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Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
Pro-Trump AI influencers are flooding social media.

The New York Times has found hundreds of fake accounts on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook that appear to be a pre-midterm push to get conservative voters to the polls in support of Trump’s agenda. The accounts often use the same captions and awkward phrasing.

It’s not clear who created the A.I. accounts, and determining whether they are the product of a hired content farm, a foreign influence operation, an experiment or something else is difficult, experts said. They all agree, however, that creating such avatars is becoming easier, especially for contractors and marketing companies that now specialize in developing and dispatching A.I. avatars in bulk for increasingly low prices.

Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
Tonight’s Coachella schedule kicks off with Kacey Musgraves.

Last week we got special guest, Jack White. This week it’s Musgraves who gets that honor, after releasing the title track from her upcoming album Middle of Nowhere, the second single after “Dry Spell.” This weekend’s livestream replaces the stage with Yuma. That means no Model / Actriz or Drain, but you do get Armin van Buuren and a solo Boys Noize set. Watch here.

Coachella livestream schedule for April 18, 2026.
Image: Coachella / Goldenvoice
Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
Did YouTube killing music videos make Hollywood boring?

YouTuber Patrick Willems has argued that movies look objectively worse than they did 25 years ago. Digital cameras and an overreliance on CGI are factors. But he also argues that YouTube killed off the music video-to-Hollywood pipeline, starving the industry of inventive visual stylists.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Slay the Spire II’s roadmap teases a new character.

And a whole lot more, including alternate versions of Acts 2 and 3, Steam Workshop support, and “experimental game modes.” The game got its first major update for all players on Thursday.

The game is a big hit, selling three million copies a week after its March launch, and I can tell you from personal experience that it’s a blast with a friend.

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Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
Artemis II commander says a lunar landing is “absolutely doable, and it’s doable soon.”

During a press conference on Thursday, astronaut Reid Wiseman said if Artemis II had a lander, “at least three of my crewmates would have been in it trying to land on the Moon.”

“If you had given us the keys to the lander, we would’ve taken it down and landed on that moon.”

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Meta is reportedly planning to lay off thousands of workers in May.

The job cuts could affect around 10 percent of Meta’s workforce, or around 8,000 employees, according to Reuters. This is reportedly the first of two waves of layoffs planned for this year, and follows an earlier report from Reuters that suggests Meta could cut as much as 20 percent of its workforce.