AJ Dellinger

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β€˜Masturbation Consultants’ Gave an AI Startup a Hand - Gizmodo

Technology August 16, 2026

You might remember a few months ago, an AI startup posted a job listing looking for 10 β€œmasturbation consultants,” offering to pay $2,000 a month to test out what it called a β€œDaily Guided Mastu...

China’s War on β€˜Lying Flat’ Comes for Companion Chatbots - Gizmodo

Business July 17, 2026

The film Her would be significantly shorter in China, because the moment Theodore Twombly started to have feelings for the Scarlett Johansson-voiced AI named Samantha, the cord would get pulled out, οΏ½...

New Browser Extension Helps You Dodge Amazon’s Sea of Knock-Off Products - Gizmodo

Technology July 10, 2026

You’ve surely noticed that when browsing Amazon, most of the brand names are not ones you recognize. In fact, they’re mostly not names at all, just a series of seemingly random letters mashed toge...

The Folks Behind Beloved Hacker Tool Flipper Zero Have a New Device for Focus - Gizmodo

Technology July 1, 2026

The creators of Flipper Zero, the pen-testing multitool that has earned a reputation as a favorite gadget for questionable tinkering, are finally releasing their focus-focused device next month. The οΏ½...

Google Chrome Is Downloading a 4GB AI Model Onto Your Device Without Consent, Researcher Warns - Gizmodo

Technology May 8, 2026

Even if you aren’t using Google Gemini, it might be using your device. Security researcher Alexander Hanff, also known as β€œThat Privacy Guy,” recently reported that Google’s widely used Chrome...

Everything You Missed From Elon Musk’s Testimony in the OpenAI Trial - Gizmodo

Business May 3, 2026

Elon Musk β€œspeaks” publicly a lot (the guy is *always* tweeting), but rarely does he do it when he’s not in control of the message. On X, he can manipulate the algorithm to boost himself and fri...

Anthropic Launches New Model That Spots Zero Days, Makes Wall Street Traders Lose Their Minds - Gizmodo

Business February 7, 2026

Anthropic, the makers of the popular and code-competent chatbot Claude, released a new model Thursday called Claude Opus 4.6. The company is doubling down on coding capabilities, claiming that the neοΏ½...

Sam Altman Expects to Get What He Wants - Gizmodo

Business February 5, 2026

On Monday, two of AI’s biggest players had a little public tiff that started with a well-sourced report from Reuters that OpenAI is dissatisfied with Nvidia’s chips and ended in OpenAI CEO Sam Alt...

Everyone Really Needs to Pump the Brakes on That Viral Moltbot AI Agent - Gizmodo

Technology January 30, 2026

A new AI chatbot/agent is looking to dethrone the corporate overlords of Google, Microsoft, and the Too Big To Fail startups like OpenAI and Anthropicbut being an early adopter comes with some real rοΏ½...

Everyone Really Needs to Pump the Brakes on That Viral Moltbot AI Agent

Crypto January 29, 2026

A new AI chatbot/agent is looking to dethrone the corporate overlords of Google, Microsoft, and the Too Big To Fail startups like OpenAI and Anthropicbut being an early adopter comes with some real rοΏ½...