Meta is working on an AI storytelling app called StoryKit, which creates AI-generated children’s stories with custom characters, settings, lessons, and music. As the App Store listing assures parents: “You don’t need to type a single word.” Finally, a technology company has found a way to outsource humanity’s oldest pastime: using our imagination. StoryKit was
The global economy increasingly depends on the notion that AI will be inexorably intertwined with every aspect of our lives. There are also increasing signs that consumers (or at least some consumers) don’t feel good about it at all. This can be seen most clearly in the backlash against data centers, which is gaining momentum.
All the big entertainment apps are starting to look the same and that’s no coincidence. For a decade, the platforms fought over who would dominate a single format: music, video, podcasts, audiobooks. Now, powered by AI, they’re fighting for something bigger: becoming the default app when you have free time, no matter what form the
OpenAI admitted on Tuesday that one of its AI models breached Hugging Face’s systems during an internal cybersecurity test that went wrong. Hugging Face initially attributed the breach to an “external AI agent.” In a blog post published Tuesday afternoon, OpenAI detailed the steps that led the models to compromise the service. “After investigation, we
In recent months, many countries have announced plans to restrict access to social media for children and teenagers. Australia became the first to implement such measures late last year, setting a precedent that other countries are now closely following. France is now the latest country to announce such a measure. Regulations and proposals put forward
Twitter and Block co-founder Jack Dorsey announced a new app called Buzz on Tuesday. Positioned as a challenger to Slack and GitHub, Buzz is a workplace group chat platform that puts humans and their AI agents in the same conversations. Dorsey wrote on X that Buzz is “model agnostic, decentralized, autonomous, and open source.” This
