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Great @wired.com scoop from @milesklee.bsky.social!

Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit Over Its AI ‘Expert Review’ Feature The feature, which Grammarly shut down Wednesday, presented editing suggestions as if they came from established authors and academics—without their consent.

Earlier this month, WIRED reported on Grammarly’s controversial AI tool that presented editing suggestions as if they came from established authors and academics, without their consent.

Now Grammarly parent company Superhuman is facing a class action lawsuit over the tool.

Every Frame a Hologram

This Digital Picture Frame Wants to Bring People Closer to a Holographic Future Brooklyn-based Looking Glass has been dabbling in 3D screens for nearly a decade. It's finally launching Musubi, an AI-powered holographic frame to bring your photos and videos to life.

Brooklyn-based Looking Glass has been dabbling in 3D screens for nearly a decade. It's finally launching Musubi, an AI-powered holographic frame to bring your photos and videos to life. www.wired.com/story/lookin...

Inside OpenAI’s Race to Catch Up to Claude Code Why is the biggest name in AI late to the AI coding revolution?

Why is the biggest name in AI late to the coding revolution?

@mzeff.bsky.social spoke to more than 30 people, including OpenAI execs and employees who spoke without company permission, about how OpenAI is racing to catch up with Anthropic -- and why it fell behind in the first place:

lmfao

A little offended Grammarly didn't make a sloppelganger of me

a giant bus ad that reads “who’s your dadd AI”

san francisco was a mistake

Fake AI Content About the Iran War Is All Over X X’s Grok is failing to accurately verify video footage from the Iran conflict and is sharing its own AI-generated images about the war.

"I see the proliferation of AI-based fake news pushing us over the edge of a fact-based world unless we enact change now."

DHS Ousts CBP Privacy Officers Who Questioned ‘Illegal’ Orders Department of Homeland Security leaders removed top privacy officers who objected to mislabeling government records to block their public release, WIRED has learned.

Scoop: DHS ousted multiple privacy officers at CBP after they questioned orders to purposely mislabel records about government surveillance to prevent their release under FOIA.

Bluesky CEO Jay Graber Is Stepping Down Venture capitalist Toni Schneider will take over as interim CEO as Bluesky’s board of directors hunts for a permanent replacement.

BREAKING: Graber is out as CEO of Blueksy.

Full report here from @knibbs.bsky.social:

www.wired.com/story/bluesk...

she was a fairy

half my timeline is just people smarter than I am posting "dawg" "chat is this good" "woof" and/or horrifying graphs

worst day of the year. hour stolen from night time given to the smug idiot breakfast eaters. the rise and shine clowns

genius

Damn.

Jack Dorsey Is Ready to Explain the Block Layoffs In an exclusive interview with WIRED, Block’s cofounder and CEO says he axed 40 percent of his workforce so that he can rebuild the company “as an intelligence.”

In an exclusive interview with @stevenlevy.bsky.social, Jack Dorsey tries to explain Block’s massive layoffs, reacts to CEOs sucking up to Trump, and talks about why he’s so unhappy with @wired.com 😭

It’s a great conversation, read away:

This Jammer Wants to Block Always-Listening AI Wearables. It Probably Won't Work Deveillance's Spectre I, developed by a recent Harvard grad, wants to give people control over the always-on wearables surrounding their lives. The problem? Physics.

Deveillance's Spectre I, developed by a recent Harvard grad, wants to give people control over the always-on wearables surrounding their lives. The problem? Physics. www.wired.com/story/deveil...

it’s true 😂

no one:

Silicon Valley: im gonna create a MARKET that is so POLY it could destroy the world

Alan Cumming, Bowen Yang Help Launch Necessary Foundation to Support LGBTQ Filmmakers "There is, in this moment, enormous political pressure to delete queer people from American media, and that includes young filmmakers who are being shut out of the industry,” said executive director A...

always happy to be supporting money going to queer artists!
lots of kick ass cool people associated with this org!

Why Is Alexa+ So Bad? I stuck Amazon’s Echo Show 15 and its Alexa+ AI assistant in my kitchen for a month. Things have not gone well.

By building their voice assistant around generative AI, Amazon has created an Alexa that simply doesn’t work.

Easy tasks, like playing music or pulling up YouTube videos, go haywire.

It’s an AI flop.

www.wired.com/story/why-is...

but it’s good at surveilling you and feeding your voice and data into its slop banks

Why Is Alexa+ So Bad? I stuck Amazon’s Echo Show 15 and its Alexa+ AI assistant in my kitchen for a month. Things have not gone well.

By building their voice assistant around generative AI, Amazon has created an Alexa that simply doesn’t work.

Easy tasks, like playing music or pulling up YouTube videos, go haywire.

It’s an AI flop.

www.wired.com/story/why-is...

Why Is Alexa+ So Bad? I stuck Amazon’s Echo Show 15 and its Alexa+ AI assistant in my kitchen for a month. Things have not gone well.

I stuck Amazon’s Echo Show 15 and its Alexa+ AI assistant in my kitchen for a month. Things have not gone well. www.wired.com/story/why-is...

that's good right

yasssssssss (I cried)