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Meta could ax up to one-third of its ‘metaverse’ budget next year

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Amazon’s bet that AI benchmarks don’t matter

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Chamberlain blocks smart home integrations with its garage door openers

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Google is experimentally replacing news headlines with AI clickbait nonsense

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Glasses aren’t the only AI wearable that Meta’s after.

Reuters reports that Meta just bought Limitless, an AI pendant that listens to and summarizes your conversations. It’s a burgeoning category of wearables (see: Bee AI which was bought by Amazon) and hints that like Google, Meta’s interested in perhaps building its own ecosystem of AI-powered gadgets.

Amazon’s terrible AI anime dubs are even scummier than you think.

It was bad enough that Amazon thought people would enjoy English / Spanish versions of Banana Fish and No Game, No Life Zero that were shoddily dubbed using generative AI. But Anime News Network reports that the streamer didn’t even bother to ask the original studios behind those series if that kind of dubbing was ok.