“It just seems like the temperature is rising on Silicon Valley.”
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Apple has updated its App Store guidelines to more explicitly prohibit so-called nudify apps, which use AI to create intimate images of people without their consent. The change follows heavy criticism over the use of xAI's Grok to generate nonconsensual sexualized deepfakes, some involving minors. Apple did not remove X or Grok from the store, though it reportedly told senators it had threatened to do so. Pressure also mounted at Apple's June WWDC event, where protesters demanded removal of such technology, and in July a San Francisco city attorney ordered Apple to take down 13 nudify apps.
Replit CEO and co-founder Amjad Masad confirmed that the company is no longer working with Anthropic. He made the remarks during TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. The source material provided does not detail the reasons behind the split or the terms of the former collaboration. Further specifics about the decision have not been disclosed in the available text.
Meta has withdrawn $25 million from its political spending plans for the midterm elections. The company had earlier laid out a $65 million budget for an effort to elect state politicians who are friendly to the artificial intelligence industry. The article provides few additional details about the reasons for the pullback. The change marks a notable reduction in the scale of Meta's political push in the AI policy arena.
Two excerpts from Wu-Tang Clan's long-restricted album Once Upon A Time in Shaolin can now be heard, thanks to an episode of the podcast Pablo Torre Finds Out. The record has been largely inaccessible since it was bought as a single copy at auction in 2015 by pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli. After Shkreli forfeited the album to the US government, it was sold in 2021 to the crypto art collective PleasrDAO. The album is barred from commercial release until 2103, and the podcast episode explores its history in detail.
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