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PLUS: James Franco stars in a vertical video show, and Apple cuts Siri and Vision Pro jobs before John Ternus took over as Apple CEO.
PLUS: Dry shampoo for clothes, a MySpace relaunch tease, and $200M bet on the midterms via Kalshi and Polymarket.
PLUS: Leaks from OpenAI’s first hardware device, Flock’s Uber surveillance, Google’s biggest investment in India, the AI song that hit the Billboard Hot 100, and Disney adults on TikTok.
PLUS: Buying unapproved drugs in Montana, hypoallergenic dogs, and New York sued Kalshi.
PLUS: Behind Anthropic legally destroying books, the activist group called Everyone Hates Elon, and Spotify's new running mode.
PLUS: Anthropic’s $1.5 billion settlement, a strike triggered by humanoid robots, and the new UK Prime Minister scrapped the national digital ID program.
On Simplicity, Community, and the Limits of AI in Fitness
PLUS: Bad news for Princeton cheaters, Ashton Kutcher has a new fund, and an AI-generated actor is hitting the big screen.
The (free) system I use to capture everything and forget nothing.
PLUS: training robots with video game footage, an AI life coach you can text, and London's Met Police's new live facial recognition cameras.
I spent three days working from a hostel on Isla Mujeres. Here's what it cost and how the WiFi held up.
PLUS: Meta is building a Polymarket competitor, the drama with the “This Is Fine” dog, and OpenAI’s new voice model that interrupts you.
