av Mikael Winterkvist | dec 8, 2025 | Bluesky, Mastodon, Notiser, Threads
Donald Trump is angry that Rep. Henry Cuellar is running again as a Democrat rather than switch parties after the president pardoned the Texas congressman and his wife in a federal bribery and conspiracy case.
Trump blasted Cuellar for “Such a lack of LOYALTY,” suggesting the Republican president might have expected the clemency to bolster the GOP’s narrow House majority heading into the 2026 midterm elections.
Cuellar, in a television interview Sunday after Trump’s social media post, said he was a conservative Democrat willing to work with the administration “to see where we can find common ground.” The congressman said he had prayed for the president and the presidency at church that morning “because if the president succeeds, the country succeeds.”
Källa: Trump slams pardoned Democratic congressman as ’disloyal’ for not switching parties
av Mikael Winterkvist | dec 7, 2025 | Bluesky, Mastodon, Notiser, Threads, Twitter
Meta has cut several deals with news publishers to help provide real-time data for its AI chatbot services, as reported by Axios. The commercial agreements will allow its Meta AI chatbots to better answer user queries about news and current events.
These are multiyear deals where publishers will be compensated for the use of their content, but we don’t have any monetary specifics. The contracts do stipulate that Meta’s chatbots will link out to articles when answering news queries, potentially offering a slight traffic boost to publishers.
Källa: Meta cuts deals with several news publishers for AI use
av Mikael Winterkvist | dec 7, 2025 | Bluesky, Mastodon, Notiser, Threads
Fallout Season 2 premieres on December 17, and in a big change from Season 1, episodes will be released weekly instead of all at once. Prime Video has now published the full release schedule for Fallout Season 2, so you can plan and prepare for all eight episodes.
Episodes will be released weekly on Wednesdays at midnight PT, and the sophomore season will run through February 4, 2026. Fallout Season 1 also had eight episodes.
Källa: Fallout Season 2 Episode Release Date Schedule
av Mikael Winterkvist | dec 7, 2025 | Bluesky, Mastodon, Notiser
Artificial intelligence is showing up everywhere in Google’s services these days, whether or not people want them and sometimes in places where they really don’t make a lick of sense. The latest trial from Google appears to be giving articles the AI treatment in Google Discover. The Verge noticed that some articles were being displayed in Google Discover with AI-generated headlines different from the ones in the original posts. And to the surprise of absolutely no one, some of these headlines are misleading or flat-out wrong.
Källa: Google Discover is testing AI-generated headlines and they aren’t good
av Mikael Winterkvist | dec 7, 2025 | Bluesky, Notiser, Threads, Twitter
Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google Deepmind, expects the next year to bring major progress in multimodal models, interactive video worlds, and more reliable AI agents. Speaking at the Axios AI+ Summit, Hassabis noted that Gemini’s multimodal capabilities are already powering new applications. He used a scene from ”Fight Club” to illustrate the point: instead of just describing the action, the AI interpreted a character removing a ring as a philosophical symbol of renouncing everyday life. Google’s latest image model uses similar capabilities to precisely understand visual content, allowing it to generate complex outputs like infographics, something that wasn’t previously possible.
Källa: Deepmind CEO Demis Hassabis predicts three major AI trends for 2026
av Mikael Winterkvist | dec 6, 2025 | Bluesky, Mastodon, Notiser, Threads, Twitter
After burning tens of billions and stubbornly insisting the metaverse would eventually justify the cost, Mark Zuckerberg appears to be backing away from his most ambitious project. Once its defining obsession, it appears that Meta’s boss has finally decided to cut his losses: the metaverse could be on the way out.
Reality Labs encompasses several areas of Meta’s VR/AR business, but Bloomberg writes that two of them will be hit hardest: Horizon Worlds and virtual reality. Zuckerberg is planning to slash Reality Labs’ budget by 30%, with the cuts coming as early as January 2026.
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