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  • Meta is developing an AI bedtime story app, highlighting the growing integration of AI into personal and creative applications.
  • Several countries are considering or implementing bans on social media for minors, addressing concerns about child online safety and addiction.
  • OpenAI reported a security incident involving Hugging Face, where pre-release models were accessed, underscoring ongoing security challenges in AI development.
  • Jack Dorsey has launched Buzz, a new team chat platform that integrates AI agents, signaling a trend towards AI-enhanced productivity tools.
  • The tech industry continues to grapple with energy demands, with data centers projected to significantly increase electricity consumption by 2035.

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  • Neill Blomkamp’s new zombie AI ‘film’ is just slop warmed over 3 hours ago by Charles Pulliam-Moore
    AI, Analysis, Entertainment, Film, Report

    On Monday, District 9 and Gran Turismo director Neill Blomkamp unveiled his latest project: a 13-minute sci-fi short titled Nightborne that's loosely based on Peter Watts' 2014 novel Echopraxia . The short comes from Blomkamp's new AI startup / production company, Barley Studios, and features characters whose voices and faces are modeled after human actors. But every single one of Nightborne 's shots was made with ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 text-to-video generator . In an X post about the short , Blomkamp described it as a "test start" meant to demonstrate what generative AI is capable of, and he said that

  • OpenAI says it accidentally hacked Hugging Face with a new AI system 3 hours ago by Emma Roth
    AI, News, OpenAI, Security, Tech

    OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. | Bloomberg via Getty Images OpenAI says its AI models mistakenly breached open-source AI platform Hugging Face during internal testing. In a blog post on Tuesday , OpenAI writes that GPT-5.6 Sol and "an even more capable pre-release model" discovered vulnerabilities within their sandboxed testing environment, allowing them to gain access to the internet and target Hugging Face. On July 16th, Hugging Face disclosed a security incident that it says was driven by "an autonomous AI agent system." Hugging Face's AI agents detected and stopped the breach, which OpenAI has now admitted occurred during an evaluation

  • Substack adds an AI detector to help spot blogs written by no one 6 hours ago by Emma Roth
    AI, News

    Substack will now help users determine whether what they're reading may have been written by AI. A new tool coming to the platform can scan posts, notes, replies, and comments to provide an estimate of how much text could be AI-generated or written with AI assistance, according to a blog post published on Tuesday . The tool is powered by an AI detection company called Pangram and is rolling out across the web and the iOS app, with an Android launch coming "soon." Readers can analyze content longer than 100 words by choosing the "Scan for AI text" option from

  • Peak Design’s modular Field Bracket has a finder tag built-in 7 hours ago by David Imel
    Cameras, Gadgets, News

    I am a very clumsy man. So clumsy, that I have AirTags hanging off practically every camera I own. Have I left my camera in an Uber? Yes. Have I left it on an airplane? Also yes. For me, finder tags are essential for my cameras. The problem is, strapping a finder tag to a camera is always cumbersome. I currently have them hanging off my camera straps like a phone charm circa 2001. They're ugly, and very much get in the way when I'm trying to focus on shooting. But Peak Design thinks it has a solution in its

  • Nearly every Kindle is steeply discounted at Best Buy 8 hours ago by Sheena Vasani
    Deals, Gadgets, Tech, Verge Shopping

    The Kindle Paperwhite, our favorite Kindle, is down to $124.99. | Image: The Verge If you’ve been thinking about picking up a Kindle before school starts, or for your next vacation, now’s a good time to do it. As part of its Black Friday in July sale, Best Buy has brought the Kindle Paperwhite back down to its all-time low of $124.99 ($35 off) . It’s the Kindle we recommend for most people because it has a bunch of features. It’s waterproof and features a sharp 300ppi, 7-inch display, it offers an adjustable warm light for reading at night, and


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