June 19, 2025

It’s pretty easy to get DeepSeek to talk dirty

AI companions like Replika are designed to engage in intimate exchanges, but people use general-purpose chatbots for sex talk too, despite their stricter content moderation policies. Now new research shows that not all chatbots are equally willing to talk dirty: DeepSeek is the easiest to convince. But other AI chatbots can be enticed too, if…

Google Photos’ AI-powered ‘Magic Eraser’ is now a Google One subscription perk

February 23, 2023

One of the Google Pixel’s best photo-editing features, “Magic Eraser,” is now making its way to other Android and iOS devices. But it won’t be free. Today, Google announced that the popular tool, which uses AI to remove unwanted content from images, will become available to Google One subscribers in addition to existing Pixel owners. […]

Google Photos’ AI-powered ‘Magic Eraser’ is now a Google One subscription perk by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch

Two days in the Bay

February 23, 2023

It was genuinely a bit surreal seeing deep green hills in the South Bay last week. Growing up in Fremont, I know the change from brown to green is about as close as we get to having seasons, but it’s been so long since I’ve seen them, I’d genuinely forgotten they can exist. It’s an […]

Two days in the Bay by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch

EU asks who should fund future networks, as telcos eye Australia-style Big Tech bargaining code

February 23, 2023

The European Union has kicked off a consultation on how to fund the “massive” upgrades to Internet connectivity which regional lawmakers believe are needed for the bloc to make the most of transformative technologies like AI or immersive virtual worlds while delivering on the big bang, cross-industry digitization it also wants to characterize the next […]

EU asks who should fund future networks, as telcos eye Australia-style Big Tech bargaining code by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch