Landlords have leveled up their deception game: suddenly, those drab, grim apartments online glow with sunlight and sport furniture that looks straight out of a Silicon Valley startup’s lounge. But spoiler alert, what you see is almost never what you get….
Meta has a $16 billion scam problem (or revenue)
Meta would really like you to believe it’s the hero of the internet, bravely battling misinformation, bots, and bad vibes. But according to a new Reuters report, there’s another booming business on Facebook and Instagram, scams, and Meta is making billions…
Anthropic thinks it’ll be swimming in $70 billion by 2028
Anthropic just looked into its crystal ball (or spreadsheet) and says it’s on track to make up to $70 billion in revenue by 2028, plus a casual $17 billion in cash flow. Yes, billion with a B. The forecast comes from The…
Meta is spending on AI products more than most
In the middle of Silicon Valley’s AI gold rush, Meta has decided to go full prospector, only instead of shovels, it’s buying supercomputers and enough data centers to power a small country. Reports suggest US infrastructure spending could hit $600 billion…
Canva wants to be your all-in-one creative AI design tool
Canva’s having a glow-up, and this time, it’s thinking bigger than posters and PowerPoints. The company just dropped a batch of new digital marketing and video-editing tools, all powered by what it’s calling a “world-first design-focused AI model.” These upgrades are…
Researchers say AI browsers are a cybersecurity mess
Your web browser just got a brain, and a bit of an attitude. Last week, OpenAI and Microsoft cranked the AI browser race into overdrive with ChatGPT Atlas and a new “Copilot Mode” for Edge. These souped-up browsers can answer your…
Netflix goes all in on generative AI just to hold the boom mic
While Hollywood is still arguing over whether AI will one day write the next Oppenheimer or just ruin The Office reruns, Netflix seems to have made up its mind: it’s all in, but tastefully. In its latest quarterly earnings report, Netflix…
Anthropic’s Claude AI coding assistant gets a web app
Anthropic just gave its viral AI coding sidekick, Claude Code, a shiny new home on the web and it’s ready to ditch the command line hoodie for a browser-friendly interface. Starting this week, subscribers on Anthropic’s $20-per-month Pro plan and the…
Reddit’s new AI bot recommends heroin for pain relief
Reddit’s shiny new AI experiment, a chatbot called Answers, was supposed to make life easier. The idea is that it could dig through the platform’s massive archive of posts to give quick, smart summaries to user questions. Instead, it’s making headlines…
Japan warns OpenAI to stop “borrowing” its anime
Japan’s government just sent OpenAI a very polite but unmistakably sharp message: stop ripping off Japanese art. According to ITMedia (as reported by IGN), officials have formally asked the ChatGPT maker to cut it out after users flooded OpenAI’s video-generation app…