Simile raises $200M to survey AI ‘twins’ of real consumers
A startup wants companies to stop asking real people what they think, and ask fake ones instead. Simile has raised $200m at a $2bn valuation to build “agentic twins,” AI...
‘Victorian Psycho’ trailer is a brilliant, bloody nightmare
Maika Monroe stars as Winifred Notty, "the sanest person she's ever met," in Victorian Psycho, a bloody horror-comedy that'll have you frankly terrified of the Longlegs and 100 Nights of...
Europe opens bidding for seven AI ‘gigafactories’ in a €30bn bid to catch up
The European Commission has opened the bidding to build up to seven AI “gigafactories,” vast computing hubs meant to give the bloc the raw power to train frontier AI models...
Lego Pokémon Smart Play livestream: How to watch on July 31
TL;DR: Lego is livestreaming a demo of its new Pokémon Smart Play sets on July 31 at 12 p.m. ET / 9 a.m. PT, just ahead of the collection's official...
A quantum chip that runs itself, and the IBM deal it explains
Six days ago, IBM agreed to buy a quantum-computing lab that builds a kind of qubit IBM does not. This week, the lab showed the world why. HRL Laboratories published...
‘Daily Show’ breaks down Trump’s bizarre speech at Lindsey Graham’s memorial
Donald Trump has already made plenty of confusing comments in response to the death of Senator Lindsey Graham, so it's probably no big surprise that his memorial speech went the...
Revolut partners with OpenAI to bundle ChatGPT Go into its subscriptions
Revolut is handing its customers free access to ChatGPT, the result of a new partnership with OpenAI. The fintech, which says it now serves more than 75 million people worldwide,...
Half of Gen Z catch themselves ‘performing’ during solo pleasure
HUD — named the best new hookup app by Mashable — and sex toy site Girls Get Off partnered to release the Pleasure Census, an anonymous survey of over 2,100...
Aligning the model was never going to govern it
Most AI roadmaps rest on a quiet bet: that the labs will eventually ship a model safe and aligned enough to simply trust in production. Better training, better guardrails, one...
Best window cleaning robot deal: Save $100.99 on the Ecovacs Winbot W2 Pro Omni
SAVE $100.99: As of July 29, get the Ecovacs Winbot W2 Pro Omni for $399 at Amazon, down from its usual price of $499.99. That's a discount of 20%. $399...