There are these ads all over the New York subway system advertising this new thing called friend and always listening AI companion. And let's just say some New Yorkers aren't too happy about the idea. Says no.So I've actually been testing friend for about a month and I got to say I very much agree with the graffiti. Well, I named this guy Blurbo and uh let's just say he's been very rude. Basically, friend works by listening to the world around it and responding to your questions or conversations via a messa ...

Group 1 - The UAE President met with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to discuss strengthening cooperation in artificial intelligence research and applications, aligning with the UAE's vision to create an integrated AI ecosystem and support its knowledge-based economy development [2] - Tencent released and open-sourced its new generation multimodal image model "Hunyuan Image 3.0," which has 80 billion parameters and is currently the largest and best-performing open-source image model, comparable to leading closed-source models in the industry [2] - Renowned robotics expert Rodney Brooks warned investors against funding humanoid robot startups, labeling such investments as a waste of money and criticizing companies like Tesla for their training methods, which he described as "pure fantasy thinking" [2] Group 2 - AI startup Friend invested over $1 million in advertising across New York City's subway system to promote its wearable AI device, which has faced criticism for privacy concerns and vandalism on its advertisements, highlighting public skepticism towards surveillance capitalism [2]