The Hallucination HQ
AI news that's actually fun to read — 2026-05-24
|
Today's Hallucination HQGoogle's New AI Can Turn Anything Into Anything. Yes, Including Your Child's Stuffed Deer
Google's Gemini can now process and generate across text, images, video, and audio in a single model — what the industry calls "omni" capability. To test it, The Verge's writer recreated a Google ad by making a plush deer look like it was on holiday. It worked. Which is either a triumphant demonstration of multimodal AI, or a reminder that the bar for "wild experiment" has dropped considerably since we split the atom.
Source: The Verge
Your WiFi Router Has Been Quietly Learning What You Look Like
German researchers have shown that standard WiFi signals — the same ones buffering your Netflix — can identify individuals with near-perfect accuracy by analysing how radio waves bounce off human bodies. No camera required. No special hardware. Just the router you already own, doing surveillance as a side hustle. The technique works even through walls, which is the kind of detail that sounds like a thriller plot point right up until it isn't.
Source: Science Daily
Ferrari and IBM Are Engineering Fans From Scratch, Which Seems Faster Than Winning Races
Scuderia Ferrari HP has partnered with IBM to deploy AI tools that personalise the F1 fan experience — surfacing stats, stories, and insights tailored to individual viewers in real time. The idea is to deepen engagement with casual fans who find the sport impenetrable, which, given F1's approximately nine hundred rules, is not an unreasonable problem to have. Whether AI-manufactured passion counts as genuine fandom is a philosophical question Ferrari has elected not to entertain.
Source: TechCrunch
Washington Asked If It's Ready for AI. The Podcast Ran for 40 Minutes Without a Clear Answer
The New Yorker's Political Scene podcast poses a bracing question: is Washington equipped to regulate AI? The episode explores how public anxiety about job displacement and algorithmic power could fuel the next wave of populist politics. The honest answer, threading through the conversation, is that Congress is attempting to referee a sport it learned about last Tuesday. Democracy moves in four-year cycles. AI does not.
Source: The New Yorker
Trump Delays AI Oversight Order After Tech Industry Explains Why Oversight Is Bad, Actually
Following lobbying from senior tech executives, the Trump administration has postponed an executive order that would have introduced federal AI oversight. The delay opens the door to industry self-regulation — a model with a distinguished history of working brilliantly in sectors like banking and social media. Officials suggest innovation must not be stifled. The AI systems being left unsupervised were unavailable for comment, presumably because no one has asked them to be accountable for anything yet.
Source: Crypto Briefing
|
|
As always, the machines are learning. Whether anyone's watching is, apparently, optional.
|
|
Was this forwarded to you?
Subscribe here
Written with AI assistance, edited by humans. •
Privacy •
Unsubscribe
|
|
