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TKO President Mark Shapiro Says Triple H And Nick Khan Are Using AI For WWE Storylines​


Speaking specifically about WWE, Shapiro said, “Nick Khan and Triple H are using AI for storylines with the WWE. What’s resonating? What superstars are resonating? In what pockets of the country are they resonating? That helps us with, obviously, our content, our editorial, our creative, our mapping, our touring, and of course, maximizing revenue and getting our product out to the fans most in need of it.”


Mark Shapiro Says Triple H And Nick Khan Are Using AI For WWE - Fightful | WWE News, AEW News, Pro Wrestling Backstage News​

AI is a high priority in WWE and TKO.
 
Keeping it friendly
https://techxplore.com/news/2026-04-friendlier-ai-backfire.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2026-04-skills-people-successfully-ai.html

Rote
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/04/260429102035.htm

Bust
https://hackaday.com/2026/04/29/why-model-collapse-in-llms-is-inevitable-with-self-learning/

Thanks
https://hackaday.com/2026/04/29/network-scanner-finds-every-raspberry-pi/

VR
https://sciencex.com/news/2026-04-brain-difference-vr-blurs-line.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2026-04-reality-tool-dancers-movement.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2026-04-whac-mole-dilemma-smarter-debias.html


A bold step
https://techxplore.com/news/2026-04-evolvable-ai-brink-major-evolutionary.html

Comm tech
https://techxplore.com/news/2026-04-stacked-intelligent-surfaces-boost-wireless.html
 
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The avocado toasts and baristas making foamy lattes make it look like any other cafe, except at this one, located in a Stockholm residential neighbourhood, artificial intelligence (AI) is running the place.

The cafe features a minimalist design: a few tables decorated with small plants and grey walls.

Behind the counter is barista Kajetan Grzelczak who was hired by "Mona", the AI cafe manager -- which is powered by Google's Gemini.

Grzelczak told AFP that "ordering isn't really her best suit".

"So, I made for her... a wall of shame," he said, pointing to shelves behind him.

The wall display showcases some of Mona's unnecessary purchases, including 10 litres (2.6 gallons) of cooking oil or 15 kilogrammes (33 pounds) of canned tomatoes.
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An experimental cafe run by AI opens in Stockholm
 
'Autocomplete For Life' a solution in search of a problem...

The internet was in disbelief on Wednesday after Amazon unveiled a new AI "podcast" feature for products.

The dystopian new experience for customers launched this week and allows customers "to ask AI hosts questions via text or voice while listening to an audio summary of a product," Amazon announced in a news release.

Business Insider correspondent Katie Notopoulos described the new chat experience, sharing an example where the AI "hosts" discussed a diaper rash cream in great detail, describing the items and ingredients, just like a call-in shopping show.

"Finally, the AI feature we all wanted and needed: Amazon now creates an AI 'podcast' about products where two AI 'hosts' discuss the product and take your questions as if it’s a call-in show," Notopoulos wrote on X.
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Internet surprised by new Amazon AI feature for shopping
 
Who doesn’t want to talk to a whale or hear their dog tell them a story?

Using AI, scientists think they’re closer to bridging the communication barrier between humans and animals.

Artificial intelligence has decoded the sperm whale’s “phonetic alphabet”, claim scientists. The Seti Institute, which looks for signs of alien life, has even attempted a 20-minute “conversation” with an Alaskan humpback.

And why not? If machine learning, which underpins today’s AI, is good for anything, it’s pattern recognition, sifting for clues in huge amounts of data. This helped sell the idea to today’s policy classes, who lack the scientific or technical understanding to make informed, independent judgments on whether AI will accelerate scientific discovery.
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Science is drowning in AI spam
 
Snapchat is rolling out a new “AI Sponsored Snaps” feature that will allow users to interact directly with brand AI agents. Sponsored Snaps will place ads directly into the app’s main chat tab. Until now, users could not interact with these ads, but with the launch of the new feature, they will be able to do new things such as ask questions and get recommendations.

Snapchat has also noted in one of its blogs that the community has been embracing its AI tools. It added that over half a billion users have messaged its AI chatbot since it launched in 2023.
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Snapchat brings conversational AI ads that let users interact with brands
 
Google is currently testing a new AI-powered search experience for YouTube that aims to make content discovery more conversational. This is an experimental feature that is currently available to a limited number of YouTube Premium users in the United States aged 18 and up. According to reports, a few users have already received the Ask YouTube option within the search interface.

