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Emma Roth
Emma Roth
The problem with custom AI chatbots.

While it might be fun to interact with Character.AI’s user-created chatbots, a report from Wired shows the challenges of taking down chatbots that impersonate people without their consent, including a teen who was murdered in 2006:

Given that Character.AI can sometimes take a week to investigate and remove a persona that violates the platform’s terms, a bot can still operate for long enough to upset someone whose likeness is being used. But it might not be enough for a person to claim real “harm” from a legal perspective, experts say.

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Charles Pulliam-Moore
Sony’s Until Dawn movie debuts next April.

Though Supermassive’s Until Dawn was already plenty cinematic as a video game, Deadline reports that Screen Gems plans for its big screen adaptation of the horror classic to hit theaters on April 25, 2025.

The feature comes from director David F. Sandberg and writer Gary Dauberman. Ella Rubin, Michael Cimino, Ji-young Yoo, Belmont Cameli, Odessa A’zion, Maia Mitchell and Peter Stormare are set to star.

Wes Davis
Wes Davis
Is Intel’s Lunar Lake CPU about to show up in a Surface laptop?

A Reddit user spotted a Microsoft Surface Laptop outfitted with Intel’s next-gen ARM competitor on a Chinese website called Goofish, Windows Central reports.

The outlet says its sources confirmed that Microsoft is testing the chip in a Surface, but that it’s not clear if it’s the Surface Laptop 7 or a future version of the machine.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
IT’S SO CUTE.

Mastodon is selling a plushie version of its elephant mascot, and it’s adorable. You can buy it now for $45. (It comes in “Federation Beige,” lol.)

A photo of the Mastodon plushie on a camping chair.
Image: Mastodon
Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
A second Sphere is coming to Abu Dhabi.

It turns out the $2 billion Las Vegas Sphere was never meant to be a one-off. Sphere Entertainment has announced that it’s working with Abu Dhabi’s Department of Culture and Tourism to build another one.

Although an exact location and timeline weren’t revealed, Abu Dhabi’s Sphere will be as large as the Vegas one, which is wrapped in a 580,000-square-foot screen.

The Sphere in Las Vegas
Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
YouTube is testing “AI-enhanced” suggestions for comment replies.

Could be a helpful way to for creators to more easily reply to comments from their audience. The test is small right now and available only on the mobile app, according to a post about the test.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Riot is laying off 32 staffers.

Riot Games’ Marc Merrill announced the layoffs, and spokesperson Joe Hixson shared the number affected with The Verge. The layoffs are focused on the League of Legends team.

“While team effectiveness is more important than team size, the League team will eventually be even larger than it is today as we develop the next phase of League,” Merrill says. Riot announced cuts affecting more than 500 people in January.

A screenshot of some of Marc Merrill’s post about the layoffs.
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Screenshot by Jay Peters / The Verge