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Inside the marketplace powering bespoke AI deepfakes of real women

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Friday, January 30, 2026 - 8:32 PM
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Civitai—an online marketplace for buying and selling AI-generated content, backed by the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz—is letting users buy custom instruction files for generating celebrity deepfakes. Some of these files were specifically

How the sometimes-weird world of lifespan extension is gaining influence

Date
Friday, January 30, 2026 - 2:00 PM
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For the last couple of years, I’ve been following the progress of a group of individuals who believe death is humanity’s “core problem.” Put simply, they say death is wrong—for everyone. They’ve even said it’s morally wrong. They established what

The AI Hype Index: Grok makes porn, and Claude Code nails your job

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Friday, January 30, 2026 - 12:56 AM
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Everyone is panicking because AI is very bad; everyone is panicking because AI is very good. It’s just that you never know which one you’re going to get. Grok is a pornography machine. Claude Code can do anything from building websites to reading

DHS is using Google and Adobe AI to make videos

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Thursday, January 29, 2026 - 10:57 PM
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The US Department of Homeland Security is using AI video generators from Google and Adobe to make and edit content shared with the public, a new document reveals. It comes as immigration agencies have flooded social media with content to support

How the grid can ride out winter storms

Date
Thursday, January 29, 2026 - 3:00 PM
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The eastern half of the US saw a monster snowstorm over the weekend. The good news is the grid has largely been able to keep up with the freezing temperatures and increased demand. But there were some signs of strain, particularly for fossil-fuel

Roundtables: Why AI Companies Are Betting on Next-Gen Nuclear

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Wednesday, January 28, 2026 - 8:23 PM
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AI is driving unprecedented investment for massive data centers and an energy supply that can support its huge computational appetite. One potential source of electricity for these facilities is next-generation nuclear power plants, which could be

What AI “remembers” about you is privacy’s next frontier

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Wednesday, January 28, 2026 - 6:57 PM
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The ability to remember you and your preferences is rapidly becoming a big selling point for AI chatbots and agents.  Earlier this month, Google announced Personal Intelligence, a new way for people to interact with the company’s Gemini chatbot that