3+ week, 1+ day ago   (885+ words) This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Guillaume Meyer, a Paris-based tech founder and creator of a viral open-source project “Watermarks Remover,” which he made in response to Anthropic’s AI watermark announcement. His words have been edited for…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (486+ words) Thankfully, a team of designers are working to stick it to the scrapers by throwing a wrench into their works — that wrench being a fiendishly difficult-to-digest font. As spotted by Ars Technica, the font, called “ShieldFont,” looks like regular text…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (728+ words) This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Brian Distelburger, the 47-year-old cofounder of Windmill, an AI performance review startup. He lives in New York. It’s been edited for length and clarity. I try pretty much everything that’s new…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (237+ words) A twice-signed Jensen Huang workstation GPU sold for nearly 10 times its initial estimate. The “RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition” sold for $57,450 as part of RR Auction’s “Steve Jobs & the Computer Revolution: The Apple 50th Anniversary Auction Part Two” lot. Bidding concluded…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (491+ words) This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Ben Drury, cofounder and CEO of Yoto. It has been edited for length and clarity. My company wouldn’t exist without my kids. The idea started nearly 13 years ago, when I was…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (696+ words) Consumers are getting fed up with AI slop found on online marketplaces, and companies are beginning to take note. But CGTrader may be a case study for how having more AI-generated products for sale does not guarantee the technology’s popularity,…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (190+ words) Within four hours of Anthropic confirming that Claude models would globally embed invisible, machine-readable watermarks into any AI-generated content, developer Guillaume Meyer had published his override. Meyer and others started investigating how watermarking works after Anthropic announced last week that…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (741+ words) Hello and welcome to Eye on AI. In this edition: OpenAI details two week training pause, more security controls following Hugging Face hack. Anthropic on course for $65 billion in annual revenue. OpenAI debuts ChatGPT for teens. Can AI models figure…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (1202+ words) Retail jobs often involve a lot of cleaning up after other people. Dusty shelves, spilled liquids, smudged display cases, and, more recently, AI agent errors. In Walmart’s bid to fuel its growth ambitions, the retailer is betting big on AI…...