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Stockholm let an AI run a caf" and it immediately ordered 3, 000 gloves
1+ hour, 28+ min ago (429+ words) There's a caf" in Stockholm currently being managed by an AI agent, and the early results are kinda chaotic. Andon Caf", launched by Andon Labs, handed operational control to an AI manager named Mona. The system oversees ordering, supplier communication,…...
'Taxi Driver' writer Paul Schrader pitches sequel with Travis Bickle AI Girlfriend
4+ day, 1+ hour ago (157+ words) Paul Schrader is staring into the void again, this time, a digital one. The Taxi Driver screenwriter has floated a surreal sequel idea where Travis Bickle, cinema's most infamous lonely man, gets an AI girlfriend. The concept emerged from a…...
Google's "Remy' leak points to a future beyond chatbots
6+ day, 18+ hour ago (378+ words) There's been a steady stream of chatter around Google this week, off the back of a leaked internal project codenamed "Remy," first reported by Business Insider. From what's been shared, Remy looks like a clear step away from standard chatbot…...
The government is putting $105. 9 million into AI to speed up housing approvals
2+ week, 56+ min ago (237+ words) In Tuesday's federal budget, the plan is to bring a new AI tool into the housing approvals process " something that helps developers move through environmental checks without getting stuck in the usual bottlenecks." A $105. 9 million investment over four years will…...
Tik Tok AI pulled after Charli D'Amelio 'blueberry' video
2+ week, 3+ day ago (303+ words) Tik Tok is scaling back a new artificial intelligence feature after it started confidently misreading videos in ways that made users question whether the technology was analysing content'or just guessing. The feature, called "AI overviews," was meant to summarise videos,…...
On our radar this week: 13 emerging artists quietly putting in the hours
2+ week, 3+ day ago (284+ words) We get sent a lot of music every week, most of it comes and goes pretty quickly. But every now and then, there's a'batch'that sticks for the right reasons. It's a mix of lo-fi shoegaze out of regional WA, self-produced…...
Watch this humanoid robot break routine and hug a student mid-performance
2+ week, 4+ day ago (230+ words) A humanoid robot breaking formation mid-performance to hug a student sounds like a headline built for the internet, but it actually played out at Xi'an Eurasia University in late April. The moment unfolded during a choreographed routine at a campus…...
Credit where credit's due " Jason Derulo v. Matthew Spatola copyright trial
2+ week, 4+ day ago (409+ words) Jason Derulo stepped onto the stand to testify yesterday (May 5), with Matthew Spatola's lawyer gearing up to counter Derulo's claim that Spatola "created nothing' on the 2020 chart-topper, "Savage Love'. With its accolades spanning globally, including number 1 on the Billboard Hot…...
UX is everything: Chat GPT's coding agent just got pets that are actually useful
2+ week, 6+ day ago (401+ words) It sounds like just another vibe coding gimmick at first, but Open AI's latest update to Codex adds something surprisingly practical: desktop "pets" that act as live status trackers while your AI works in the background. If you've ever kicked…...
Chat GPT is rating faces " here's the prompt everyone's using
3+ week, 44+ min ago (279+ words) There's a new Chat GPT prompt doing the rounds, and it's turning quick selfies into surprisingly detailed "face reports" If your brain's still buffering after the weekend, this is about as low-effort as it gets. We're talking symmetry, proportions, bone…...