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UpScrolled, a platform for sharing photos, videos, and text that claims political impartiality, says user growth has surged since TikTok's US takeover (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/867958/tiktok-upscrolled-app-us-takeover

TikTokers are heading to UpScrolled following US takeover
Just days after Oracle and a group of investors took over TikTok’s US operations, many users have announced they are switching to UpScrolled, an alternative social platform that promises not to shadowban or censor content.

Sam Altman is hiring someone to worry about the dangers of AI
The Head of Preparedness will be responsible for issues around mental health, cybersecurity, and runaway AI.
🤔 https://www.theverge.com/news/850537/sam-altman-openai-head-of-preparedness

Sam Altman is hiring someone to worry about the dangers of AI
Sam Altman is hiring a Head of Preparedness at OpenAI to worry about the dangers of AI.

Syntax is not Semantics
Language is not the same as intelligence.
The entire AI bubble is built on ignoring that.
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/827820/large-language-models-ai-intellige…

Large language mistake
Neuroscience indicates language is distinct from thought, raising questions about whether AI large language models are a viable path to artificial general intelligence.

Google adds Gemini 3 to AI Overviews as the default model globally and now lets users ask follow-up questions "seamlessly" via AI Mode (Robert Hart/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/868497/google-ai-search-follow-up-questions-gemini-3

Google Search now lets you ask AI Overviews follow-up questions
Gemini 3 will be the default model for AI Overviews and Google says follow-ups let you jump seamlessly into conversations with AI Mode.

Microsoft unveils the Maia 200, its 2nd-generation AI accelerator built on TSMC's 3nm process, deploying today in its Azure US Central data center region (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/867670/microsoft-maia-200-ai-chip-announcement

Microsoft’s latest AI chip goes head-to-head with Amazon and Google
Microsoft is launching a successor to its custom in-house AI chip. The Maia 200 goes up against Amazon and Google’s latest AI chips and is rolling out now.

Adobe unveils Project Moonlight, an AI agent on its Firefly platform designed to act as a creative director for social media campaigns via text prompts (The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/807457/adobe-ai-agent-project-moonlight

Adobe’s AI social media admin is here with ‘Project Moonlight’
Adobe announced Project Moonlight, an AI agent that uses other Adobe AI tools to create social media posts that match your tone and style.

Anthropic rolls out a new extension to MCP to let users interact with apps directly inside the Claude chatbot, with support for Asana, Figma, Slack, and others (Robert Hart/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/867673/claude-mcp-app-interactive-slack-figm…

MCP unites Claude chat with apps like Slack, Figma, and Canva
Anthropic says users can interact directly with apps like Box, Clay, Amplitude, Asana, and monday.com without leaving Claude chat thanks to an MCP extension.

At its Adobe Max event, Adobe unveils AI tools for Photoshop, Premiere Pro, and Lightroom, and says Firefly Image 5 can generate images in native 4MP resolution (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/807811/adobe-photoshop-lightroom-…

Photoshop and Premiere Pro’s new AI tools can instantly edit more of your work
Adobe has given us a first look at new and upcoming generative AI tools launching for the company’s Photoshop, Premiere Pro, and Lightroom Creative Cloud apps.

xAI's Grokipedia says Grok fact-checked its entries and some "content is adapted from Wikipedia"; some pages, like the PS5's, are almost identical to Wikipedia (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/807686/elon-musk-grokip…

Elon Musk’s Grokipedia contains copied Wikipedia pages
xAI’s Grokipedia, which Elon Musk has promised will be a “massive improvement” over Wikipedia, is now live, though some of the pages adapt content from Wikipedia.

After AWS's major outage, Signal's Meredith Whittaker says there "isn't really another choice" but to use AWS and "the entire stack" is "owned by 3-4 players" (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/807147/signal…

‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS
Signal head Meredith Whittaker has responded to concerns about the encrypted messaging app’s use of Amazon Web Services, saying “there isn’t really another choice.”