🛑 OpenAI pauses MLK deepfakes on Sora
After a wave of crass, frankly upsetting MLK videos, OpenAI has hit the brakes on allowing his likeness in Sora. Estates and reps can now opt out of public figures being used.
OpenAI says guardrails are tightening-not exactly a full fix, but a start. Families asked; OpenAI listened… eventually.
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🖼️ Facebook’s new AI pokes around your camera roll
Meta rolled out an opt-in button that scans unpublished photos, uploads them to Meta’s cloud, and suggests edits or collages. Handy-also a little nosey.
Meta says it won’t train AI on those pics unless you edit or share the suggested creations-curious caveat, right.
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🎭 Senate Republicans post Schumer deepfake - X leaves it up
A deepfaked Chuck Schumer video was posted on the Senate GOP account. X’s policy bans harmful manipulated media, yet the clip stayed up without a warning label.
TechCrunch asked X for comment. The whole thing shows how platform rules and real enforcement still live on different planets… or so it seems.
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🐦🔥 Nvidia shows first U.S.-made Blackwell wafer with TSMC
Nvidia unveiled a Blackwell chip wafer made at TSMC’s Phoenix facility-a symbolic onshoring flex as AI compute demand keeps exploding.
The company pitched it as buttressing the U.S. AI supply chain. Big rhetoric, bigger wafers.
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🚐 Stellantis taps Pony.ai for European Level 4 robotaxis
The duo will co-develop and test self-driving vans, starting with Peugeot e-Traveller pilots out of Luxembourg-eyes-off driving, light commercial focus.
Rollout expands to more cities in 2026 if regulators and reality cooperate-small if, massive ambition.
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⚡ DOE’s fusion roadmap leans hard on AI - light on funding
America’s new fusion plan calls AI a transformative tool for digital twins, materials, even a Stellar-AI supercomputing hub with Nvidia and IBM.
The catch is glaring: bold milestones, vague money. Ambition sprinting, budget strolling.
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