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Victoria Song
Victoria Song
Snap CEO Evan Spiegel takes shots at the Ray-Ban Meta glasses.

In a podcast with David Senra, Spiegel says, “I think Meta needed to partner with [Essilor]Luxottica because the Meta brand, I think, is not something people want anywhere near their face.” He’s not wrong. I hear that all the time from y’all in my smart glasses coverage — and the facial recognition controversy hasn’t helped.

Elizabeth Lopatto
Elizabeth Lopatto
Recently, someone asked me if Silicon Valley was still into weird sex stuff…

I haven’t been keeping close track of the AI set’s various perversions — maybe they’re into chatbots, idk — but swinging, orgies, and open relationships were a major thing among the Gen X and older Millennial sets out here. Anyway, here’s an anonymous look back at sex in the Valley during the rise of Donald Trump and the #MeToo movement that followed.

I was a Silicon Valley sex pet

[Oakland Review of Books]

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Roblox now has a native PS5 app.

The new app is “smoother and more responsive, with up to 30% faster load times,” Roblox says. Roblox initially came to PS4 and PS5 in October 2023.

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Gemini with Personal Intelligence is rolling out in more regions.

The feature, which allows Gemini to pull information from your Gmail, Google Photos, Search, and YouTube watch history, is now available globally — except in the UK, Switzerland, and the European Economic Area, according to Google spokesperson Elijah Lawal.

Personal Intelligence is coming to Google AI Plus, Pro, and Ultra subscribers in these areas first before launching for free users.

Werner Herzog is in IMAX, on AI, and over 3D

The director made one of the greatest 3D films of all time. He explains why he’ll never do that again.

Kevin Nguyen
Tom Warren
Tom Warren
Microsoft says its latest AI image model is a ‘production workhorse.’

MAI-Image-2-Efficient is debuting on Microsoft Foundry and MAI Playground today, as Microsoft’s “best text-to-image model” yet. It’s essentially a faster and cheaper version of MAI-Image-2 that Microsoft claims is a “production workhorse” for businesses. “Use it when you need volume, speed, and tight cost control — product shots, marketing creatives, UI mockups, branded assets, batch pipelines,” says Microsoft.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Get ready to visit Titanium Court.

The surreal new game won the Seumas McNally Grand Prize at this year’s Independent Games Festival Awards, and now it has a release date of April 23rd on Steam. I highly recommend the demo, it’s excellent.

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