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The launch of an AI image editing feature on xAI’s Grok has caused chaos on X…

The MAGA-approved video of an ICE killing

The clips are filmed from different angles. Some are zoomed in, making them indecipherably grainy, and…

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Some years ago, I was writing a science fiction short story in which I wanted to…

Honey: all the news about PayPal’s alleged scam coupon app

PayPal’s Honey browser extension has been lauded for years as an easy way to find coupons…

TikTok ban: all the news on the app’s shutdown and return in the US

After briefly going dark in the US to comply with the divest-or-ban law targeting ByteDance that…

Trump admin threatens retaliation against Spotify and others over EU tech regulation

US Trade Representative: The European Union and certain EU Member States have persisted in a continuing…

Trump signs AI executive order pushing to ban state laws

On Thursday evening, with White House AI and crypto czar David Sacks looking over his shoulder,…

New York’s new law forces advertisers to say when they’re using AI avatars

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a bill Thursday that will require advertisers to identify if…