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From our jokes and slang to the White House’s policy messaging, internet “brain rot” has escaped our phones to take over … well, everything. Source link

Harassing bots with “funny violence.” Confiding about a broken heart. Chatting with a block of cheese. Filling a void of loneliness. Source link

As fuel costs go up, making a living as a gig driver is harder than ever. Source link

The astronauts traveling in the Artemis II spacecraft were allowed to take smartphones with them. Sadly, they can’t connect to the internet. Source link

“The platforms should be absolutely begging Congress to regulate them, because the alternative is they get sued into oblivion by a bunch of law firms.” Source link

OpenAI said the deal would help it “create a space for a real, constructive conversation about the changes A.I. creates.” Source link

The tech industry has predicted A.I. will profoundly affect the nature of white-collar work. The industry’s own workers are already getting a taste of that future. Source link

Today’s spin on the idea of personal agency is convenient for tech C.E.O.s, who boast that their models work just fine without us. Source link

Users who have been saddled with now-cringe email handles since the mid-2000s can now change them without losing any data under a policy Google announced on Wednesday. Source link

OpenAI, Anthropic, Waymo and other artificial intelligence companies hauled in $297 billion in funding in the first three months of the year. Source link