Author: Michael Comaous

On Thursday, Elon Musk lost his lawsuit alleging that advertisers violated antitrust law by colluding on an ad boycott after he took over Twitter, gutted content moderation teams, and disbanded the Trust and Safety Council. In her opinion, US District Judge Jane Boyle wrote that the lawsuit was dismissed because Musk failed to state a claim. His arguments that advertisers acted against their own best interests by avoiding advertising on his platform, now called X, did not plead facts showing that consumers were harmed. Without consumer harm, there can be no antitrust violation, the judge wrote, deeming the ad boycott…

As AI makes inroads into the worlds of editorial and media, websites are scrambling to establish ground rules for its usage. This week, Wikipedia banned the use of AI-generated text by its editors — although it stopped short of banning AI outright from the site’s editorial processes. In a recent policy change, the site now states that “the use of LLMs to generate or rewrite article content is prohibited.” This new language updates and clarifies previous, vaguer language that stated that LLMs “should not be used to generate new Wikipedia articles from scratch.” AI in Wikipedia articles has become a…

Google is rolling out two new Gemini tools on Thursday which could attract users who are thinking about switching their preferred AI chatbot but don’t want to “retrain” a new AI. Gemini’s new “Import Memory” and “Import Chat History” features help users quickly copy over everything their current AI already knows about them with a couple of pre-written prompts.To use the “Import Memory” tool, users copy and paste a suggested prompt from Gemini into their previous AI, then paste the output from the previous AI into Gemini, which should get Gemini caught up on their preferences. The “Import Chat History”…

AMD has unveiled what might be its most extreme desktop CPU yet, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2. And it’s going all-in on one thing: cache. 💥 We pushed the limits of desktop performance with X3D. Then we pushed them further.I’ve been testing the new unreleased Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition in the lab firsthand and it is incredible.The world’s first desktop CPU with dual @AMD 3D V-Cache delivers 208MB of total… pic.twitter.com/Cm5mfSkeQm— Jack Huynh (@jackhuynh) March 26, 2026 Building on the existing AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D, the new chip introduces a dual 3D V-Cache design, meaning both core chiplets (CCDs) now…

Project Hail Mary is a smash hit at the box office, and nobody’s more thrilled than the emerging powerhouse Amazon MGM Studios. In Hollywood, when a movie earns that rare combination of critical and commercial success, sequel talk becomes inevitable. But it’s not as simple as hiring a screenwriter to bang out Project Hail Mary 2. The creative team behind the movie doesn’t want to continue the story until Andy Weir, who wrote the Project Hail Mary novel, pens his own follow-up first. According to the Hollywood Reporter, “While there are no official conversations underway between Weir and Amazon MGM,…

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When technology reporter Alex Heath has a scoop, he sits down at his computer and speaks into a microphone. He’s not talking to a human colleague—Heath went independent on Substack last year—he’s talking to Claude. Using the AI-powered voice-to-text service Wispr Flow, Heath transmits his ideas to an AI agent, then lets it write his first draft.Heath sat down with me last week to showcase how he’s integrated Anthropic’s Claude Cowork into his journalistic process. The AI tool is connected to his Gmail, Google Calendar, Granola AI transcription service, and Notion notes. He’s also built a detailed skill—a custom set…

But bear in mind Intel’s pricing here—at $199 and $299, these CPUs’ most direct competition is coming from AMD’s 6- and 8-core non-X3D processors, in particular the Ryzen 9600X, 7700X, and 9700X. We don’t have one to test, but the Ryzen 7600X3D also sits right around $300 and could be an option if game performance is way more important to you than any other kind of performance. We’ve generally stuck to the default power settings for all the chips, though we did use the higher-performing 105 W power setting for the Ryzen 9700X. The refreshed Arrow Lake chips are respectable…

OpenAI may be dialing back its efforts in the video generation market with the shutdown of its Sora app, but ByteDance on Thursday confirmed that its new audio and video model, Dreamina Seedance 2.0, is now rolling out in its editing platform, CapCut. ByteDance says the model allows creators to draft, edit, and sync video and audio content by using prompts, images, or reference videos. The phased rollout will begin with CapCut users in Brazil, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam, with more markets added over time. The news of the launch in CapCut follows a recent report…

Wikipedia will no longer allow editors to write or rewrite articles using AI. The update, which was added to Wikipedia’s guidelines late last week, cites the tendency for AI-written articles to violate “several of Wikipedia’s core content policies” as the reason for the ban.The change applies to the English version of Wikipedia and will still allow editors to use AI in certain scenarios. That includes using large language models to “suggest basic copyedits” to their writing, but only if it “does not introduce content of its own.” Editors can also use AI to translate articles from another language’s Wikipedia into…