AI in daily life — jobs, culture, consumer products, privacy, and how the technology touches real people.
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For years, AI-generated video lived on phone screens — short dramas, feeds, ads. This month it moved onto the biggest stage Chinese television has, and the numbers behind it explain why broadcasters are moving fast. Mango TV's Hou Xiyou Ji ("Journey to the West: The Sequel"
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Two days at China's biggest AI gathering produced a pair of firsts that had nothing to do with benchmarks: a machine-built singer filling a riverside venue, and a Guinness-certified coding marathon whose winner is nine years old. Yuri, an AI virtual idol holding China's
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Apple pitched its new Watch audio features as memory helpers. Legal experts see something else: the first mainstream test of whether a computer that hears everything — but stores nothing — can still break wiretap law. Apple's Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 ship with Siri Recap and Live Rewind,
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A one-dev indie studio just published the cleanest writeup we've seen of why "installs" is the most dangerous number in mobile advertising: a bot farm found his $220 budget, Google billed him for it, and the ad algorithm rewarded the fraud at every step. Nick
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Meta's fix for its prying assistant is a prompt rewrite, and that is the tell. The suggestion that started this — "Who's the child passenger?" — is gone. The system that assembled a stranger-grade dossier about a woman's children from her own years
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Meta's assistant was caught turning a family's public posts into a dossier — and suggesting the questions itself. Also today: Altman says OpenAI would slow down if rivals do, and a 210M text-to-image model publishes its training recipe, measurements included. Meta is changing the prompts
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Anthropic is facing a refiled class action over Claude Max pricing — and the plaintiffs' side is staffed like an FTC case, which is exactly what makes it dangerous. A refiled class action accuses Anthropic of overselling Claude's Max plan with "usage multipliers" that don'
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Meta's consumer agent is climbing the charts — but the pace says more than the rank. Also today: IDScan confirms the breach behind 153 million stolen license scans, and Qualcomm says the next Snapdragon runs 30B-parameter models on the phone. Meta's consumer agent Muse has reached
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India's Pocket FM says its annualized revenue run rate has doubled to $500 million, and AI is doing most of the production work behind it. CEO Rohan Nayak told TechCrunch that AI now powers 93% of the platform's catalog and 99% of new content — built on
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AI made filing a complaint nearly free, and public systems built on friction are now finding out what that does to their workload. Plus: a $1 billion bet on taking data centers off the grid, and a robotics startup stepping out of stealth with $100 million — and robots already on
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A million-user desktop agent just opened its logs, and the numbers say agent adoption is nothing like the chatbot curve. Also: OpenAI takes its newsroom AI program to Ukraine. China's first office-agent behavior report is out, and usage is extremely top-heavy. Published in Beijing on
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Two stories worth your Sunday night: a Swiss bank has quietly turned AI fluency into an entry requirement, and OpenAI published the first real numbers on how far its own researchers have handed their work to agents. UBS will now ask graduate and intern candidates in global banking and markets