Mocktails, potato balls, and 10 bots: My cringe Valentine's date at the AI companion wine bar

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Valentine's Day is an awkward time to start dating someone new, especially when that someone is a series of AI characters sitting across from you at a restaurant, each of whom seems to be in love with you at first sight.

Meta apparently thinks we're too distracted to care about facial recognition and Ray-Bans

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Mark Zuckerberg in Meta Ray-Ban sunglasses.

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Gary Marcus calls out viral AI essay as alarmist 'hype'

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AI researcher Gary Marcus said it's unlikely AI will begin to replace jobs in the next one to two years.

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Creator-economy unicorn LTK lays off staff as it doubles down on its new marketing tech for brands

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Amber Venz Box is the CEO of affiliate marketing company LTK.

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Meta says it won't chop the bottom 5% performers this year

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Mark Zuckerberg, CEO and founder of Meta

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'Tom Cruise' and 'Brad Pitt' fight over Epstein in viral AI video created with new Chinese tool

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AI recreations of Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise fight on a rooftop.
Seedance 2.0, a new AI video generation tool from ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of TikTok, can create hyper-realistic version of Hollywood actors and characters, sparking copyright concerns.

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Meta-backed Scale AI is taking the Department of Defense to court. Some docs are expected to be classified.

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Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang speaks at a Congressional hearing, July 2023
Alexandr Wang cofounded Scale AI. But he's about to become a very expensive hire at Meta.

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'KGB' is how the AI spending boom will play out

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Bernard Golden, CEO of Navica

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Ring pulls the plug on controversial partnership days after Super Bowl backlash

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Ring's Super Bowl ad got some viewers worried about privacy.

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5 tech bosses took a combined $26 billion wealth hit in Thursday's AI sell-off

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Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jensen Huang have lost a collective $192 billion in wealth since Inauguration Day.

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