Can you tell which passage was written by AI? This New York Times quiz is humbling either way. (Kevin Roose and Stuart A. Thompson)
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Instant voice cloning, on a MacBook Air, for free, no Elevenlabs
Chinese e‑commerce giant Alibaba has released new Qwen models for generating and cloning voices earlier this year. Which means: With only a couple of seconds of recorded material, we can generate a cloned voice recording. On a four year old MacBook Air. Instantly. At no cost. This used to be the domain of Elevenlabs. The...
The vibe is Palantir cosplay: World Monitor by Elie Habib is a real-time “situational awareness” dashboard with threat feeds, geopolitical maps, and a three-stage AI classification pipeline. He calls it a “weekend hack.”
Slop Evader: A search tool that will only return content created before ChatGPT’s first public release on November 30, 2022. (Tega Brain)
“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)
I tried ChatGPT Agent and Perplexity Comet to actually get things done
I've been playing with ChatGPT Agent and Perplexity Comet—and I'm not sure if I'm witnessing the future of productivity or just an elaborate way to make simple tasks more complicated. The premise sounds great: tell an AI what you want, and it'll just… do it. Book your train tickets, find that obscure book, curate a...
Rename screenshots with a description automatically with Gemini–for free
Screenshots. I take lots of them. I need something I see in my browser for a presentation. I want to remember something I see on social media on my phone. So. Many. Screenshots. And then what? Google has launched a tool to access Gemini 2.5 Pro from the command line. It’s called Gemini-CLI, and it...
Testing Dia: The AI Browser Betting on a Future Beyond Chrome and Siri
For the last ten days, I've been using Dia, a new AI-enhanced web browser. So far, it's not going great. But first, let's look at the premise. Several players are racing to slap AI onto our everyday web use, betting that we're not ditching the whole "sitting in front of a screen to get things...
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)
