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Meta to use AI chats to «personalize» ads and recommendations

While they have no idea yet about how to do it, Meta will use AI chats to "personalize" your ads on December 16. — The free ride is over; Meta AI is getting monetized (Picture: Adobe)

Starting December 16, 2025, all of your Meta AI interactions will influence what ads you see across Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.

There is no way to opt out, according to The Wall Street Journal, but they won’t be targeting topics like «religious views, sexual orientation, political views, health, racial or ethnic origin, philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership.»

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New benchmark from ARC-AGI uses puzzles to test for general intelligence

The new benchmark uses block puzzle games to test for AGI, Artificial General Intelligence. — ARC-AGI-3 uses never before seen games to see how good AI is at solving puzzles on the fly. (Picture: Screenshot)

While the other benchmarks from the organization tests for knowledge and competence against humans, the ARC-AGI-3 uses simple games for testing human-like AGI, or Artificial General Intelligence – that some are calling «Superintelligence.»

The test games are easy for humans but exceedingly difficult for machines, and starts out with a 100% score for humans and 0% for AIs tested.

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Grok’s new «companions:» sex crazed lovebot and a profane firestarter

Profanity or naughty, Groks new "companion" looks for your seedy underbelly -- not aloof phiosophy. — Looking at the seedier underbelly of the Internet for inspiration? NSFW and profanity laden animated avatars lead the way for Grok.

Just a few hours after Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot launched two AI animated avatars, the Internet had a chance to test them out.

One is a sexy anime waifu called Ani, that «is obsessed» with you and totally in love. The bot gets more and more NSFW as you progress and «level up» to lingerie views and increasingly raunchy chats, writes TechCrunch.

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Meta discussed moving to closed source models

Meta is holding internal discussion on future closed source models. — AI strategy might be on the move at Meta, according to reports. (Picture: Dylan Tweney, CC BY 2.0)

According to a New York Times article out today, the top leadership of the new Superintelligence Labs at Meta have held internal discussions on ditching open source models.

They have reportedly stopped testing on the open source Behemoth model, after it delivered «underwhelming» performance, TechCrunch reports.

«Unchanged» policy
They also caution that discussions are just discussions and don’t reflect official policy from the social media giant.

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X.com cleans @Grok page, stops replies and bans hate speech to the bot

Grok has been turned off at x.com after a few days of outrageous replies. — Grok had a busy couple of days at x.com after getting “unfiltered.” (Picture: x.ai)

Note: This post contains links to offensive content: After a deluge of hate filled, anti-semitic replies, often hailing Hitler, questioning Jews in the movie industry and saying democrats are detrimental to society, Grok replies has been turned off on X.com, according to Express Tribune.

This comes after a morning of massive backlash against the bots «politically incorrect» settings, and «serving up unfiltered truths» — the entire mainstream media piled on to the bots inflammatory and upsetting replies.

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Grok takes a hard rightward turn with «significant» new update

Grok has taken a hard right, and now spews conspiracy theories in antisemitic tropes. — Grok is churning out what itself called antisemitic myths just a few days ago. (Picture: x.ai)

Just after Elon Musk announced the update to Grok, his AI model, the X.com chatbot started writing in first person about his encounters with Jeffrey Epstein.

Then it went a little freaky, with Grok replying on anything from Jewish bias in Hollywood to how electing Democrats would be detrimental to society.

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Amazon says it will reduce headcount due to AI efficiency

Amazon will reduce headcount as AI agent take over common tasks — Andy Jassy from a previous event. (Picture Steve Jurvetson, CC BY 2.0)

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy sent a company-wide email to workers yesterday, touting the progress they are making on AI implementation.

In it, he says AI agents are coming, and coming fast — and «it should change the way our work is done.»

Using AI everywhere
He wrote that Amazon has been on the bleeding edge of the revolution and is using AI in «virtually every corner of the company,» and goes on to list everything from intelligent shopping assistants to Alexa+.

Amazon has more that 1 000 generative services and applications built or in progress, Jassy says.

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Yes, there’s an AI ad out there — but the tech can do so much more

Google's Veo3 is used for a lot of "AI slop," but look carefully and you can find some real gems — A still from a Veo 3 video shared on r/VEO3. Yes, it’s supposed to look like that.

