An underwear brand owned by Victoria’s Secret has an AI feature that will impose images of swastikas, logos for companies like Coca-Cola and copyrighted characters like Disney’s Snow White and Aladdin on bralette and panty sets. By Cyrus Farivar // @[email protected] Emily Baker-White forbes.com/sites/cyrusfar…

“While Son long teased the possibility of a series of Vision Funds launched every two to three years, the prospect of a third Vision Fund — let alone a fourth — no longer comes up.” bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

How is it these days as a foreign journalist to operate in China you ask ? Well, let me give you a little update now that I am back for about 7 months. Thread 1/

Of course.

A Russian Influence Campaign Is Exploiting College Campus Protests

A Kremlin-aligned network called Doppelganger has used faked versions of real news sites to push both pro-Palestine and pro-Israel disinformation. wired.com/story/russian-…

Companies are using AI to generate employee handbooks and policies its backfiring: from missing anti-harassment clauses to bungled PTO guidelines and botched bereavement leave terms. forbes.com/sites/rashishr…

I kept digging into that AI company behind Sports Illustrated's fake writers. Turns out it's created tons more fake writers across the web, sometimes for surprisingly huge media clients. And then things get even wilder...

For Futurism // futurism.com/advon-ai-conte…

For Nazim Salur, it’s the end of a nearly decade-long dream to build a global delivery powerhouse out of Turkey bloomberg.com/news/articles/… A err bananas ancedote from the quick commerce wars...

A viral & racist campaign is going around that is saying a 'mob' is 'hunting' or trying to 'lynch' jews in Athens. There is no basis or substance for these accusation. There was simply a pro-Palestine rally in Athens yesterday. Will crunch numbers on it soon.

Some of these estimated traffic falls in the Press Gazette list are astonishing. Lots of news sites built their whole digital strategies around churning out low-value SEO stories and that model seems to be collapsing.

(Hat-tip Rasmus Kleis Nielsen)

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Al Gore fund boosts Octopus Energy stake as valuation soars to £7.2bn news.sky.com/story/al-gore-…

The beef has now moved to Garry Tan's mentions
forbes.com/sites/saraheme…

I'm getting tons of email for Jason Momoa because ContactOut has my work address listed as contact info for him. And seemingly no way to get this undone.

$100m of fake Cisco parts wound up in 'platforms supporting the F-15, F-18, and F-22 fighter jets, AH-64 Apache attack helicopter' pcmag.com/news/tech-ceo-…