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AI influencer awards season is upon us

• Robert Hart
• Mar 23, 2026

First came the AI beauty pageant. Then the AI music contests. Now, there is an award for AI Personality of the Year - perhaps the inevitable next step...

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Topical Dancer is propulsive, playful, and political

• Terrence O’Brien
• Mar 22, 2026

Last week's recommendation, Sotomayor's Wabi Sabi, has a very particular vibe that you don't find in a lot of records. One of the few things it called...

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Crimson Desert developer apologizes and promises to replace AI-generated art

• Jackson Chen
• Mar 22, 2026

The developer behind the open-world RPG Crimson Desert has issued an official apology after players discovered several instances of AI-generated art i...

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Crimson Desert dev apologizes for use of AI art

• Terrence O’Brien
• Mar 22, 2026

Reviews of Crimson Desert have been mixed, but the bigger issue for the game has been the discovery of what appeared to be AI-generated assets in the...

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Elon Musk announces Terafab project he claims will be the 'largest chip manufacturing facility ever'

• Jackson Chen
• Mar 22, 2026

Elon Musk has announced the Terafab project, a joint venture between Tesla, SpaceX and xAI, to build the "largest chip manufacturing facility ever." I...

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Musk says he’s building Terafab chip plant in Austin, Texas

• Terrence O’Brien
• Mar 22, 2026

Elon Musk announced plans to build a Terafab plant in Austin, Texas, that will be jointly run by Tesla and SpaceX. The goal is to eventually build chi...

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The secret story of the vocoder, the military tech that changed music forever

• David Pierce
• Mar 22, 2026

The vocoder was never supposed to be a revolution in music. It wasn't supposed to be anything in music, really. Its development began a century ago, w...

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The pint-sized Sonos Roam 2 is more over 20 percent this weekend

• Brandon Widder
• Mar 22, 2026

Sonos is no stranger to the occasional sale. The iconic audio company routinely runs sales around Black Friday, Amazon Prime Day, and the Super Bowl,...

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Online age checks came first — a VPN crackdown could be next

• Emma Roth
• Mar 22, 2026

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more news about online age verification and your...

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AI was everywhere at gaming’s big developer conference — except the games

• Jay Peters
• Mar 22, 2026

AI was everywhere at the GDC Festival of Gaming this year. Vendors at the event pitched generative AI tools for things like making AI-driven NPCs and...

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Halide co-founder is suing former partner for bringing source code to Apple

• Terrence O’Brien
• Mar 21, 2026

Lux Optics co-founder Sebastiaan de With made headlines when he joined Apple in late January. The company was behind Halide, one of the most popular p...

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Reddit is weighing identity verification methods to combat its bot problem

• Jackson Chen
• Mar 21, 2026

There could be one more step required before creating an account and posting on Reddit in the future. According to Reddit's CEO, Steve Huffman, the so...