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ChatGPT and Roblox are about to face…
EU regulators plan to classify OpenAI's ChatGPT and Roblox as very large online platforms under the DSA. New compliance obligations hit products with very different risk profiles.
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LinkedIn is building classifiers to fight AI…
LinkedIn rolled out AI slop reporting, new classifiers, and private dashboard flags. Platforms are finally admitting inauthentic content is a retention problem.
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How I prototype Google Sheets dashboards with…
Gemini Canvas can turn spreadsheet tabs into a shareable interactive dashboard without exporting to Looker first. Here is the workflow I would use for client ops trackers and content calendars.
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Google's $10M Spirit Airlines data bid puts…
Bankrupt Spirit Airlines' corporate archive includes 100M emails and crew records. Flight attendants blocked Google's purchase while Micro1 offered $12.5M. The fight is over who owns the exhaust of a dead company.
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Meta's youth safety trial could rewrite how…
Four states opened trial in Oakland arguing Meta designed Instagram and Facebook to hook kids. Remedies could reach into infinite scroll, push alerts, and model training on minors' data.
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Reddit is testing AI voices that turn…
Reddit's Read/Play test adds AI-narrated audio and video for select English posts. Original threads stay interactive while Reddit chases formats already popular on TikTok and Reels.
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Google paused Earth AI in 48 hours.…
Google rolled back Nano Banana 2 in Google Earth after BBC Verify showed fake satellite scenes on real coordinates. Watermarks help, but map trust erodes fast.
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Google AI Studio apps can claim a…
Google AI Studio Build mode now assigns custom subdomains under ai.studio at publish time. Here is when the free URL is enough, when you still need your own domain, and the gotchas around unpublishing.
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auth.md is robots.txt for AI agent registration…
WorkOS published auth.md, an open protocol for agents to register users on web services without sign-up forms. Discovery runs through OAuth Protected Resource Metadata with agent-verified and user-claimed flows.
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Ten open-source scraping tools that replace paid…
Firecrawl, browser-use, Crawl4AI, MarkItDown, and Crawlee can build training and RAG pipelines without $2,000/month scraper contracts. Here is the stack I actually wire for clients.
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LLMs keep inventing the same fake experts,…
A new arXiv study maps correlated name priors in Claude, GPT, and Gemini outputs. Fictional personas like Elena Vasquez and Marcus Chen appear across AI-generated sites and 1,655 backdated Zenodo records with real DOIs.