Chatting with a bot won’t make it smarter for you or other users. Models have no memory of previous conversations. To mimic a chat, previous inputs and outputs must be sent to the model each time. Training happens once using massive datasets before deployment. (Your data might still be stored by the company for future...
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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...
There’s no neat technical fix for that: The more useful an agent is, the more access it needs, and the more access it has, the riskier it gets. Yes, it’s about the Moltbot/OpenClaw agent craze, but also, it’s not. (Dan Hon, Things That Caught My Attention)
Your AI agent is a snitch: We’re chatting on Signal, enjoying encryption, right? But your DIY productivity agent is piping the whole thing back to Anthropic. (John Scott-Railton, X)
Why you shouldn’t use AI browsers like Atlas or Comet with logins to email, SharePoint or any other online service right now—even though that’s a major part of what makes an AI browser interesting. (Simon Willison’s Weblog)
I Hate My Friend: The chatbot-enabled Friend necklace eavesdrops on your life and provides a running commentary that’s snarky and unhelpful. Worse, it can also make the people around you uneasy. (Kylie Robison, Wired)
“Own the interface, control the signal and reshape the economics”: The next browser wars are here—and AI wants the ad dollars too. (Krystal Scanlon, Digiday)
How AI Companies Turn Your Browser Into Their Business Model
OpenAI will launch a browser, Perplexity has just released Comet, and YouTubers are going full clickbait mode: "NEW AI Browser is INSANE!🤯" (Really? It's insane to chat with tabs? That word gets used pretty liberally these days, considering it's AI-bros getting excited about summarizing five YouTube videos simultaneously while doing important thought leadership. Anyhow.) The...
“Use responsibly when recording others”: ChatGPT Record captures and summarizes meetings and voice notes.
Seamless MCP-powered integrations sound appealing, but raise performance and security concerns. (Shrivu’s Substack)
Teach AI your face in a few clicks: A beginner’s guide to finetuning FLUX
Low-Rank Adaptation, LoRA, allows for fine-tuning without the need to retrain the entire model. You can teach FLUX a specific style or a specific aesthetic, even a face. A while back, there was a big trend of uploading a dozen photos to some shady app, maybe paying a few euros, and getting a set of...