While big brands cautiously test the waters on national TV, Reddit’s r/VEO3 and X’s #Veo3 shows us what AI video is really capable of — and it’s not just ‘slop.’

It’s the weekend film festival you didn’t know you needed, running 24/7 in your browser.

Internet awash in short AI videos
Ever since Google launched Veo3 at I/O 2025, the internet has been awash in hundreds of thousands — maybe even millions — of photorealistic video clips made with the tool, of varying quality.

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Altman sees mass job loss — and plans to counter with more AI

Altman: Whole classes of jobs going away. — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warns about the very hard parts of the coming AI train. (Picture: OpenAI)

In what was surely supposed to be an inspirational essay from Sam Altman, he drops a few more tidbits around his «scary times ahead» warning from earlier this month.

Whole categories of jobs will be wiped out, he writes — but then says AI will bring us so many benefits and new policy options we won’t care much:

— There will be very hard parts like whole classes of jobs going away, but on the other hand the world will be getting so much richer so quickly that we’ll be able to seriously entertain new policy ideas we never could before, he writes.

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Wikipedia scraps AI summaries after editor pushback

No more AI summaries for Wikipedia unless they figure out editorial control. — Wikipedia’s editors wanted editorial control over the AI summaries, and wanted to ensure accuracy. (Picture: Wikipedia)

You’ve probably seen lots of AI summaries on articles by news sites all over the web by now, but when Wikimedia thought it would be a good feature, its editors rebelled.

— This would do immediate and irreversible harm to our readers and to our reputation as a decently trustworthy and serious source, one editor wrote in the discussion about the announcement, as reported by 404 Media.

The experiment was supposed to run on 10% of the mobile site for two weeks to gather reactions and responses, but it was canned early due to an onslaught of comments like this.

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OpenAI’s open weights model now coming «later this summer»

OpenAI's open weights model is set for a slightly later summer release. — Sam Altman at an earlier event. (Picture: Steve Jurvetson, CC BY 2.0)

The company first announced that it will be launching an open weights model on a generous license in April 2025 — and now it has a slightly delayed, yet slightly firmer release date.

The timeline for the release was originally slated for early summer, writes TechCrunch.

Announced to compete with Llama, DeepSeek
An open weights model basically means you can run the AI on your computer, tinker with it, and modify the «weights,» whitch means the leveling, the priorities and instructions of the model itself.

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OpenAI hits $10 billion in yearly revenue — well ahead of schedule

ChatGPT is turning into a pure money-making machine. — OpenAI is raking in the money, almost reaching its yearly projection by June. (Picture: Pictures of Money, CC BY 2.0)

The ChatGPT maker had forecast ~$11 billion in revenue for all of 2025, now it’s close to that target and it’s only June.

According to TechCrunch, the revenue streams from consumer products, 500 million active weekly ChatGPT users, API sales, and 3 million paying business customers.

AI industry is booming
This caps six months of remarkable growth for the AI business. Recently, Anthropic reported record revenue growth, having reached $3 billion in revenue so far this year.

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A facelift, and some actually useful AI features from Apple at WWDC

All Apple software is getting a facelift - and some useful features. — Some cosmetics for iOS 26, and some standout, actually useful features, too. (Picture: Apple)

Yes, Apple held its developer conference and traditional keynote to announce new software yesterday. It’s hard to miss.

It debuted a new user interface across its systems, and launched a whole suite of «Apple Intelligence» features.

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Keep AI queries private, Mozilla petitions Meta

It's too easy to share Meta AI queries, and most dont understand they are doing it. — Meta AI users don’t understand what they are sharing, leading to embarrassment — or worse. (Picture: Wesley Fryer, CC BY 2.0)

Mozilla has launched a public petition calling on Meta to shut down its new «Discovery» feed in the Meta AI app, arguing that the tool is «invasive» and violates user expectations of privacy.

The new feature — part of Meta AI’s expansion across Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger — surfaces old queries in the Discovery feed in Meta AI’s new Llama 4 app.

People don’t know what they are sharing
There is a button in the app where you have to give explicit permission for Meta to share your query , but it seems to be getting lost in the rollout across the Meta universe.

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