Microsoft adds new AI features to Windows 11: Copilot Voice, with a “Hey, Copilot!” wake word, and Copilot Vision, which can scan the screen to help the user
where AI is built into the tools people already use every day. With today's updates, every Windows 11 PC becomes an AI PC, with Copilot at the center, ready to help you think, create, and act. And it ...
OpenAI unveils the Apps SDK in preview, built on MCP, to let developers build ChatGPT apps, and says that it will begin accepting app submissions later in 2025
Expedia, Spotify, Canva, Zillow, Others Now Available Tech Xplore : OpenAI unveils ChatGPT app integration feature OpenAI : App developer guidelines Zillow MediaRoom : Zillow debuts the only real esta...
A book excerpt details the “enshittification” of Amazon, and how its “flywheel” technique now enriches the company at the expense of merchants
Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products?
GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke says he will “leave GitHub to become a founder again”, with GitHub and its leadership team moving into Microsoft's CoreAI organization
once independent programming site now part of ‘CoreAI’ team Todd Bishop / GeekWire : GitHub will join Microsoft's CoreAI division with departure of CEO Thomas Dohmke Kaustubh Bagalkote / Benzinga : Mi...
Wikipedia editors adopt a policy giving administrators the authority to quickly delete AI-generated articles that meet certain criteria, like wrong citations
as if enshittification is not self imposed. if you simply act in the interest of your actual users, it just doesn't happen. X: @halsted_19 : Cool. A Wikipedia entry on “Signs of AI writing” [image] F...
Families and funeral directors are using AI obituary generators to memorialize the dead, as critics worry about AI coarsening how people remember one another
I have been writing here about AI-induced enshittification … Nadeem Sarwar / Digital Trends : The hottest new ChatGPT trend is disturbingly morbid Bluesky: Alexios Mantzarlis / @mantzarlis.com : Updat...
An interview with computational linguist Emily Bender, who coined the term “stochastic parrot”, on her AI skepticism, co-writing the book The AI Con, and more
The computational linguist on her motivations for taking on Big Tech, the dangers of chatbots — and why AI is just a ‘glorified Magic 8 Ball’ Bluesky: @hypervisible , @tonytassell , and @nataliegreenp...
WhatsApp rolls out ads in its Updates tab, a first for the app, and Meta will collect some data to target the ads, but says it has no plans to put ads in chats
here's where you'll see them (and where you won't) Capital Brief : Meta to roll out ads on WhatsApp and offer paid subscriptions Katie Hicks / Marketing Brew : Ads are coming to WhatsApp Colin Kirklan...
Discord co-founder and CEO Jason Citron is stepping down, replaced by Humam Sakhnini effective April 28; Citron will stay on the board and become a CEO advisor
to help friends talk while playing games—has grown into something far bigger than I ever imagined. I'll be transitioning to a new role as Board Member and Advisor, and continuing to support Discord t...
In an AMA, Steve Huffman says Reddit is planning to roll out paid subreddits in 2025 and is “laying the foundation” to monetize commerce within subreddits
https://arstechnica.com/... Forums: r/RDDT : AM(A)A Video: Reddit's Q4 2024 Earnings r/Futurology : Reddit will lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says | How will Reddit generate conte...