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https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/05/06/google_releases_simplify/ They’d been given homework. He wasn’t pleased but he’d agreed to the couples therapy and so he kept his views to himself and his Agent. That was the problem, his partner would probably say. They both had to keep diaries. His partner had decided to go material. The therapist… Read the rest

https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/05/google-is-making-tv-and-movies-to-convince-you-that-tech-is-not-evil/ The Studio had created a massive gate for fans. They’d even written “Hollywood” across it. Of course The Studio didn’t take up a huge lot with soundstages and warehouses full of props and the gate wasn’t “real”. Technically The Studio was in California. The tax and tariffs refund meant… Read the rest

https://www.thedrum.com/news/2025/05/02/christian-muche-miami-the-pink-suited-power-broker-rewriting-the-rules-b2b-events He was a human. He always said that in interviews, made sure the feeds led with it. He was literally the face of the events. Of course he had Agents working for him, he told interviews, but he was human, proof humans were still in the loop, he laughed.… Read the rest

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/technology/google-gemini-ai-chatbot-kids.html Apparently long ago kids used to hide things from their parents. Things long forgotten like magazines, cigarettes, tapes of unsuitable music. She’d heard kids hid them under the mattress. When devices came in it was simpler. They just had encrypted folders, hidden apps. One device with multiple faces: one… Read the rest

https://www.ft.com/content/bd5f2713-9af1-4306-b4d4-0320da9e878b The company had devolved its programme. It was now everyone’s job to take one. Every senior human had a bright, keen recruit from the best universities. Every boss had to get their often over-enthusiastic “puppies” (as they called them on the unofficial feeds) to fit in, to work their… Read the rest

https://www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/david-banner-reveals-how-brands-can-crack-the-cultural-code/ They’d tried massive Generative models. They’d tried small-scale Agents. They’d tried paying people to use them. They’d tried installing them in games and shopping malls, even books. They’d tried creating sexy gadgets to lure people to take AI out with them. They had massive data. But it always eluded… Read the rest

https://hyperallergic.com/1007981/the-siren-issue-2/ They’d underwritten his campaign. They’d swung their businesses and customers behind the candidate or The Leader as he called himself now. It wasn’t the money. The Movement didn’t need money from them – although their crypto speculation had been welcomed. Their real value to him was in their Intelligence.… Read the rest

https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/04/29/metas_standalone_ai_app/ We’ve been together a long time. Since school really. Of course She’s changed, like me. We’ve both grown up. I guess I’ve been updated too. She’s been there with me doing homework, that time I was getting all probably active… for a while. And of course She’s been my… Read the rest

https://www.engadget.com/general/theres-a-massive-power-outage-cross-spain-portugal-and-parts-of-france-183025048.html It was dark. At first there was just shock. A moment when they just looked out of their window to see if it was just them. It wasn’t. Then there were fruitless checks to see if anything was working. Switching on and off. Shock gave way to annoyance. The… Read the rest

https://www.marketing-interactive.com/skechers-launches-ai-stylist-luna-to-reinvent-shopping Books were back. Real books. Material books. For some it was a political choice. The boycotts had spread with some publicly smashing their readers while others simply put them in a drawer. But the main reason was class, status. Books had become a symbol again. A public symbol. People… Read the rest