El Kaiser and J.D. discuss the Humane AI pin’s public release and its flameout with critics and consumers. But there’s no slowing the wave of AI-enhanced products hurtling into the world, so this week’s episode ponders just a few of them — and the impact on life as we know it at the moment. All this and more on PTJ 375!
- How the Humane AI Pin Flopped (The New York Times)
- Humane’s AI Pin Wants to Free You From Your Phone (The New York Times)
- Humane, the startup behind the AI Pin, in talks with HP, telecoms to sell (CNBC)
- Apple to Debut Passwords App in Challenge to 1Password, LastPass (Bloomberg)
- Adobe’s new terms of service unacceptably gives them access to all of your projects, for free (AppleInsider)
- Adobe terms clarified: Will never own your work, or use it for AI training (9to5Mac)
- Suicide Squad left a $200 million hole in WBD’s video game division (The Verge)
- What a TikTok ban in the US could mean for you (Associated Press)
- Artificially Intelligent Help for Planning Your Summer Vacation (The New York Times)
- Apple apologizes after piano crushing ad backlash (BBC)
- The Acolyte (StarWars.com)
- Star Trek: Discovery (StarTrek.com)