your phone in airplane mode when boarding a flight feels like common sense. You wouldn’t be crazy for thinking your phone signal could interfere…
That Dinosaur Croissant Going Viral Right Now Is Tragically Fake
Have you seen that croissant made in the shape of a dinosaur that’s gone viral in recent days on sites like Reddit and X? It’s incredibly cute. But we regret…
Adobe Is Testing a New AI Tool That Can Create Music From Text Prompts
The era of bad robot music is upon us. Adobe is working on a new AI tool that will let anyone be a music producer—no instrument or editing experience required.…
Science Journal That Published ‘Rat Dck’ AI Gibberish Speaks Out
Don’t worry—the rat dck can no longer hurt you. The open-access paper that contained bizarre, AI-generated imagery of rat genitalia and gibberish graphics has been retracted by its publisher, which…
That Viral Photo of a Man Smoking in McDonald’s Was Made With AI
Have you seen a photo on social media recently that appears to show a man in 1980s-style clothes smoking a cigarette in McDonald’s? The image has gone viral, racking up…
WordPress and Tumblr Plan to Sell User Content to AI Companies
Automattic, the parent company of sites like WordPress and Tumblr, is in talks to sell content from its platforms to AI companies like MidJourney and OpenAI for training purposes, according…
Google Is Paying News Outlets to Unleash an Avalanche of AI Slop
Google swears it’s not trying to kill journalism, but many of its latest projects seem geared toward that end. Google is paying five-figure sums to small publishers asking them to…
R.I.P. Apple’s Electric Car
Photo: CFOTO/Future Publishing (Getty Images) Apple’s long-anticipated (and much delayed) project to build an electric car is going to that junkyard heap in the sky, according to a new report…
Google Tests Killing the News
The “News” tab has been a staple of Google Search for over 20 years, so when it disappeared on Wednesday, you can imagine how confused some users were. It turns…