660: The Bendy Piece

NFTs & crypto, oh my; Google ruled a monopolist in search; you can't run an AI company ethically - with plenty of examples; Grokking without consent; Google's targeting "unknown" minors loophole; MetaAI celebrity voices; watermarking ChatGPT challenges; emotionally hooked on chatbots; Neuralink's second patient implant; Synchro's stent approach; Cybertruck spottings; Deadpool & Wolverine; American Conspiracy: the Octopus Murders; 2024 Olympics; enraging Google, Uber ads; living that iPad life; Humanes being returned; Sonos $30 million app fail; Lego Star Wars; advanced hinges; DarJar; losing power; medical system problems.
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Google 'is a monopolist' in search, US judge rules in antitrust case (www.engadget.c...)
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Elon Musk sues OpenAI, Sam Altman for making a “fool” out of him (arstechnica.co...)
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X agrees to pause EU data processing for training Grok (techcrunch.com...)
Meta and Google secretly targeted minors on CZcams with Instagram ads (www.theverge.c...)
Meta is reportedly offering millions to get Hollywood voices into its AI projects (www.engadget.c...)
OpenAI confirms it’s looking into text watermarking for ChatGPT that could expose cheating students (www.engadget.c...)
OpenAI Warns Users Could Become Emotionally Hooked on Its Voice Mode (www.wired.com/...)
Neuralink successfully implants its chip into a second patient's brain (www.engadget.c...)
As Neuralink Implants Second Subject's Brain, First Patient Says His Doesn't Work as Well Anymore (futurism.com/n...)
Gates, Bezos back $75M round for Synchron's drill-free brain-computer interface implant (www.fiercebiot...)
What Synchron leaders learned from developing a stent-based BCI (www.medicaldes...)
Fiery Cybertruck Death Spurs Federal Probe (gizmodo.com/fi...)
MEDIA CANDY
Deadpool & Wolverine (www.marvel.com...)
American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders (www.netflix.co...)
Google will no longer air an Olympics ad that showed a child using AI to write a fan letter (www.engadget.c....