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What’s trending on socials and headlines today
Blast From The Past: AI-generated video clips that give users a nostalgic time capsule into the 80s and the 90s are racking up millions of views on X.
Memory Moats: ChatGPT has dropped a new “Project-Memory” feature that allows the chatbot to use conversations within the project for context, but restricts it from dabbling into saved memories from outside the project.
Browser Breach: A new report has X users concerned about a major security flaw in Perplexity’s Comet browser that makes accounts and sensitive information vulnerable to security risks — screenshots included.
Nvidia is reportedly pitching a modified version of its advanced Blackwell AI chip for US approval days after halting production of its Chinese-approved H20 architecture.
Elon Musk’s xAI has dropped an older version of its AI model Grok — specifically, the model weights used in Grok 2.5 — on the open-source platform Hugging Face. Plans are in place to open-source Grok 3 in six months.
Harvard startup Halo is planning to launch a $249 pair of smart glasses that perform what its founders have dubbed “vibe-thinking”. The specs will record everything you do, use AI to whip out facts, and recall all your previous conversations.