Carolyn Marvin was arrested in Philadelphia and charged with disorderly conduct after standing in the path of an Uber delivery robot and refusing to move. She told a local TV station she protests the robots whenever she sees them because they are taking jobs from human delivery workers.
Web infrastructure company TinyFish is making its search offering free. The article breaks down the two bills an AI agent faces when it reads the web: the per-request fee charged by search or fetch APIs, and the token cost of feeding page content into a model, plus reasoning and generated answers.
Using a GitHub repository and an AI assistant, a Frandroid writer removed the ads from a Philips TV running Google TV and gave it an Apple TV-style home screen in about ten minutes. The tweak works well, the author says, provided you understand what you are changing.
Google's SynthID website offers a simple way to check whether an image was generated or altered with AI. Engadget explains how to use it and notes that the tool comes with a few caveats.
Oppo is preparing the Heart Ball, a small wearable AI accessory that clips onto clothing and listens throughout the day to help users keep track of their tasks. The company promises it will not keep users' recordings.
Always-listening AI wearables from Apple, Amazon, Meta and several startups are stretching privacy rules in creative ways. CNBC reports growing concern that they enable covert recordings, which could expose users to legal risk.