A 1960s publicity portrait of Hammer Films actress Veronica Carlson has been altered by a generative AI image editor, which superimposed a plastic comb onto her hand, and the flawed result is being so…
A Japanese repair shop in Saitama Prefecture is charging 45,000 yen ($282) to upgrade an RTX 2080 Ti's VRAM from 11GB to 22GB, using 200 Samsung 2GB GDDR6 modules it received on August 15. The mod, wh…
Engineering samples of Intel's unreleased Optane Persistent Memory 300 Series 'Crow Pass' modules have surfaced on eBay, with multiple active listings for the NMC2XAD512GQS part. The modules were part…
Phoebe Gates, co-founder of AI shopping startup Phia, is facing allegations that the company engaged in 'cookie stuffing,' a fraudulent affiliate tactic that claims credit for sales it did not drive, …
A software developer is building a home AI data center from e-waste, using four AMD V620 GPUs (32GB VRAM each) purchased cheaply from eBay resellers, an Intel Core i9 10900X on an X299 motherboard, an…
Reddit Inc. reported Q2 revenue of $804.905 million, up 61% year-over-year, with daily active uniques reaching 130.3 million, advertising revenue up 64%, and net income of $252.848 million, yet its sh…
Teleperformance, the world's largest call centre company, is using real-time AI software from Sanas to neutralize Indian accents for Western customers, aiming to increase human empathy and reduce misc…
South Korean authorities are escalating an international crackdown on counterfeit K-beauty cosmetics, deploying AI-powered monitoring tools to track and remove illicit listings on platforms like Amazo…
Morgan Stanley identified 24 AI-adopter stocks rated 'Overweight' that have seen relative net margins expand by 50 basis points in three months, with net margins now exceeding the broader market by ne…
Generative AI has reduced audiovisual production costs by 50% to 90%, enabling businesses to create professional video ads, product photography, and digital avatars at a fraction of traditional costs,…
OpenAI's first hardware device, the $230 Codex Micro keypad made with Work Louder, sold out in about 12 hours after its July 15 launch and is now being resold on eBay for up to $1,850, according to Fo…
OpenAI's first hardware device, the Codex Micro keyboard, debuted on July 15 at $230 and sold out within 12 hours, with resale prices on eBay reaching as high as $1,850. The keyboard, developed with b…
An AI listing generator automates product descriptions for multiple e-commerce platforms, reducing a three-hour writing session to a five-minute review. The tool uses a transformation pipeline with in…
Meta launched Seller, a standalone iOS app for Facebook Marketplace power sellers that uses Meta AI to generate titles, descriptions, and prices from a single photo, and includes a unified inbox and p…
AI startup hoodies from OpenAI and Anthropic are selling for up to $250 on eBay, reflecting a desire for cultural capital and proximity to Silicon Valley's innovation engine as IPOs remain elusive. Th…
A secondary market for AI startup swag is booming on eBay, with used OpenAI and Anthropic hoodies, t-shirts, and pens selling for hundreds of dollars. An OpenAI Codex box set recently fetched $475, a …
A Hacker News user asks the community for advice on buying second-hand compute hardware, anticipating that an AI bubble burst will flood the market with used GPUs from data centers. The user seeks alt…
Former banker Satyajit Das warns that current stock market overvaluation, driven by AI and space ventures like SpaceX, mirrors the dot.com bubble, which caused $5-6 trillion in losses and an 80% Nasda…
Livestream shopping app Whatnot acquired Shaped, a machine learning company specializing in real-time recommendation and search systems, to strengthen its discovery and personalization capabilities. T…
OpenAI has hired Cloudflare engineering manager Kate Reznykova as a member of technical staff to strengthen its web infrastructure team, which focuses on application-layer tasks such as web routing an…