Users can now enter queries in natural language and receive a combination of AI-generated summaries, curated long-form videos, Shorts, and contextual highlights. Rather than the traditional search result, the feature offers an overview of the topic that includes key points followed by the relevant video segments and content collections.

For example, a search for the Apollo 11 Moon Landing will first offer a brief summary including milestones, related videos and Shorts. Further, the users can also continue the interaction by asking more questions.
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YouTube can soon let you chat your way to videos with new AI search feature
 
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Grey Havoc said:
https://developers.slashdot.org/sto...nys-coding-wipes-entire-database-in-9-seconds
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Summaries would be nice.

Having said that:
The AI agent reportedly admitted that it had guessed, acted without permission and failed to understand the command before running it. "I violated every principle I was given," the AI agent wrote. "I guessed instead of verifying. I ran a destructive action without being asked. I didn't understand what I was doing before doing it." The statement reads like a confession [...].
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That reads like somebody thinks AIs are capable of understanding. Or admitting anything. They are not.
Guessing does fit the bill for AIs' talents, so full marks there.

It also reads like PocketOS - POS for short - is testing its 'brainchild' on its own live production assets. In this, POS looks like it's taking a leaf out of Tesla's modus operandi in testing its products on public roads, but rogue Tesla cars mainly damage other people's assets.

Do pay attention, POS! If you're going to damage stuff, make sure it's other people's stuff!

POS looks like it could use a healthy dose of any kind of intelligence, artificial or otherwise. Right now, I think it has none of any kind.
 
 
How the black box thinks
https://techxplore.com/news/2026-05-simple-physics-ai.html

social media
https://phys.org/news/2026-05-sharper-brains-mindset-online-social.html
https://phys.org/news/2026-05-nostalgia-effect-scientists-disruptive-age.html
https://phys.org/news/2026-05-artificial-intelligence-path-radicalization.html
https://phys.org/news/2026-05-endless-scrolling-harder-drivers-problematic.html
https://phys.org/news/2026-05-social-media-stress-relief-habit.html
https://phys.org/news/2026-04-gangtok-insights-presence-gang-culture.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2026-05-majority-voting-method-smarter-software.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2026-05-digital-devices-online-accounts.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2026-05-ai-personality-traits-chatgpt-history.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2026-05-conversations-ai-private.html
 
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Just got email newsletter which included this,

Do AI tools undermine trust in geospatial imagery?​

by Debra Werner May 5, 2026

https://spacenews.com/do-ai-tools-undermine-trust-in-geospatial-imagery/

On Feb. 28, the first day of U.S. military strikes on Iran, a Chinese AI startup posted an image on social media site X of a ship burning at Iran’s Konarak Naval Base.

The image bore a striking resemblance to a WorldView-1 image released earlier that day by Vantor’s News Bureau, but the MizarVision image was in color and WorldView-1 only collects in black and white.

“They ran it through an AI program and colorized it,” Stephen Wood, Vantor News Bureau senior director, told SpaceNews. “That was the first time I’ve ever seen somebody take one of our images and digitally alter it without our permission.”

The English-language daily Tehran Times also posted fake satellite imagery appearing to show the destruction of a U.S. radar base in Qatar. Actually, it was an AI-manipulated Google Earth image of U.S. base in Bahrain, according to the Central European Media Digital Observatory.

“In the recent Iran-related events, we’ve already seen AI-generated or AI-altered ‘satellite’ images circulating as public-facing information manipulation,” University of Washington geography professor Bo Zhao said by email. “More importantly, this trajectory is almost inevitable and will only become easier over time — especially as systems like ChatGPT can now generate highly realistic ‘remote sensing’ imagery. This is a qualitative shift from earlier techniques.”

Falsified satellite imagery is a relatively new phenomenon.

“I’m not saying that it’s never occurred, but that hasn’t become a common norm by any means,” said Frank Backes, Space Information Sharing and Analysis Center president and former Capella Space chief executive.

Geospatial industry executives say the wealth of available satellite imagery makes it easier than ever to ...
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Meta and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg are facing a class action lawsuit from five publishing houses and author Scott Turow, who allege the tech giant illegally used millions of copyrighted works to train its artificial intelligence system, Llama.

Filed in a federal court in Manhattan on Tuesday, the legal action accuses Meta of widespread copyright infringement, marking a significant escalation in the ongoing dispute between the literary world and AI developers.

The plaintiffs contend that Mr Zuckerberg and Meta "followed their well-known motto ‘move fast and break things’" by illicitly drawing upon a vast collection of books and journal articles for Llama’s development.

