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Welcome to the Week in Review. I missed you! This week we explore all the gadgets and announcements from this year’s CES Meta’s decision to roll back its fact-checking app, TikTok’s response to workers affected by the California wildfires, and more! Let’s do it.
CES 2025 has come and gone this week. The main ideas of big players such as technology were presented at the event nvidia, Samsung, toyota, and more. In addition, of course, there were the expected gadgets, gizmos and interesting AI claims on the show floor. Our team of journalists were on the ground and you can follow everything that caught our eye at this year’s show here.
Meta is revising its content moderation policies which it created in response to criticism that it helped spread political and health misinformation. The company is getting rid of it third-party fact-checking software in favor of an X-like Community Notes model that critics see as an attempt to serve the incoming Trump administration. The response to the searches was quick Regarding the deletion of meta accounts flying
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the company is losing money $200 per month ChatGPT Pro plan because people use it more than the company expects. Launched late last year, ChatGPT Pro gives users access to an improved version of the program OpenAI’s o1 “judgmental” AI model and lifts rate caps on several of the company’s other tools, such as the Sora video generator.
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Forest fires and the horrors of capitalism: TikTok told Los Angeles workers affected by the wildfires to use personal/sick hours if they can’t work from home. The company’s LA office remains closed as wildfires ravage the greater Los Angeles area. Read more
Hello, Project Figures: At CES 2025, Nvidia unveiled Project Digits, a “personal AI supercomputer” designed for AI researchers, data scientists and students, providing access to the company’s Grace Blackwell hardware platform in a compact form factor. Read more
More copyright issues for Meta: A new filing claims Mark Zuckerberg gave the team behind Meta’s Llama AI models the green light to use a collection of pirated e-books and articles for training, including works by authors such as Sarah Silverman and Ta-Nehisi Coates. Read more
A robot cat that cools your tea: Yukai Engineering’s latest darling is the Nékojita FuFu, a tiny robotic cat that can be mounted on a cup or bowl and blows air to cool your coffee or soup. Read more
X clarifies his stance on parody accounts: X said it will start tagging parody accounts on the platform. Since X has returned traditional verification tokens in favor of paid verification, users have been mistaking posts from parody accounts for genuine expressions. Read more
Artificial intelligence that simulates the real world: Google is creating a new team to work on artificial intelligence models that can simulate the physical world. The team will be led by Tim Brooks, one of the leaders at OpenAI’s Sora. He left for Google DeepMind in October. Read more
Cannabis Brand Under Cyber Attack: Popular Los Angeles-based cannabis brand Stiiizy has confirmed that hackers accessed sensitive customer information, including government-issued documents and medical cannabis cards, during a November cyberattack. Read more
This electric spoon can make your food taste better: Why add more salt to your food when a $127 spoon can do it for you? Kirin Holdings has demonstrated an electronic spoon that uses a weak electric current to concentrate sodium ion molecules in your food. Read more
That’s a lot of money: A Delaware judge has approved a settlement that would have Tesla executives pay up to $919 million in restitution to the automaker, formally resolving allegations that they overpaid themselves. Read more
The weirdest gadgets at CES 2025: It wouldn’t be CES without some really bold products, claims and highlights. We’ve rounded up the most eyebrow-raising examples from the show floor. Read more
