You might be feeling déjà vu. A decade ago, companies like Google and Apple made promises that their respective voice assistants could complete tasks on…
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Ailias Lets You Commission Your Own Personal Talking Man in a Box
It’s the classic awkward icebreaker: If you could invite anyone, dead or alive, to a dinner party, who would it be? Aristotle? Ailias is a…
AI Will Never Be Conscious
The Blake Lemoine incident is remembered today as a high‑water mark of AI hype. It thrust the whole idea of conscious AI into public awareness…
Uncanny Valley: AI Researcher Resignations, Bots Hiring Humans, Evie Magazine’s Party
This week, Zoë Schiffer dives into why some researchers at top AI companies have been resigning and publicly voicing their concerns about AI safety. Brian…
How to Hide Google’s AI Overviews From Your Search Results
Going online in 2026 means subjecting yourself to a relentless bombardment of generative AI tools. How about a few AI agents to get you started?…
AI Safety Meets the War Machine
When Anthropic last year became the first major AI company cleared by the US government for classified use—including military applications—the news didn’t make a major…
Could AI Data Centers Be Moved to Outer Space?
Here ε is the emissivity of the object—how effective it is as a radiator (0 < ε < 1), σ is the Stefan-Boltzmann constant, A…
The Search Engine for OnlyFans Models Who Look Like Your Crush
For three days in February, porn star Alix Lynx flew to Miami for her first exclusive creator gathering where she was in full grind mode:…
Perplexity’s Retreat From Ads Signals a Bigger Strategic Shift
Perplexity is abandoning plans to put ads in its AI search product as the industry looks for sustainable business models that won’t hurt user trust.…