A lot of musicians will be infuriated by this ‘world’s first generative AI guitar’, but I think its automatic tabulation and learning features sound genuinely smart — but only if the AI’s ethical

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(Image credit: TemPolor) TemPolor Melo-D guitar promises to create entire songs from singing or playing a melody, using AI Auto-generated backing tracks and guitar tabulation, too $349 early bird on Kickstarter Ever wished you could get AI to help you play guitar and compose songs? Melo-D promises to do justContinue Reading

The Other Half of AI Safety

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Every week, somewhere between 1.2 and 3 million ChatGPT users, roughly the population of a small country, show signals of psychosis, mania, suicidal planning, or unhealthy emotional dependence on the model. The low end of that range is the suicide-planning indicator alone. The high end groups all three categories OpenAIContinue Reading

My graduation cap runs Rust

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May 12, 2026 I’ve never graduated before. I mean, from college. So all the cap and gown stuff is new to me. Fun fact #1: you rent your cap and gown in the US. You have to return them. And they’re expensive, too! I paid $94 just for the privilegeContinue Reading

Prime Video is adding a TikTok-like feed

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The people have spoken, and their message is clear: Rotating a phone into landscape is just too dang hard. Amazon is the latest company to adopt a TikTok-like vertical short-form video, in the form of Prime Video’s new Clips feature. The short-form video feed is a new addition to PrimeContinue Reading

Canadian officials claim OpenAI violated federal and provincial privacy laws

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Iryna Tolmachova/Shutterstock Philippe Dufresne, the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, has found OpenAI was “not compliant with” Canadian federal and provincial privacy laws in the training of its AI models. Following an investigation, Dufresne and his counterparts in Alberta, Quebec and British Columbia say OpenAI’s approach to things like data collectionContinue Reading