Slop Evader: A search tool that will only return content created before ChatGPT’s first public release on November 30, 2022. (Tega Brain)
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“Just an endless dribble of computer generated nonsens”: YouTuber millionaire Casey Neistat on OpenAI’s TikTok competitor Sora.
FOOM! This YouTube channel from Runway streams 24/7 AI-generated videos and it’s bad, but like, not all of is terrible garbage?! (via Sofie Hvitved)
Google tests NotebookLM’s chatty AI podcast on Search.
Google Labs Portraits: Author Kim Scott is letting Google make a chatbot version of her to coach people.
“Googled ‘I am a pigeon what should I do next’ and the google ai made me an entire itinerary?? With survival tips??” (pipers.jpeg, Threads)
Chatbot alert: Advance Digital and NJ.com launch AI-powered Politics Election Hub for New Jersey’s governor’s race 2025. (via David Cohn)
Okay, this is slick PR, but: Anthropic got Rick Rubin to do some visual code experiments based on Lao Tzu for the Claude release. Translation: with Claude access, you can vibe-code pretty animations.
Florent Daudens has built an open source version of NotebookLM’s podcast to break down the top AI research paper each day: “Fully automated, now live on Spotify.” (LinkedIn)
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Spotify Wrapped’s new feature: A personalized AI podcast (Jiselle Lee, WaPost)
“what, exactly is a soup compared to a sauce or a drink” (Ethan Mollick, Threads)
European Parliament expands access to their archives with Claude (Anthropic)
Trump’s Speeches, Increasingly Angry and Rambling, Reignite the Question of Age (Peter Baker, Dylan Freedman, NYTimes)
