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Meta launches an open-weight AI model that runs on Macs · AI-Generated Hot Girls Are Ripping Off Comedians to Boost…
No editor's note for this day — the brief below was assembled automatically from the 28 stories our 7 sources published, clustered by how many outlets ran each one.
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AI-Generated Hot Girls Are Ripping Off Comedians to Boost Their Horny Content
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The brief above is what changed. Here is the rest of the wire — 21 more stories from 7 outlets, in the order they landed.
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- Oct 16
- Love is infrastructure MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
- Can’t bear to say goodbye to your pet? Biotech’s got you covered. MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
- Kids are outsmarting social media bans. That’s not a problem we need to solve. MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
- Oct 15
- When it came to Cal AI’s viral success, a small army of influencers paid off TechCrunch
- ChatGPT can peek at your Chrome tabs now The Verge
- Sega pulls Total War: Shogun 2 remaster from sale following disastrous launch The Verge
- The tech backlash is now in theaters The Verge
- We Got Hot and Heavy With Meta’s Muse—and Baffled by Apple’s HomeView Wired
- AI Hacks Leave a Mess That AI Companies Aren’t Paying For Wired
- Granite Switch 4.1: Chat, Decisions, and Speech from One Endpoint Hugging Face
- Amazon devices chief Panos Panay sees a future where AI devices replace the need to use apps TechCrunch
- Report: FTC probes Anthropic, OpenAI after Trump dismissed AI fears as “hoax” Ars Technica
- Singer or clanker? YouTube Music will tell you with new gen AI labeling. Ars Technica
- Welcome FLUX.3 Image Klein in Diffusers Hugging Face
- Oct 14
- Epic says its new vibe-coded Epic Games Launcher is faster than Steam Ars Technica
- AI Came for Math. Now It’s Chasing the Rest of Science Wired
- Researchers use AI to design proteins that cut up other proteins Ars Technica
- Oct 13
- Google DeepMind’s New Resident Philosopher Tackles AI Ethics IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
- Oct 12
- Meet the Anthropic Engineer Keeping Its AI Agent Trustworthy IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
- Learning to Play Like a Pro: Adaptive Motion Planning and Tracking for Humanoid Robots IEEE Spectrum · content.knowledgehub.wiley.com
- Oct 9
- Master AI Chip Principles With New IEEE Design Program IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
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