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…

Nintendo releases trailers for new ‘Zelda’ and ‘Pikmin’ games

February 8, 2023

Nintendo hosted a forty-five minute Nintendo Direct livestream on Wednesday, revealing upcoming games and updates for the Nintendo Switch. As many players expected, Nintendo shared a trailer for the highly anticipated “The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom,” the follow-up to the franchise’s beloved “Breath of the Wild.” The game will be released on […]

Nintendo releases trailers for new ‘Zelda’ and ‘Pikmin’ games by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch

AI is eating itself: Bing’s AI quotes COVID disinfo sourced from ChatGPT

February 8, 2023

One of the more interesting, but seemingly academic, concerns of the new era of AI sucking up everything on the web was that AIs will eventually start to absorb other AI-generated content and regurgitate it in a self-reinforcing loop. Not so academic after all, it appears, because Bing just did it! When asked, it produced […]

AI is eating itself: Bing’s AI quotes COVID disinfo sourced from ChatGPT by Devin Coldewey originally published on TechCrunch

Hands-on with the new Bing

February 8, 2023

Yesterday, Microsoft launched the new Bing on the web and in its Edge browser, powered by a combination of a next-gen OpenAI GPT model and Microsoft’s own Prometheus model. With this, Microsoft jumped ahead of Google in bringing this kind of search experience to the mainstream, though we’ll likely see the competition heat up in […]

Hands-on with the new Bing by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch

Twitter is telling users that they’re over the daily tweet limit

February 8, 2023

Twitter users have seen their fair share of erratic policy changes and weird bugs lately, but today they can’t even tweet through it. Many users reported that they were suddenly unable to tweet on Wednesday, starting around 2PM PT. Right now, the bug appears to be affecting all non-scheduled tweets. Tweets that were scheduled previously […]

Twitter is telling users that they’re over the daily tweet limit by Taylor Hatmaker originally published on TechCrunch

Affirm’s stock plunges as it misses earnings, cuts 500 jobs and shutters crypto unit

February 8, 2023

Citing economic turbulence, buy now, pay later giant Affirm announced today that it is reducing its staff by 19%, or about 500 employees, and shutting down its crypto unit. That leaves the company with about 2,000 employees. In a written statement, Founder and CEO Max Levchin said that he takes “full responsibility for this decision […]

Affirm’s stock plunges as it misses earnings, cuts 500 jobs and shutters crypto unit by Mary Ann Azevedo originally published on TechCrunch

Fable Foods land Series A for its mushroom-based meat alternatives

February 8, 2023

The promise of alternative meat products has been under scrutiny lately, with articles in Bloomberg and the Washington Post questioning if it’ll ever be truly embraced by consumers. Other news like the drop in Beyond Meat’s stock price and mass layoffs at Impossible Foods have cast further questions on the industry’s future. Amid all this […]

Fable Foods land Series A for its mushroom-based meat alternatives by Catherine Shu originally published on TechCrunch

Disney+ reports its first subscriber loss, drops 2.4 million subscribers

February 8, 2023

Disney’s first quarter with CEO Bob Iger back in command isn’t looking so good. Disney announced its Q1 2023 earnings today, reporting a total of 161.8 million Disney+ global subscribers, a decrease of 2.4 million subs from 164.2 million in the previous quarter. This is the streamer’s first-ever subscriber loss since launching in 2019. The drop […]

Disney+ reports its first subscriber loss, drops 2.4 million subscribers by Lauren Forristal originally published on TechCrunch