Katelyn

oh to be a brightly colored italian espresso maker dancing at the olympic opening ceremonies... hopecore at its finest

Anthropic Pinky Promises It Won't Add Ads to Claude Anthropic's Super Bowl ads are funny, but can we really trust them?

We can never say never. Anthropic didn't. www.cnet.com/tech/service...

ChatGPT-4o Fans, Get Ready to Say Goodbye: OpenAI Will Soon Retire Several Models For real this time.

Second time’s the charm? www.cnet.com/tech/service...

Bye Bye, ChatGPT-4o: OpenAI Will Soon Retire Several Models, Pushing New GPT-5 Ones The last time OpenAI tried to move users away from ChatGPT-4o, there was quite a bit of backlash.

Bye bye ChatGPT 4o, you may (?) be missed www.cnet.com/tech/service...

Legitimately my favorite AI story CNET has ever published www.cnet.com/tech/service...

There is nobody, and I mean NOBODY, that I hate more than Ticketmaster

Do we thing The Duffer brothers sent a gift basket to the Game of Thrones season 8 writers? Because if they didn’t, they absolutely should. Saved them from being responsible for the worst finale in recent pop culture memory

My Verizon service is down oh NO I will just have to sit by myself and read a good book with an ice cold glass of water and have the perfect excuse for being unreachable…

I Challenged an AI Bartender to Design Me a Cocktail. I Was Surprised With the Result Would you trust AI to be your bartender? I did. Here's how it went.

The best part of CES so far, hands-down. www.cnet.com/tech/service...

The Only Way to Stop AI 'Art' in 2026 Is to Make It Uncool Commentary: AI image and video generation took over 2025. We need some big changes to avoid an AI slop-filled future in 2026.

2025 was the year when AI image and video broke into the mainstream, for better or worse. If we want to see fewer tech bros claiming they made the next Mona Lisa with Midjourney, we need to make some big changes in 2026.
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Three magazines: People (Wicked for Good special edition), Cosmopolitan and Time (AI edition)

bringing more physical media into my life has been one of my best choices this year

can one of you internet therapists diagnose what mental illness leads to being in the top 5% of LinkedIn users according to LinkedIn Wrapped (asking for a friend)

Town of Cary spent $1 million on land. Elected leaders left in the dark. A former council member says she didn’t learn of the sale until over a year later, shortly before former Town Manager Sean Stegall was put on leave.

IDK man if I bought $1M worth of land for my local government without some of the town staff knowing and after being advised by other people not to, I would simply not. (gift link)
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This Is the Cheapest Way to Create Unlimited AI Images With Google's New Nano Banana Pro A rare Adobe promotion coincides with the release of Google's new image generation model.

If you want to go bananas (sorry, couldn't resist) with Google's new AI image model, here's how 🍌
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charli xcx starting a substack was not on my 2025 bingo card

You Can Use an AI Clone of Matthew McConaughey's Voice, if He Says It's 'Alright, Alright, Alright' Michael Caine, Maya Angelou, Judy Garland, Alan Turing, J. Robert Oppenheimer and Babe Ruth are other AI voices available to license through ElevenLabs.

Big thanks to @jondreed.bsky.social for creating this beaut of a headline www.cnet.com/tech/service...

AI-Generated Videos of ICE Raids Are Wildly Viral on Facebook An account is spamming horrific, dehumanizing videos of immigration enforcement because the Facebook algorithm is rewarding them for it.

The most horrifying AI slop of ICE raids you can possibly imagine is wildly viral on Facebook, collectively totaling tens of millions of views from a single account. First spotted by @chadloder.bsky.social

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There are a lot of things I wouldn’t pay for but I would probably pay Meta at this point to turn off the friend bubbles that cover up every single post on my Instagram feed

Yes! This! Why should we overfill our pockets if we don’t have to? Go Jessica’s dad!!

The iPhone Pocket Is the Apple Accessory You Never Saw Coming Just in time for chilly weather, it's knitwear for your iPhone.

Why can't we just normalize purses and bags for everyone www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/...

Partner Manager, Entertainment Media Partnerships · 2 locations · FullTime

OpenAI's looking for someone to sell Sora to film and TV studios, and it's willing to pay $370k plus equity. In case anyone was wondering about the company's AI video endgame: openai.com/careers/part...

New career goal unlocked: To write something as impactful as the Vogue Is Having a Boyfriend Embarrassing Now? article

Photoshop's New AI Assistant Can Rename All Your Layers So You Don't Have To The chatbot-like AI assistant isn't out yet, but there is at least one practical way to use it.

There has been a lot of Adobe news this week, but this really seems to be the most important, since this feature got the loudest reaction from the keynote audience www.cnet.com/tech/service...

Adobe's AI Makes It Quicker Than Ever to Edit Your Photos. I Got an Early Look All the Adobe research projects transform time-intensive manual photo edits into a few easy clicks.

Got an early, exclusive first look at Adobe’s upcoming photography AI research projects. And you need to see them to believe them.

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The Deepfakes Are Winning. How Can You Tell if a Video Is Real or Sora AI? There's no one foolproof way to tell if a video is real or made with Sora. But there are things you can look for to try and bolster your odds.

Sora changed the deepfake game. It's nearly impossible to tell AI-generated videos from real ones, but there are some things you can keep an eye out for.

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just got a PR pitch offering a guy as a source, he "gave up on real-life relationships long ago" for AI companions because "with women's expectations too high and no fair reward for keeping up" there's no point.

these men are not lonely enough

OpenAI Says It's Working With Actors to Crack Down on Celebrity Deepfakes in Sora Bryan Cranston alerted SAG-AFTRA, the actors' union, when he saw AI-generated videos of himself made with the AI video app.

SAG-AFTRA and several talent agencies join the slew of folks concerned about Sora's ability to create realistic-looking AI videos of celebrities and public figures www.cnet.com/tech/service...

send me good vibes I'm trying to test AI video generators on my 2018 MacBook and it is... not going well

OpenAI Pauses Sora AI Videos of Martin Luther King Jr. as 'Inappropriate' Deepfakes Flood the App The video fakery ranged from weird takes of King rapping to overtly racist content.

who could've possibly predicted this would happen
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Really exciting news for all the parents who try to touch your MacBook screen and get their hands politely swatted away