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Apple’s plot to crush OpenAI
Apple has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, and The Verge’s Vergecast podcast examines what might really be driving the legal action. Hosts Nilay Patel and David Pierce discuss whether Apple’s complaint reflects genuine concern about OpenAI as a competitive threat, or an opportunistic move to capitalise on a period of perceived weakness for the AI…
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China’s Moonshot AI claims Kimi K3 can rival OpenAI and Anthropic
The company has unveiled a massive new artificial intelligence model it says can take on top American firms.
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Fox News AI Newsletter: IBM’s AI warning sends ‘shockwave’
This is a roundup from Fox News’ Artificial Intelligence newsletter, covering several separate AI-related stories rather than a single event. The lead item is IBM’s share price falling by more than 23% at Tuesday’s market open, reigniting doubts about whether firms are getting sufficient near-term returns on their AI investment. Other items in the digest…
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Guerilla bus stop ads are taking aim at Meta’s AI glasses, and the latest stunt involves a horrifying They Live-style transforming image of Kylie Jenner
A new guerrilla advertising campaign has appeared at bus stops criticising Meta’s AI-powered smart glasses, with the latest instalment featuring a poster of Kylie Jenner designed to visually “transform” in a manner reminiscent of John Carpenter’s cult film They Live. The stunt is part of a wider, ongoing series of unofficial street ads targeting Meta’s…
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AI spam filters are getting suckered by old-school text salting
Cybersecurity firm Barracuda has found that a decades-old email trick called “text salting” is successfully fooling some AI-powered spam filters, allowing large volumes of phishing messages to reach inboxes undetected. The technique, long used to defeat traditional secure email gateways, works by hiding harmless-looking filler words within a malicious email in ways invisible to human…
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Lorde Slams ‘Inaccurate’ Spotify AI Song Descriptions of ‘Current Affairs’: ‘We Don’t Want This’
Lorde has publicly criticised Spotify’s new AI-generated “About the Song” feature after it produced an inaccurate description of her track “Current Affairs” from her 2025 album Virgin. In an Instagram Story, the singer argued that reducing songs to AI-generated interpretations at the point of listening restricts fans’ freedom to form their own meaning, and she…
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Patreon stops asking AI bots not to scrape — and starts blocking them
Patreon has moved from politely asking AI companies not to scrape its content to actively blocking AI training bots, working with Cloudflare to enforce the crackdown. The shift matters because it marks a hardening of stance among content platforms towards generative AI firms, reflecting growing frustration that voluntary opt-out signals are being ignored while newer…
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No, Modern Warfare 4’s Gunny loadout assistant isn’t a chatbot, but its developer is using AI elsewhere
PC Gamer reports that Modern Warfare 4’s Gunny loadout assistant is not a chatbot, despite possible assumptions that it uses conversational AI. The distinction matters because it clarifies how the game’s support feature works while highlighting wider concerns about AI’s growing role in game development. The article says Gunny is intended to help players choose…
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Apple dethrones Nvidia to regain title of world’s most valuable company
Apple overtook Nvidia on Friday to reclaim the title of world’s most valuable company, marking a notable shift in investor sentiment towards artificial intelligence stocks. Nvidia had held the top spot for nearly a year after becoming the first company to pass a $5tn valuation in October, but its shares fell 3.5% while Apple’s held…
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OpenAI’s collab mini keeb has optional ‘yeet’ and ‘yolo’ buttons, which is totally lit my fellow rizz lords, no cap
The article text supplied for this piece consists almost entirely of PC Gamer’s website navigation, membership and newsletter sign-up boilerplate, with no actual article body about the product. Based on the headline, the piece appears to cover a compact (“mini”) mechanical keyboard produced in collaboration with OpenAI, which includes optional novelty keys programmed with internet…