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Last year, as an experiment, I baked cakes from recipes generated by ChatGPT and Bard. It went better than I expected — because much of each recipe didn’t seem created by AI at all.

The recipes I got were eerily familiar to recipes I’ve seen on food blogs or Instagram. They’d been slightly changed, and only Bard (now called Gemini)

• A family photo of the Princess of Wales has added fuel to the fire of a wild online conspiracy.
• Photo agencies have withdrawn the image over concerns it was manipulated.
• The fiasco proves that trusting anything online has become a total nightmare in the AI age.

Any other year

• Donald Trump is repeating his defense of TikTok, calling Facebook the real "enemy."
• Congress is considering a bill that would ban TikTok because of concerns over national security.
• Trump has a long-running beef with Facebook and its founder Mark Zuckerberg. 

Donald Trump is doubling down on his new pro

Dutch startup Eye Security has raised €36mn as it looks to defend European businesses from cyber criminals.  Founded in 2020 by a group of Dutch intelligence and security experts, the Hague-based outfit provides cyber protection, incident response, and cyber insurance services to small-to-medium sized companies.  The funding round, which brings Eye Security’s total amount raised so far to €57.5mn

Warner Bros. Games has announced a release date for Multiversus, its Smash Bros.-style fighter starring characters from all over the WB universe. Multiversus will launch as a free-to-play game on May 28th.

Porsche likes its lap records, whether at Nürburgring in Germany or Laguna Seca in California. These records mean a lot to the German automaker, so much so that it occasionally makes up new ones just to break them.

The latest record is no fabrication, though. Porsche needed something to boast for its model expansion for the Taycan electric sedan, so it

The Oscars award ceremony is a night for the stars of Hollywood to gather together and celebrate cinema, while also looking incredibly glamorous is lavishly expensive and immaculately presented couture. And yet no one at last nights awards—no one—could beat the hottest look of the night: a soft vinyl monster toy spray…

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• A 'male' humanoid robot appeared to inappropriately touch a female reporter during a presentation.
• Named 'Muhammad,' it is Saudi Arabia's first humanoid male robot.
• Muhammad is "fully autonomous" and did not deviate from his "expected behavior," the makers said.

A Saudi robotics

The Anova Precision Cooker Nano sous vide machine is on sale for just $60, which is a record low price for the cooking gadget. This amounts to a discount of 60 percent, as the MSRP for this thing is $150. In other words, there’s no better time to dip your toes into the temperature-controlled water bath that is sous vide cooking.

The Nano is an entry-level sous vide machine, so there aren’t too

• Kyrsten Sinema still has $11 million in campaign cash, and she's under no pressure to give it up.
• There's a strong possibility that she'll control what's known as a "zombie PAC" after she retires.
• She could use it to donate to other lawmakers, bolster a lobbying career, or even for personal use.

The $11

• We asked interior designers which items are worth splurging on when decorating a home.
• Furniture and upholstery services were listed as some of the best things to invest in.
• One interior designer said art is always worth the money, and it can become a family heirloom. 

Elon Musk said his startup xAI will open-source Grok later this week, revealing the inner workings of the chatbot to anyone who wants to dissect the AI or build a competing product. The announcement — which came just before 3 am Monday morning in Texas, where Musk makes his home — is short on details, but it’s…

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