Czech ice dancers Kateřina Mrázková and Daniel Mrázek made their Olympic debut on Monday, an unfathomable feat that requires a lifetime of commitment and practice. But the sibling duo used AI music in their rhythmic dance routine, which doesn’t break any official rules, but serves as a depressing symbol of how utterly cooked we are. … Read more
Boston Dynamics, the Massachusetts robotics company known for its four-legged robots and humanoids, is undergoing a leadership change. Robert Playter announced in an internal memo Tuesday that he will step down as the company’s CEO, as first reported by A3. Amanda McMaster, the company’s chief financial officer, will fill the top role while the company … Read more
Autodesk, a company known for its suite of 3D design software, is suing Google over claims it infringed on its “Flow” trademark, as it previously said. Reuters. The lawsuit, filed in a California court last week, alleges that the name of Google’s AI video generator, Flow, is likely to confuse customers with Autodesk’s own “Flow”-branded … Read more
Clawbot. Moltbot. OpenClaw. The quick rebranding might confuse you, but behind that name is a really useful tool. OpenClaw is a self-hosted AI agent that you can run on your own Mac or PC. More importantly, it can perform actions on your behalf, such as reading and modifying files, running shell commands, and even installing … Read more
ChatPlayground AI gives you easy access to over 40 cutting-edge AI models in 25 apps, all in one place – all for one low price. It includes big names like ChatGPT, Claude, DeepSeek, Llama, Perplexity and Gemini and allows you to send one challenge to multiple AIs at the same time. This means you can … Read more
ChatGPT users may soon start seeing ads in their chats, as OpenAI announced on Monday that it is officially starting to test ads on its AI platform. They will appear as labeled “sponsored” links at the bottom of ChatGPT’s answers, but OpenAI says the ads “do not affect the answers ChatGPT gives you.” Currently, ads … Read more
Apple makes it easy for anyone to crack the code. Image AI: Midjourney/Cult of Mac In the latest episode Cult of Mac podcast: Apple made a pretty bold move by adding third-party AI coding tools to Xcode. It will make the hard work easier for professional developers. It … Read more
Everyone who produced generative AI commercials for this year’s Super Bowl seems to have failed at making gene AI seem useful or something worth getting excited about. While we’ve seen plenty of AI-generated ads before (at previous Super Bowls, no less), this year’s event was oversaturated with them. That’s partly because image and video generation … Read more
OpenAI president Greg Brockman commented on X with a tweet calling the story “fake news” and OpenAI spokesperson Lindsay McCallum Rémy wrote “this is completely false”. It was remarkably convenient to see that the account that “found” the ad was brand new. The “wineheda” Reddit account behind the original post has now been deleted, but … Read more
Following last year’s trend of showing off AI in multi-million dollar commercials, the 2026 Super Bowl commercials have gone one step further, using AI to both create ads and promote the latest AI products. Love it or hate it, this technology has become a star in its own right alongside the latest movie trailers and … Read more