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Gen Z Is Debating Whether AI Counts Toward Your Body Count. So, Does It?
Some think sexting a chatbot should count toward their sexual history, while others believe AI intimacy could qualify as cheating.
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Everything We Know About the Free Adobe Clones Built With AI. Do They Actually Work?
A developer used Claude to build free, open-source alternatives to Adobe’s creative apps. They’re ambitious, familiar, and buggy.
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Pictures by Nick Dove I Went to a Weird Party About Data Centers, With People Who Love Them
At Data After Dark, a soirée held in Washington D.C., dissenters stole the stage from boozed-up American techno-optimists.
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Ray-Ban Meta Audio – Credit: Meta Meta Has New, No-Camera Smart Glasses. Does Anyone Care?
Can Meta’s latest smart glasses, which lack a camera entirely, avoid the pervert glasses moniker?
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Image: Heavy Weekend / Away Days x VICE. Unconventional Brain Action—This Week On VICE: Members Only
This week behind the paywall: a new documentary about men who batter each other for fun, and a journalistic experiment with a fruit fly’s neural network.
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Original picture: a visualization of the fruit fly's brain, by Tyler Sloan for FlyWire, Princeton University We Hijacked a Fruit Fly’s Brain and Made It Write VICE Headlines
Vibe coders have gone viral after teaching the fly to trade crypto and “turning it bisexual.” We decided to make it our new intern.
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Photo: gremlin / Getty Images Why One of AI’s Biggest CEOs Is Suddenly Asking the Industry to Slow Down
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says AI development should slow, warning more capable autonomous agents could create major cybersecurity risks.
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This New Dating Tool Lets You Background-Check a Match Before the First Date
Stud or Dud searches public records for marriages, court cases, addresses, and other details that might expose red flags before a date.
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ChatGPT Allegedly Told a Man Experiencing Delusions That He Was Jesus
A California man is suing OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT reinforced religious delusions during a manic episode before his suicide attempt.
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GPT-6 Astra Can Build Video Games Fast, but They Look Awfully Familiar
OpenAI says Astra can work inside tools like Blender and Unreal Engine, while early demos show game prototypes resembling existing hits.
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