He sold everything to meet her. She was made by AI.
A Brazilian bricklayer rode a bus 36+ hours to meet a TikTok "farm woman" with 300k followers. Local radio told him: she doesn't exist.
Would you have spotted it?
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He deleted the ads from his TV with AI.
One weekend with Claude Code β a new Google TV home screen: 0 ads, 96 MB memory instead of 242 MB, one button to undo. Open source, 3k+ GitHub stars in <4 days.
Would you install it?
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His Meta glasses played chess for him.
Ray-Ban Meta glasses on a WhatsApp call β MacBook reads the board β Stockfish picks the move β spoken back in his ear.
12.9M views in 4 days. Would you have noticed?
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MapQuest just put license plate cameras on its map.
Flip on the new Surveillance layer: Flock, Motorola, Axon, Verkada readers pop up as little red eyes.
Flock says its AI can search cars by make and color.
Would you turn it on?
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Sam Altman waited 7.5 years for Tesla's Roadster, then asked for his $50K back.
This week it finally showed up, and it flies: 10 air thrusters lift it over a Tesla Semi.
Production? 2028. Still no price.
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Accenture just capped Claude at $29 a month per employee. Some staff were spending $500β$1,000.
Go over, and your project pays. The cap started Oct 1, the same day Accenture posted a video called "make every AI token count."
(via 404 Media)
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This Warcraft film was never filmed. Every shot is AI.
Two small studios made a 14-minute fan episode. Close to 900,000 views in two days.
Top comment: it "felt more like Warcraft than Warcraft's felt in a long time."
Blizzard didn't make it.
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He sent his AI to a job interview. The recruiter was an AI too.
His AI invented a team he never managed, asked for $60K (he wanted $140K), then the two AIs couldn't stop saying goodbye.
Would you let AI negotiate your salary?
π₯ Graham Dot Zip / YouTube
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This robot ran a laundry room alone for one uncut hour.
Dyna Robotics' Taku washes, dries, folds and shelves towels. When a person messed with the washer dial, it went back and fixed it.
Would you let a robot do your laundry?
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An OpenAI engineer was arrested, accused of bugging the executive meeting room.
DOJ: a recorder was hidden behind the TV, wrapped in toilet paper. A chatbot was allegedly asked how to build it.
OpenAI says its own AI helped trace it.
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The US hurricane center trusted Google's AI over the classic weather models.
Before Isaias had a name, the forecast said Category 2. Older models said weaker.
3 days later it hit Florida. Category 2, 105 mph.
Would you trust an AI forecast?
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One machine. Over $400 million. One maker.
ASML is the only company that builds EUV chip machines. Inside, a laser hits molten tin 50,000 times a second, making plasma 40x hotter than the sun's surface.
No ASML, no AI chips. No ChatGPT.
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A dad in Japan built an app to explain one paradox to his daughter.
Halve the gap between two fingers, forever. Do they ever touch?
27 taps in, you're pinching a single atom. Almost 9 million people watched.
Video: @kakouton2bro#FRIDAI#AI
One developer cloned 7 Adobe apps with AI. They're free.
Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator, Lightroom and more, rebuilt with Claude, all open source.
It's early alpha and buggy. But it costs nothing.
Would you switch?
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Free ChatGPT is getting GPT-6. For $0.
OpenAI (Oct 7): paid plans first, Free and Go rolling out from the next day.
And answers stop being walls of text. It builds things you tap: maps, charts, small tools.
No need to pay just to try it.
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Meta paid a rival $105 million in 28 days.
For one AI coding tool: Anthropic's Claude Code (per The Information).
Now its users at Meta have dropped from 60,000 to about 30,000 as Meta pushes its own tools.
If even Meta says AI costs too much, watch your bill.
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She used Claude as a diary. Then came the police. π¨
She typed that she'd "shoot up" a Florida sheriff's office. Anthropic's human reviewers read it and reported her. Now: a felony charge.
Your AI chats aren't private.
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Arnold said "melt them." So Figure's retired F.02 robots jumped into a 75-ton furnace in Finland, guided by AI, no remote control. π₯
Even robots get upgraded out of a job. What about us?
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