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Charli xcx just invested in Nothing and was announced as the company's first global brand ambassador. For their first promotion together the startup claims it had the singer wear the Nothing Headphone A for five days straight to test their 135-hour battery life.

2 minutes ago There is a harsh truth about Elon Musk's “truth-seeking” AI chatbot Grok: It's not very good, and not many people are using it.

New data suggests government workers don’t like Elon Musk’s chatbot. Does anybody?

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AI-assisted lawsuits are flooding the legal system. Good news for the people able to file without costly lawyers — and bad news for the already overwhelmed court system. Interesting read from the NYT here, though the issue has been simmering away for a while now. Maybe it’s time for AI judges? [Link: Artificial Intelligence Floods Court Dockets with Home-Brewed Lawsuits

Spicy chatbot startup Joi AI says it's hiring 10 “masturbation consultants” to test new “daily audio-guided sessions” with an AI-generated voice. If you fancy trying your hand, you've until the end of the week

AI training startup Shift wants to clean your home for free. The catch — because, despite what its website says, there's always a catch — is that it will record cleaners as they scrub, vacuum, dust, tidy, and wash, and use that footage to train robots.

This week, an AI training startup called Shift said it would clean New Yorkers' homes for free . It has plans to expand into other cities as well, including London, and looking around my flat, I get the appeal.

The crypto weed vape found me on 4/20, the high holiday of cannabis enthusiasts everywhere. It arrived over Slack with the thumbnail of a man exhaling a plume of vapor, the words “every hit delivers Bitcoin” emblazoned across it. It claimed to be advertising a device called Gudtrip, and I thought everything about it sounded fake.