Fortnite developers can make AI characters now — just don't try to date them
Epic's 'conversations' tool lets Fortnite creators build unscripted AI characters via prompts. Real infrastructure shift — with guardrails that may or may not hold.
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John Ternus’s first big problem is AI
Apple names hardware veteran John Ternus as Tim Cook's successor. The announcement doesn't mention AI once — and that silence is the whole story.
Yelp is making its AI chatbot way more useful
Yelp's chatbot upgrade is a data-moat retention play, not a vision statement. The press release is marketing. What ships is the only thing that counts.
xAI announces Grok 5 with native multimodality
xAI launched Grok 5 with multimodal claims and zero verified benchmarks. One announcement, no data. The numbers are the thing.
Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want
A Verge columnist calls out techies rediscovering 1960s linguistics via LLMs. The claims aren't wrong — they're just not discoveries.
OpenAI Loses Sora's Creator After Abandoning the Project
Bill Peebles leaves OpenAI after the company abandoned Sora video generation project, highlighting the human cost of strategic pivots.
Sam Altman's Orb Now Gatekeeping Romance
Tinder partners with Sam Altman's World to offer dating app boosts for users who verify their humanity through iris-scanning orbs.
Anthropic's Cybersecurity Pivot Shows How Principles Meet Pentagon Procurement
Anthropic's cybersecurity model Claude Mythos may repair relations with Trump admin after months of being labeled a security threat for refusing surveillance contracts.
Prediction Markets Want to Replace Journalism While Betting on Its Work
Prediction markets position themselves as journalism's replacement while depending entirely on reporters' work to function.
The Poetry Camera: When AI Becomes Your Aesthetic Conscience
The Poetry Camera replaces human aesthetic response with AI-generated verse, embodying the automation of wonder itself.
Dairy Queen Deploys AI to Upsell Ice Cream While Humans Hide in Manila
Dairy Queen deploys AI drive-thru chatbots built by Presto, continuing the trend of automation disguised as efficiency while human workers remain hidden overseas.
South Korean President Discovers Diplomacy Has Quote-Tweet Function
South Korean President Lee Jae-myung conducts foreign policy through X quote-tweets, sharing misleading video about Israeli-Palestinian conflict.