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‘Buyers Aren't Yet Opening Their Wallets’: AI-Generated Assets Are Flooding Online Marketplaces, But Consumers Are Snubbing AI for Human-Made Products

Consumers are getting fed up with AI slop found on online marketplaces, and companies are beginning to take note.

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UK internet age checks have boosted rogue adult sites, says Pornhub

Country’s most-visited porn website lobbies MPs for changes to flagship Online Safety Act

Who is really buying China’s humanoid robots?

Companies are selling machines to government-backed centres that then sell training data back to robot makers

NASA calls off mission to rescue Swift gamma-ray observatory

Without a rescue, NASA’s Swift Observatory is expected to reenter the atmosphere later this year.

The search for consciousness inside LLMs

Scientists are trying to figure out whether algorithms could one day wake up and feel

Stripe didn't really buy OpenRouter because of the 'singularity'

What does a payments giant want with a startup that routes prompts between different AI models? Stripe says it's because of "the singularity" but it's really for a far more real and powerful reason.

Amazon isn't giving up on Jeff Bezos' drone deliveries dream—and after 13 years of turbulence, the momentum is finally shifting

Thirteen years ago, Jeff Bezos strode into a room on the set of CBS’ 60 Minutes and revealed Amazon’s first delivery drone, predicting 30-minute drop-offs of airborne packages within the next four to five years. Ever since, the e-commerce giant has struggled to live up to that promise.

Waymo's cheaper, next-gen robotaxi is now open to all riders in these three cities

The next-generation robotaxi, called the Waymo Ojai, is central to the company's push towards mass scale, and eventually, profitability.

Google and the UK think changing flights paths could cut down on climate change

Hundreds of commercial flights will be told to change their paths over the northeastern Atlantic Ocean during the next two winters to show how minor altitude adjustments can reduce aviation’s climate impact.

OpenAI seeks to one-up Anthropic with new customer privacy protections

A competition is developing between OpenAI and Anthropic over who can provide the best privacy protections for enterprise customer data.

Stripe is buying the AI gateway OpenRouter.

The acquisition will combine Stripe’s payments platform with OpenRouter, which connects developers to a range of AI models while aggregating the costs of using each one. Stripe hasn’t disclosed the terms of the deal, but The New York Times reports that it’s purchasing the startup for $7.5 billion.