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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jatee Kearsley, the owner and pastry chef of Je T’aime Patisserie, which offers a “Black girl twist” on French pastries in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. It has been edited for length and clarity. Loading audio narration… In April 2024, I sat in my…
In 10 years, there might not be many jobs, but there sure will be a lot of spin bikes. (At least, if you believe this ad.)The Belgian AI startup AiCandy released a new advertisement for their company, mocking AI’s skyrocketing demand for energy. It imagines a 2036 in which humans…
A sad baby monkey has turned an Ikea plushie into a viral must-have.Punch, also known as Panchi-kun, is a seven-month-old Japanese macaque born in July. His mother abandoned him shortly after birth, and he was later rejected by other monkeys at Ichikawa City Zoo in Japan. To soothe him, zookeepers…
Netflix isn’t amused by ByteDance’s new AI video tool.The streaming giant sent a cease-and-desist letter to the China-based TikTok parent on Tuesday night, calling its new generative AI model Seedance 2.0 “a high-speed piracy engine.”Seedance turned heads last week after a user created a viral video of people resembling Tom…
AI researcher and author Gary Marcus is worried about those viral agents and their social network.Animated lobsters flooded X last week. First, it was OpenClaw (previously called Moltbot and Clawdbot before Anthropic came knocking). The AI agent runs locally and can independently make decisions on common consumer apps without human…
