OpenAI's voice model

🗣️OpenAI is testing a new model that recreates a person’s voice from a 15s recording. 

🔐 Disney+ is cracking down on password-sharing in June.

🐦 X warns that you might lose followers as it cracks down on bots.

🎧 Stability AI launched Stable Audio 2.0 to generate short audio clips with text.

🤦‍♀️ Blue check marks are back on Twitter for popular users.

🖥️ Microsoft and OpenAI are planning to build a massive AI supercomputer.

🗣️Apple has a new AI model called ReALM that could make Siri better.

Let’s be honest: AI-generated content is both incredible and sucks. It can clear brain fog in seconds but is also littering the internet.

In fact, earlier this month Google recognized just how bad your search experience is and announced some fine-tuning to their search algorithms to combat AI-generated content. Google will now downrank sites where AI is producing thousands of low-quality articles a day.

While I’m glad to see the changes, I will give it to Google that it's facing an uphill battle. Weeding out spam is like fighting a proliferating Agent Smith.

That’s why products like Arbor and Circle to Search catch my attention. They give you your own tools to save yourself from spam because even Neo needed some programs to learn Kung Fu.

Arbor’s mission is “to reindex the internet and save it from AI-generated SEO articles.” It aggregates and summarizes content across the web while duplicating and clustering content. For instance, it will give you a summary of a news event from all articles on the same topic and can highlight the differences between articles, too.

Circle to Search caught my eye because it took a familiar IRL action of circling content and powered it by AI. Though this tool is not as directly focused on spam content like Arbor is, it could definitely help you cut right to the chase — just circle an image of a steak to get results from recipes to Wikipedia articles on the topic, skipping Google entirely.

Try them out or stay stuck in a matrix of bots. The choice is yours.

🤖 New Spatial Persona avatars from Apple. Do these weird ghost-like apparitions make you feel less lonely? They’re supposed to. Apple Vision Pro users were reporting feeling disconnected, so Apple broke avatars out of their restricted windows and plopped them next to you so that working together or playing games can feel more natural. Yes, totally natural. (I’m obviously not sold but others are).

🧠 That’s a no-go from Lego. Lego had to ask a police department in California to stop cropping Lego heads onto suspect’s heads. The department is known for getting creative with its booking photos to protect the reputation of people who may be found innocent, but it turns out Lego couldn’t let it go.

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• Luci is a gamified app that helps you hit your financial goals.
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DEV TOOLS 

• Tailscan lets you build, debug, and deploy your Tailwind site right inside your browser.
• SAAS GPT generates a personalized dashboard starter React repo for you.

DESIGN TOOLS 

• Potion lets you craft beautiful emails using a UX like Notion's.
• Dodoboo is an iPad app that turns kids' doodles into AI-generated art.

FUN 

• Noctie lets you practice chess (at any level) with an A.I. owl.
• Rizz lets you go on training dates with A.I. to practice and build confidence.