AI

As San Francisco sellers start trading houses for AI stock, you might wonder whether someone out there is trying to run the housing crisis all over again.

OpenAI is hosting another livestream on Thursday at 1pm ET, where it’s teasing the following:

After nine straight quarters of growth, worldwide PC shipments dropped by 4.9 percent year-over-year, according to IDC. The research firm places the blame for the decline squarely on the memory chip shortage driven by the AI arms race.

Go to your profile in the Instagram app and open the hamburger menu in the top right corner. Scroll down to “sharing and reuse,” then toggle off the sliders for “allow people to create with and reuse your content” for Posts and Reels. Then, below that, also turn off “allow people to create and reuse your original audio on Meta AI.”

AI data center projects are continuing to pop up across the US, with frequent opposition from locals concerned about their impact. Here are a few recent articles about the projects:

Google’s Video Remix feature, running on Gemini Omni, adds new editing options like “cinematic relighting,” custom backgrounds, and “artistic treatments” such as watercolor and sketchbook effects. The AI video editing templates are rolling out starting today for Google AI Plus, Pro, and Ultra subscribers.

Business Insider reported that the project is focused on improving Alexa AI enough to handle more advanced, multi-step tasks, like Google, OpenAI and other AI leaders have been, but internal documents show its steep cost.

It kicks off at 1PM ET. We’ll have to see if the new voice mode works better than the old one.

The Trump administration has given OpenAI’s GPT 5.6 model suite announced on June 26th the green light for public launch, according to Axios. Sol is the flagship, Terra a medium-tier model for “high-volume work,” and Luna is the “fast and affordable” everyday model.

Joshua Achiam, who recently testified in the Musk v. Altman trial, wrote on X that there was “not a specific reason for me leaving, or a specific reason for why now. But it’s something I have been thinking of for a while … it feels possible to work on the mission from outside the walls of a frontier lab.” He added, “The future of humanity depends on the choices we make together about AGI and superintelligence.”

Unlike Notion’s main notetaking app, the new Notion Agents app on iOS is specifically for chatting with your custom AI agents or connected AI models like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude, 9to5Mac reports. Notion says you can use it to ask your agents questions or capture text, photos, and voice notes.

Reddit is clamping down on spammy AI activity, a problem that is definitely not, in any way, shape, or form, a problem of Reddit’s own making.

Memory chip demand by AI datacenters continues to be very good for Samsung, and some of its workers who are eligible for average annual bonuses of $340,000 this year. Per Reuters:

The company formerly known as xAI has referred to itself as SpaceXAI before following the acquisition by SpaceX. There’s a new logo, too.

The gen AI psyop known as Tilly Norwood is reportedly going to be in a movie produced by Particle 6. Put more plainly: the company that created Tilly Norwood in the first place is making an elaborate commercial about one of its products.

In hopes of winning its ongoing legal battle with Disney, Universal, and Warner Bros. Discovery Midjourney is trying to force the studios to reveal the extent to which they use artificial intelligence internally. This would establish whether “they are doing exactly what they are suing Midjourney for doing.”

Governor JB Pritzker signed SB 315 on Monday, as first reported by CBS News. The “Artificial Intelligence Safety Measures Act,” passed in May, follows similar bills in New York and California aimed at improving AI transparency and safety, and will require independent third-party audits at AI companies.

TeraWulf, the crypto mining company turned AI infrastructure provider, expects to earn $19 billion in revenue from the agreement, according to an announcement on Monday. The Hawesville, KY data center will come online with an “initial capacity” in the second half of 2027 before ramping up to 401 megawatts of power delivery in 2028.

The company says its AI-powered spam detection tools are blocking 23 million spam views each day, while catching around 25,000 new “spammy posts and comments,” and revoking nearly 2 million “inauthentic votes.” Reddit is also working to combat “coordinated patterns of fake behavior and artificial hype,” which we’ve seen with AI systems trying to game AI search results.

Tomorrow you can buy a Tom Ford jacket worn by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang at auction, but you might have stiff competition in the bidding.

Rossmann tried to replace his dead 4TB 990 Pro under warranty. Samsung sent the dead drive back, claiming it worked. Then it said the drive was out of stock (even though it’s not). I’m sure the fact that the 990 Pro now sells for over $900 instead of the $330 Rossmann paid has nothing to do with it.

Zac Bowden at Windows Central posted this video of Aion, a stripped-down Windows concept made for agentic AI that popped up on the BetaWiki Discord, and says sources have confirmed to him that it is a real video made in 2024.

Elon Musk and Joe Lonsdale are doing their best to make sure “the high-tech future will have to be built in a way that blends church, state and market, to the benefit of those most able to seize public resources and turn them to private profit.” The extractive world of today’s technology — harvesting your data and attention, among other things — has created the Texan Ideology.

Starting September 15th, Cloudflare will block bots that scrape ad-supported websites for search indexing and AI training at the same time. The goal is to encourage AI companies to separate their crawlers for different purposes, giving publishers more control over which ones to allow into their websites.

Made by Weave Robotics, Issac 1 is a fuzzy, colorful home robot that promises to collect dirty clothes, fold and put away laundry, make beds, and tidy clutter. Shipping is slated for later this year, with a $250 deposit required. While its main tasks are automated, Weave says that, like its predecessor Isaac 0, Issac 1 will be teleoperated “when needed to guarantee we complete tasks.”

A post on the Claude X account featured a video announcement. The reinstatement was announced last night, alongside a blog post by Anthropic about the weekslong negotiation process leading up to it.

This report from Reuters says 34-year-old Michael Lines alleges that conversations with OpenAI’s now-retired GPT-4o model eventually pushed him to attempt suicide. He overdosed on drugs, but survived.