🔒 WhatsApp bans general purpose chatbots
Meta quietly updated WhatsApp’s Business API terms to block distribution of general-purpose AI assistants. Customer-service bots are fine; platform-wide AI agents aren’t.
It likely hits assistants from OpenAI, Perplexity, and others. Meta says the API is for business messaging, not chatbots-at-scale-and, yes, Meta AI still gets to stay.
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📉 Wikipedia says AI answers are siphoning traffic
Human pageviews fell as search engines surface AI summaries and younger users chase info on social video. Some of the summer spike turned out to be sneaky bots, too.
The worry: fewer readers means fewer editors and donors. Google disputes the claim, which-honestly-makes the picture even murkier.
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🧪 Nvidia shows first U.S.-made Blackwell wafer
TSMC’s Arizona fab produced a Blackwell wafer for Nvidia-a symbolic onshoring moment for AI compute. It’s early, but the supply-chain story is shifting, a bit.
Cue the victory-lap talk about domestic AI manufacturing… and the quiet caveat that scaling this is the real boss level.
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🛑 Parents get a kill switch for Meta’s AI bots
Meta will let parents block teen chats with AI characters across Facebook, Instagram, and the Meta AI app. Topic insights and PG-13-style limits are coming, too.
It’s a safety play after criticism about inappropriate bot conversations with minors-necessary guardrails or overcorrection… or both.
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⛏️ Crypto miners pivot to AI, leave Bitcoin in the dust
Public miners are rebranding as AI compute landlords, chasing steadier revenue than block rewards. Markets like the story-for now.
It’s a weird ouroboros: the crypto crowd betting on AI’s heat to stay warm. Returns look shiny until the power bill knocks.
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🎨 New tool claims to reveal copyrighted DNA in AI images
Vermillio says it can estimate how much an AI output leans on specific IP-think Doctor Who, Bond, Elsa… the cultural soup.
If the method holds up, licensing fights could get receipts-or at least spicier pie charts. Artists will be watching closely, anxiously.
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