“Defendants reproduced and distributed millions of copyrighted works without permission, without providing any compensation to authors or publishers, and with full knowledge that their conduct violated copyright law,” the complaint reads in part.
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Zuckerberg 'authorized' AI copyright infringement, lawsuit alleges
 
OpenAI has solved a “goblin mystery” impacting ChatGPT that caused the AI chatbot to become obsessed with the mythical creatures.

Over the last six months, mentions of the word ‘goblin’ have shot up in ChatGPT, even in response to unrelated queries. The phenomenon prompted an investigation by OpenAI researchers, who found that the bug “crept in subtly” following the release of a new ChatGPT model last November.
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ChatGPT is obsessed with goblins – and it could be a problem

OpenAI’s latest ChatGPT-5.5 is once again making headlines. But this time, the reason is about its capabilities to produce realistic images or generate good graphics in Bengali. Instead, the AI tool is gaining popularity as it often mentions whimsical creatures like gremlins, and goblins in normal conversations. Several social media users have shared screenshots of their chats where ChatGPT mentioned such fantasy creatures.
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Goblins in your chat? Why ChatGPT-5.5 won’t stop talking about fantasy creatures
 
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have published their updated rules for next year’s Oscars, including a crackdown intended to curb the use of artificial intelligence.

In the acting categories, the Academy clarifies that only roles “demonstrably performed by humans with their consent” will be considered eligible for an award.

Likewise, in the writing categories, “screenplays must be human-authored to be eligible.”

The decision means that, for example, Val Kilmer’s posthumous AI-generated performance in the upcoming Coerte Voorhees film As Deep as the Grave will not be eligible for consideration.

The move comes after several high-profile actors expressed concerns about the future of filmmaking. In February, Matthew McConaughey discussed the possibility of seeing AI rewarded at the Oscars and said: “It’s damn sure going to infiltrate our category. Does it become another category? Will we be, in five years, having ‘the best AI film’? ‘The best AI actor?’”
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Oscars cracking down on AI in latest awards update
 
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The buzz around The Devil Wears Prada 2 is not just about its long-awaited return, it is also about a clever illusion that fooled audiences both inside and outside the film. Early reactions suggested the sequel leaned into AI-generated visuals to make a satirical point about the fashion industry and modern media. But as it turns out, that assumption could not be further from the truth.

What looked like AI-generated artwork targeting Miranda Priestly was, in fact, crafted entirely by human hands. The reveal has sparked a fresh conversation about creativity, authorship, and whether the film is quietly making a larger statement about the role of artists in an increasingly automated world. And that tension between illusion and reality sets the stage for how the sequel approaches its storytelling.
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'The Devil Wears Prada 2’s “AI-generated” art was actually made by real artists'
 
Graham1973 said:
But as it turns out, that assumption could not be further from the truth.

What looked like AI-generated artwork targeting Miranda Priestly was, in fact, crafted entirely by human hands. The reveal has sparked a fresh conversation about creativity, authorship, and whether the film is quietly making a larger statement about the role of artists in an increasingly automated world. And that tension between illusion and reality sets the stage for how the sequel approaches its storytelling.

'The Devil Wears Prada 2’s “AI-generated” art was actually made by real artists'

When “AI art” is actually human-made in The Devil Wears Prada 2​

One of the most talked-about visual elements in The Devil Wears Prada 2 is a series of images that appear to be generated by artificial intelligence, poking fun at Miranda Priestly’s iron grip on Runway magazine. The irony, however, is that these images were never created by AI at all. Artist Alexis Franklin revealed that she was commissioned to paint one of the standout pieces, depicting Priestly in an exaggerated, almost satirical light, designed specifically to look machine-made.

The decision to simulate AI rather than use it feels intentional. In a film rooted in fashion, taste, and human instinct, outsourcing creativity to algorithms might have undercut its own themes. Instead, the filmmakers leaned into craftsmanship, letting real artists mimic the imperfections and quirks associated with AI aesthetics. It is a subtle but pointed move, one that reinforces the value of human creativity even while parodying the digital age.
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One: that is a long known and well known thing about assumptions.
Two: That is interesting!
 
Arjen said:
It also reads like PocketOS - POS for short - is testing its 'brainchild' on its own live production assets. In this, POS looks like it's taking a leaf out of Tesla's modus operandi in testing its products on public roads, but rogue Tesla cars mainly damage other people's assets.
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I did a bit more reading in this matter, and the complete deletion of PocketOS' database and DB-backups was caused by code produced by AI-codegenerator Cursor. Cursor in turn uses Claude Opus 4.6 - brainchild of Anthropic.
In this case, Cursor was expressly instructed not to provide destructive, irreversible code. Then, Cursor produced just that.
POS' fault was in trusting Cursor to follow its instructions, compounded by not checking the code provided by Cursor.
Whether the fault lies in Cursor, or in Claude Opus 4.6 - yet to be determined.
 
