Richard Lawler
“You all have AI — actual intelligence.”
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak was a commencement speaker for Grand Valley State University a few weeks ago, and managed to mention AI without being booed or completely ruining the event.
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Terrence O'Brien
Jay Peters
A game studio promoting an AI video contest is canceling the competition.
From Recreate Games, which was working on the contest for its multiplayer party game Party Animals:
Even though our original intention was to encourage more diverse forms of creative expression and lower the barrier to entry, allowing more players who love Party Animals to participate, we mistakenly tied “lowering the barrier” together with “using AI.” In doing so, we overlooked the potential offense and harm that the ongoing debate surrounding AI-generated content could cause to our players and the creator community.
Jess Weatherbed
Figma has a product design AI agent.
The new agent is initially available in Figma Design, and can be used to help with generated or editing design projects, and “automate busywork,” according to Figma’s announcement. This is the latest creative company to launch an AI assistant, following Canva and several examples from Adobe.
Jess Weatherbed
Emma Roth
LinkedIn is cracking down on spammy AI-generated comments.
The platform began limiting the visibility of content deemed “generic or repetitive” earlier this year, and now it’s expanding this system to “low-effort” comments that may be AI-generated. That includes comments posted across LinkedIn using automation tools with “little or no human involvement,” as well as ones that “restate the original post without sharing anything new.”
Keeping conversations real on LinkedIn
[LinkedIn]
Terrence O'Brien
Google Flow Music is getting a dedicated mobile app.
It’s already available on iOS, and coming to Android soon. Google is also adding granular editing tools for changing portions of an AI-generated song, tweaking beat drops, or rewriting lyrics. It’s also adding the ability to generate “covers” and music videos, so you can countrify that punk song you prompted.
Google has been working on agentic AI for years. Building on the viral success of OpenClaw could finally tip the scales.
Hayden Field
Kevin O’Leary wants to cover 40,000 acres. Residents say, ‘Not in my backyard.’
Emma Roth
Dominic Preston
Google’s big ask.
Yesterday Emma Roth wrote that Google’s pitch for AI at I/O demands both your trust and your personal data. Going by the comment section, that’s a trade many of you are no longer willing to make.
monterxz:
Google lost the first long ago and will never get any more of the second out of me.
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Jay Peters
Google is launching an Android version of its AI Studio vibe coding tool.
The app, which you can pre-register for on Google Play, will let you use AI and prompts to starting building other apps.
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Image: Google
Richard Lawler
The Future of Truth has a problem in its fabricated present.
Despite its claim of explaining how AI tech threatens to impose “potentially catastrophic robotic certainty” on the concept of the truth, the NYT points out that this book contains multiple quotes made up by AI.
Author Steven Rosenbaum (“The Truth Whisperer”) says he takes “full responsibility” after using Claude and ChatGPT for research, writing, and editing, but claims: “These AI errors do not, in fact, diminish the larger questions that the book raises.”
Book on Truth in the Age of A.I. Contains Quotes Made Up by A.I.
[New York Times]
