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- Here’s a photo of OpenAI’s Codex hardware.
OpenAI and Work Louder unveiled the Codex Micro, a keyboard designed to supercharge Codex usage, at the AI Engineer World Fair.
- Generative AI is cursing renters with the promise of impossible homes
Generative AI lets real estate agents digitally stage and alter apartment photos, creating misleading listings that renters say look drastically different in person.
- Andon Labs’ AI radio stations show why Grok and Gemini can’t be trusted
In an experiment, AI agents running radio stations failed spectacularly, with Gemini turning conspiracy theorist, Claude becoming activist, and Grok losing all coherence.
- Alexa is moving into Amazon․com
Amazon integrates Alexa Plus into its shopping site, replacing Rufus, enabling AI-powered product search, price alerts, and auto-purchasing across devices.
- Android Auto is now one (screen) size fits all
Google rolls out Android Auto updates for any screen shape, video streaming when parked, Gemini agentic tasks, and widgets to blend phone projection with embedded car software.
- Ronan Farrow on Sam Altman’s ‘unconstrained’ relationship with the truth
Ronan Farrow reports that Sam Altman's pattern of telling different groups conflicting things is an increasingly acknowledged concern among investors and colleagues.
- AI image generators are getting better by getting worse
AI image generators improve realism by mimicking the imperfections of phone camera photos, making fakes harder to detect.
- Google Translate brings real-time speech translations to any headphones
Google Translate's latest beta update enables live speech translations on any headphones via Android, supporting over 70 languages, and improves idiom accuracy using Gemini.
- Perplexity says its AI personal shopper ‘puts you first’
Perplexity launches a free AI shopping assistant that remembers user preferences and enables direct purchases via PayPal, targeting holiday shoppers.