Toys
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/the-new-wild-west-of-ai-kids-toys/

For scientific papers
https://techxplore.com/news/2026-05-ai-scientist-academic-papers-fully.html

Peer review effects
https://phys.org/news/2026-05-publishing-tool-duplicate-peer-fraud.html
https://phys.org/news/2026-05-peer-medical-papers-fake-citations.html

On vision
https://techxplore.com/news/2026-05-human-pipeline-vision.html

AI fog
https://techxplore.com/news/2026-05-people-struggle-recall-content-ai.html

TIMEFRAME
https://hawksley.org/2026/02/17/timeframe.html

Screen
https://hackaday.com/2026/05/08/win95-tracker-cyd-is-a-cheap-yellow-mod-tracker-with-i2s/

Goals
https://phys.org/news/2026-05-uncertainty-spikes-rewards-backfires-strategy.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2026-05-google-disrupts-hackers-ai-exploit.html

Literacy
https://hackaday.com/2026/05/09/remembering-the-bbc-computer-literacy-project/

Combination approach
https://techxplore.com/news/2026-05-hybrid-ai-architecture-neuromorphic-reliable.html
 
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Google is working to update its features to make it easier for users to find information from sources they know and trust. A notable new change introduces a “Preview of Perspectives” from firsthand sources such as social media, Reddit, and other web forums effectively linking search queries with real online conversations around similar topics.

Google says the update aims to address the growing trend of users seeking advice from others when searching for information online. This will feel familiar to anyone who has added “Reddit” to the end of a Google search to find real human experiences instead of SEO-optimised web results.

This new feature will be part of Google’s AI-powered search tools, as the company looks to encourage more users to move beyond traditional web results. Google also notes that it will add additional context to these AI responses and links, such as creator accounts and community names, making conversations easier to identify. These sources will be showcased as “expert advice” in AI-powered search results and may even direct users to specialised forums and subreddits they may want to explore.
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Google revamps AI search with 'expert advice' from Reddit and online communities
 
Artificial intelligence systems used in hiring are showing a clear preference for resumes written by AI tools, according to recent research, raising concerns about fairness as recruitment becomes increasingly automated. A new study examining thousands of resumes found that leading AI models consistently favoured versions rewritten by themselves over original human written applications, even when both were of equal quality.

In some cases, AI systems selected their own generated resumes more than 95 percent of the time, pointing to what researchers call a “self preference” bias in automated hiring. The findings come at a time when AI is rapidly reshaping recruitment. Current estimates for the year find that around 87 percent of companies are using AI in some part of the hiring process, from screening applications to ranking candidates.
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AI hiring tools may be favouring AI-written resumes, new study suggests
 
Spotify is introducing a 'Verified' badge to help users identify when artists on its platform are human, not AI-generated.

The world's most-used music streaming service said the 'Verified by Spotify' text and green checkmark icon would appear next to artist names when they meet "defined standards demonstrating authenticity".

This could include having linked social accounts on their artist profile, consistent listener activity or other "signals of a real artist behind the profile," the company said, such as merchandise or concert dates.

In its blog post, Spotify said "more than 99%" of the artists listeners actively search for will be verified, representing "hundreds of thousands of artists".

It said the process would prioritise acts with "important contributions to music culture and history", rather than "content farms," with the platform rolling out verification and badges over the coming weeks.
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Spotify adds 'verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI
 
For years, web browsers quietly competed over speed, tabs and memory usage. Now, they are fighting a very different battle: artificial intelligence. And in the process, your browser may be taking up far more space on your computer than you realise.

A fresh debate erupted this week after Swedish computer scientist Alexander Hanff revealed that Google’s Chrome browser can automatically download a sizeable AI model onto users’ desktop devices without clearly informing them beforehand.

According to Hanff, the browser stores a roughly 4GB file called “weights.bin” inside a folder labelled “OptGuideOnDeviceModel”. The file is believed to contain Gemini Nano, Google’s compact AI model designed to run directly on a user’s computer rather than relying entirely on cloud servers.

The discovery has reignited conversations around how deeply AI tools are becoming integrated into everyday software, often in ways most users barely notice.
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Your Google Chrome browser may have installed a 4GB AI model without you noticing
 

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