Nilay Patel

The Washington Post has a story about Mark Zuckerberg’s recent fashionbro glow-up, and I can’t stop laughing at this bananas grant of anonymity for what amounts to a stan quote — my italics added for emphasis:

Google rolled out ads in its AI-powered search overviews today, but it doesn’t appear the system is any better at understanding what it’s actually saying. As flagged on Threads, it suggests turning off the forward collision-avoidance feature on the Kia Telluride by disabling electronic stability control, which is a dangerous idea for most drivers. (I did the same search and got a similar AI search summary.)

He’s also removed about 78 percent of X’s value since he bought it. (You all know what I’m going to say.)

Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth doesn’t reveal anything particularly new here, but I do love looking at prototypes. There’s much more detail in Alex Heath’s Orion hands-on — perhaps most importantly that Meta doesn’t plan to use these expensive silicon carbide lenses whenever it does produce an actual AR product.

Meta was using Brady’s face for a goofy and now-discontinued chatbot character program, so maybe he’s just mad about that. No explaining why Kristen Bell, who is part of a current Meta celebrity AI product, also fell for it, though.