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“This is the first truly AI-powered hotel […] We create a virtual copy of the guest. There is an onboarding before coming to the hotel. We capture information and use AI to scrape the internet and then we track behavior while on property.” Each guest would have a virtual assistant, which would track and retain that guest’s preferences, which could then be used for subsequent hotel stays. […] In May 2025, the hotel opens”
Scientists uncover how the brain washes itself during sleep
I’ve acquired a new superpower
Emerging evidence suggests that certain individuals are unable to address others by name, presumably owing to anxiety experienced in social situations. This fear of using personal names has been termed alexinomia and occurs in all forms of relationships and communication. The symptoms of alexinomia show large overlap with the symptoms typically associated with social anxiety, raising the question of whether social anxiety could be the main driving factor of this type of name avoidance. Here, we investigated the relationship between alexinomia and social anxiety
a copyright lawsuit filed against Meta allege that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave the green light to the team behind the company’s Llama AI models to use a dataset of pirated e-books and articles for training.
KrebsOnSecurity recently told the saga of a cryptocurrency investor named Tony who was robbed of more than $4.7 million in an elaborate voice phishing attack. In Tony’s ordeal, the crooks appear to have initially contacted him via Google Assistant, an AI-based service that can engage in two-way conversations. The phishers also abused legitimate Google services to send Tony an email from google.com, and to send a Google account recovery prompt to all of his signed-in devices. Today’s story pivots off of Tony’s heist and new details shared by a scammer to explain how these voice phishing groups are abusing a legitimate Apple telephone support line to generate “account confirmation” message prompts from Apple to their customers.
Did Picasso steal the Mona Lisa? Attracted by the cash reward, Honore-Joseph Géry Pieret - who had once been the secretary of poet and writer Guillaume Apollinaire, an associate of Picasso - confessed to a newspaper that, in 1907, he had stolen small Iberian sculptures from the Louvre and sold them to Picasso. Picasso actually used the face of one of the statues in his masterpiece Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. By 1911, Pieret was broke and decided to return to the Louvre to steal more small objects to sell.
