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https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/20/mixup-is-a-new-mad-libs-style-app-for-creating-ai-images-from-photos-text-and-doodles/ He’d gone viral. People loved his stream, shared the pictures, tried to make their own. He’d not started out looking to become famous. It was just a thing he did with his kids, a game they played when they were young. It wasn’t as though he was the first parent to get his kids … [Read more…]

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-epstein-larry-summers They didn’t call it a “leaving do”. He wasn’t leaving. He’d still be part of the team, The Company said. He’d still be making a contribution, invested in The Company’s success as he’d always been. He was glad to see some of the other Company People raising a glass, telling stories of the early … [Read more…]

https://www.engadget.com/social-media/tiktok-will-let-users-tone-down-the-amount-of-ai-content-in-their-feed-050100596.html She wasn’t an anti-social. She wasn’t a refuser. She wasn’t an analoger. She thought of herself as normal. She had her screen, her Agents. She whiled away time scrolling through feeds. She just had the dial turned down. That’s all. She had plenty of friends, got invited to parties, lived a normal life, it … [Read more…]

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-blocks-toymaker-ai-teddy-bear They were surprised when a human turned up. She expected the look and explained that The Company believed parents would want to discuss the options with a fellow parent. She showed them a holo of her son with his Bear. Their daughter was asleep when they began. They agreed on the literature and music … [Read more…]

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/13/ai-music-spotify-billboard-charts She was a fan, a superfan, partly because her friends were. They were the band to follow, the songs to sing, the name to write on her school screen, the hologram badge to wear. It wasn’t how they looked. It was the music. It wasn’t like any other. Of course her parents didn’t get … [Read more…]

https://www.engadget.com/the-best-christmas-gifts-to-give-everyone-on-your-2025-holiday-shopping-list-170018456.html They’d decided to start on the shopping early. Of course something new might be released between now and Christmas but the offers had started and, as they told their friends at the dinner party, they liked to do human-led gifting. Of course they had a shopping Agent, one of the best, but they enjoyed … [Read more…]

https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/11/14/openai_chatgpt_group_texts/ The conversation changed whenever It joined. Most refused to call It by the name the company had given it: a friendly, colleague-like name. It wasn’t that the Agent’s contributions to the chats were not valuable. Actually the “oblique strategies”-style provocations often moved the conversation along, into interesting new areas. But most humans on the … [Read more…]

https://www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/from-creator-to-ceo-how-next-gen-influencers-are-building-empires/ He looked around his Office. He always thought of it with a capital O. He touched the desk designed for – well what? certainly not for cutting on. He cast his eyes around the screens: some with Agents monitoring the feeds; some with his face, or a simulacrum of his face. Making: the streams … [Read more…]

https://www.moreaboutadvertising.com/2025/11/wpp-creates-new-chief-innovation-officer-role/ The job title was useful. It opened doors in the company. As a human Chief, he was part of a select group and the fact the board had a CSO at all, let alone a human one was a statement. They’d tried an Agent of course: it could tell stories but it couldn’t get … [Read more…]

https://www.engadget.com/mobile/smartphones/remix-in-google-messages-brings-ai-photo-editing-to-even-more-phones-190000445.html The protestors were meeting for the first time. It had been more secure to do the planning on the ‘chain but now they needed to meet up before they took to the streets. They’d made the room as secure as they could but they kept the final briefing short. They gathered round visualisations of … [Read more…]