AI

The Oura Advisor chatbot will soon be able to offer smart ring wearers an AI model that it says covers “the full reproductive health spectrum, from early menstrual cycles through menopause.” Of course, reproductive health data is sensitive, particularly in places like the US — you might want to think carefully before handing it over.

After buying millions of Nvidia’s AI chips last week, Meta has now also signed a multi-year agreement to buy six gigawatts worth of AMD processors for AI data centers. The deal could see Meta owning 10 percent of AMD’s stock, and follows a similar agreement between AMD and OpenAI.

Look, it’s never nice to laugh at someone’s misfortune. But when a Meta AI safety researcher puts on a public demonstration of AI safety risks using their personal email as collateral, I think we should all take a moment to enjoy it.

That’s the WhatsApp message Meta safety and alignment researcher Summer Yue sent her AI agent while “watching it speedrun deleting [her] inbox.” Despite the various reasons not to connect OpenClaw to your actual data, apparently, she felt confident based on its results with her toy inbox and moved it to her actual Gmail.

The Information reports on OpenAI’s rocky $500 billion partnership with Oracle and SoftBank, which “has not staffed up and is not developing any of OpenAI’s data centers.”

The in-development feature reported by @nima_owji shows a toggle that allows users to disclose synthetically made or manipulated content. The move may be in response to India ordering social platforms to embrace provenance systems like C2PA, a standard that X abandoned after Elon Musk stepped in.

“If your best idea for what AI can do in the workspace is ‘replace a hundred human beings with a server rack doing the same thing’, you’ve got no business calling yourself a techno-optimist.” Let’s gooooo!

The big shakeup at Xbox means that Asha Sharma is taking over for Phil Spencer as CEO of Microsoft Gaming. Her previous role at Microsoft was AI-focused, and here’s what she has to say about utilizing AI for games:

The “conversational” assistant was announced for phones last month, after a rollout on TVs, and is now available in the One UI 8.5 beta in the US and a few other countries. Expect to hear more about it, and its full release plans, at next week’s Unpacked.

After a previously-announced $100 billion deal went “on ice,” as The Wall Street Journal reported, Nvidia is nearing a $30 billion equity investment as part of a larger funding round, the Financial Times reports. The investment might be tied up as soon as this weekend.

Adthena, an “AI search intelligence” platform, has spotted ads in ChatGPT, and they can apparently trigger as soon as after your first prompt.

Gemini 3.1 Pro is rolling out starting today in the Gemini app and NotebookLM. According to Google:

YouTube is starting to test its conversational AI tool with a “small group of users” on smart TVs, gaming consoles, and streaming devices. The tool, first introduced in 2023, lets you ask questions about the videos you’re watching.

Chatbots could bring back the golden age of search spam, as one BBC journalist found after publishing a blog post about his (fake) hot dog eating exploits, which fed right into AI answers. SEO spam is nothing new, but Gemini’s confident attribution to hot dog “reporting” makes things a whole lot worse.

Charles Porch, who helped land Instagram’s biggest partnerships — including the launch of Beyoncé’s self-titled album on the social network — will now serve as OpenAI’s first VP of global creative partnerships.

The funding will go toward Meta’s pro-AI super PACs, including two new ones: Republican-focused “Forge the Future Project” and Democrat-focused “Making Our Tomorrow,” the New York Times reports. The PACs will back politicians who are friendly to AI and push back against legislation that could limit the growth of Meta’s AI business.

Meshcapade’s team will join Epic Games’ AI Research team and contribute to technologies for Unreal Engine and the hyperrealistic MetaHumans.

A new report from 404 Media today featured a leaked email from Ring founder Jamie Siminoff, who leads the camera maker inside Amazon, saying back in October that he has grander ambitions for the company’s controversial Search Party feature beyond just finding lost dogs.

Otherwise, the TikTok parent will face “immediate litigation” for copyright infringement of Netflix’s Stranger Things, KPop Demon Hunters, Squid Game, and Bridgerton franchises: