Adventures in Covid; Bored Ape NFT event causes severe eye-burn; WeWork files for bankruptcy; Microsoft watermarks for deepfakes; Cruise's robotaxis even worse than previously reported; OpenAI's expanding; Google generative AI ads; bros on a boat; AI bot engages in insider trading, lying about it; Loki, the Marvels & superhero fatigue; SAG-AFTRA strike ends; Musk biopic; streaming media accounting; Marianne Faithfull; Star Trek escape room; the Traitors; YouTube ad-blocking; Humane AI Pin; the Interdependency; new sci-fi trilogy from the Expanse writers; thoughts are with the Great Woz.
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Bored Ape NFT event attendees report ‘severe eye burn’
Sam Bankman-Fried and the People Who Gave Up Their Money for Nothing
IN THE NEWS
WeWork files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection
Microsoft offers politicians protection against deepfakes
Things are going from bad to worse for Cruise's robotaxis
Cruise Robotaxis Require Remote Human Assistance Every 4 to 5 Miles
Everything announced at OpenAI's first developer event
Google brings generative AI to ads
Google Announces Expansion of AI Partnership with Anthropic
Universe 2023: Copilot transforms GitHub into the AI-powered developer platform
AI bot capable of insider trading and lying, say researchers
MEDIA CANDY
‘The Marvels’ Review: You’ve Seen This Movie 32 Times Before
Hollywood studios reportedly want to recycle dead actors’ AI likenesses without family permission
Darren Aronofsky Will Direct an Elon Musk Biopic for A24
Disney+ Adds Nearly 7 Million Subscribers, Still Loses Money
Marianne Faithfull Covers Album Features Iggy Pop, Shirley Manson, Cat Power, and More
Stanford Prison Experiment: Zimbardo’s Famous Study
APPS & DOODADS
Thousands of people are uninstalling ad blockers after YouTube's big crackdown
YouTube’s ad blocking crackdown is facing a new challenge: privacy laws
The Humane AI Pin Gets Its Big Reveal But We Still Have a Lot of Questions
AT THE LIBRARY
The Last Emperox: The Interdependency, Book 3 by John Scalzi
The Expanse's James S.A. Corey Announces a New Sci-Fi Trilogy
Spotify brings 15 hours of monthly audiobook listening to Premium subscribers in the U.S.
CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS
Apple Cofounder Steve Wozniak Hospitalized After Possible Stroke
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