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AI backlash hits fountain pens, with delightful results.

Write Love Pens, a small pen and stationery shop, had initially used AI-generated images (including one of a pen with two clips on the cap) to advertise surprise boxes that the shop puts together. After getting yelled at on fountain pen Reddit, the shop’s owner apologized, and replaced the AI images with extremely cute amateur drawings.

What boiled egg pudding taught me about AI

I've had a handful of light bulb moments with the technology that I was profoundly skeptical about only a year ago.

Gemini Call for Me might tell your mom you’re running late

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Here’s a video of Half-Life: Alyx running natively on a Vision Pro.

Reverse-engineered games: All the news on video game decomps, recomps, VR and web and 3D ports

MCP for agent-to-agent comms may be the riskiest protocol you've never heard of

Trust gaps in the new protocol spread malicious prompts from one agent to another.

Tech workers who resigned tell New York City Council that AI is moving too fast

The tech worker whose public resignation last month spurred widespread concern about the potential dangers of artificial intelligence told a New York City Council hearing that the AI industry was moving too fast.

Meta's Muse is already pulling one CEO's purchases away from Amazon

Leif Abraham, Public's co-CEO, told Business Insider he wants vintage wines and fancy Levi's jeans. Meta's Muse AI agent buys them for him.

Amazon hires Microsoft's former Copilot CTO

Amazon hires former Microsoft Copilot CTO Pedram Rezaei as a distinguished engineer, expanding its push into AI agents and workplace tools.

Google is going to let you directly edit Markdown files in Docs.

Markdown is a standard text format widely used by Large Language Models (LLMs) to preserve structured content, like tables, headers, and bulleted lists, without the bulk of heavy file formats. Previously, you needed to import and convert Markdown files into a Doc format, which often altered formatting, stripped comments, and fragmented files.

OpenAI will start watermarking ChatGPT's text in the EU

OpenAI will watermark ChatGPT and Codex text in the EU to comply with the AI Act. Editing can make the invisible marks harder to detect, it says.

Today’s Vergecast: We hear pitches on the best vibe-coded apps.

Welcome to Bear Lair!* (No, it’s nothing like that other show.) As we continue to explore the world of AI tools and vibe coding, we invited a few enterprising Vergecast fans to share their projects — and we invited The Verge’s Hayden Field to judge them with us. We’ll see what people are working on, and whether any of them will make us fabulously wealthy.

Texas city demands $2M for public records on Flock usage

Prices of public records tracking cops’ use of Flock go up as backlash swells.