Intelligent Machines 853

Disinformation expert Craig Silverman joins the crew to break down why AI makes scams and fake news easier, faster, and nearly impossible to spot—while Big Tech quietly profits. If you think spotting digital deception is tough now, wait until you hear how deep the rabbit hole goes.

• Claude Code
• Indonesia and Malaysia block Grok over non-consensual, sexualized deepfakes
• Apple taps Google to power a new Siri and future AI tools
• Introducing Cowork
• "In China, driverless delivery vans have become a total meme, they plow through crumbling roads, fresh concrete, motorcycles, anything. Nothing stops them." : r/SelfDrivingCars
• Meta refocuses on AI hardware as metaverse layoffs begin
• Creepy Link
• Matthew McConaughey has secured eight trademarks of himself from the USPTO in the past several months to protect his likeness and voice from unauthorized AI use
• Senate Passes a Bill That Would Let Nonconsensual Deepfake Victims Sue
• X says Grok will no longer edit images of real people into bikinis
• Newsom Vows to Stop Proposed Billionaire Tax in California
• J.R.R. Tolkien, Using a Tape Recorder for the First Time, Reads from The Hobbit for 30 Minutes (1952) | Open Culture
• Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public
• Postal Arbitrage
• New protein tests
• The Traitors Season 4
• WikiFlix
• MTV REWIND - 33,000+ Music Videos • Zero Ads • Zero Algorithms
• ‘A bombshell’: doubt cast on discovery of microplastics throughout human body

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Links

• Indonesia and Malaysia block Grok over non-consensual, sexualized deepfakes | TechCrunch
• Apple taps Google to power a new Siri and future AI tools
• Introducing Cowork | Claude
• "In China, driverless delivery vans have become a total meme, they plow through crumbling roads, fresh concrete, motorcycles, anything. Nothing stops them." : r/SelfDrivingCars
• Meta refocuses on AI hardware as metaverse layoffs begin
• Creepy Link
• Matthew McConaughey has secured eight trademarks of himself from the USPTO in the past several months to protect his likeness and voice from unauthorized AI use (Ben Fritz/Wall Street Journal)
• Senate Passes a Bill That Would Let Nonconsensual Deepfake Victims Sue
• X says Grok will no longer edit images of real people into bikinis
• Newsom Vows to Stop Proposed Billionaire Tax in California
• J.R.R. Tolkien, Using a Tape Recorder for the First Time, Reads from The Hobbit for 30 Minutes (1952) | Open Culture
• Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public
• Postal Arbitrage
• New protein tests
• The Traitors Season 4
• WikiFlix
• MTV REWIND - 33,000+ Music Videos • Zero Ads • Zero Algorithms
• ‘A bombshell’: doubt cast on discovery of microplastics throughout human body