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McDonalds and Coca-Cola Made AI Slop Holiday Commercials, and I'm Not Lovin' ItI was sitting in a movie theater with my mom, freshly buttered popcorn in hand, ready to see Dave Franco star in Now You See Me 3, when our previews were rudely interrupted with Coca-Cola's newest holiday ad. While my mom was enjoying the cute polar bears, I was scowling. When she asked me what was wrong, I told her...

The U.N. Security Council approves a U.S. plan for a Gaza stabilization force A Palestinian man carries bags of firewood after collecting it from the rubbish in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on Saturday. Abdel Kareem Hana/AP...

Creative Commons announces tentative support for AI ‘pay-to-crawl’ systems After announcing earlier this year a framework for an open AI ecosystem, the nonprofit Creative Commons has come out in favor of “pay-to-crawl” technology — a system to automate compensation of website content when accessed by machines, like AI webcrawlers. Creative Commons (CC) is best known for spearheading the...

Greetings from Yimianpo, China, where artisans carve Russian nesting dolls Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world. Matryoshka dolls are a Russian folk art tradition dating back over a century. These hollow wooden figurines, shaped like...

Elon Musk’s xAI offers Grok to federal government for 42 cents  Elon Musk’s xAI has reached an agreement with the U.S. government’s purchasing arm to sell its AI chatbot Grok to the federal government for under a dollar, pitting it against OpenAI and Anthropic.  Under the agreement between xAI and the General Services Administration (GSA), federal agencies will be charged 42 cents to use...