At the 2025 C2 Montréal conference, Shira Lazar hosted Willonius Hatcher, known online as King Willonius, for a live episode of The AI Download. Hatcher discussed the unexpected virality of “BBL Drizzy,” an
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The app’s parent company, ByteDance, is reportedly preparing to launch a new version of TikTok in the United States on Sept. 5, just days ahead of a government deadline that could force
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Affirm and FICO are now factoring BNPL payments into credit scores, changing how borrowers are rated.
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Meta is expanding its AI hardware ambitions with a bold new collaboration, a high-performance smart glasses line with Oakley. Unveiled on Friday, June 20, the Oakley Meta HSTN marks the launch of
A historic data breach has exposed 16 billion passwords and login credentials from platforms including Google, Apple, Facebook, GitHub, Telegram, and even government portals, marking what experts are calling the largest credential
The Trump Organization has entered the mobile market with the announcement of Trump Mobile, a new wireless service and a $499 Android-based smartphone dubbed the T1. Launching later this year, the initiative
When Coca-Cola debuted its first fully AI-generated holiday commercial in late 2024, the project marked a turning point in branded storytelling. Created in just four weeks by Secret Level, the spot was
Several high-profile web services experienced major disruptions on Thursday as issues related to Google Cloud affected the internet. Cloudflare, Spotify, Discord, and YouTube were among the affected platforms, with outage reports spiking on
OpenAI’s ChatGPT experienced a significant global outage today, leaving students, professionals, and meme creators scrambling as the platform went offline for over 12 hours. As of Tuesday morning, June 10, error reports
Apple is set to open its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) on Monday, June 9, in Cupertino, Calif., where the company is expected to unveil a series of software updates and introduce
Hip-hop producer Timbaland has entered the AI arena with the debut of TaaTaa, an AI-generated female rapper developed using his own voice technology. The project is part of his work with music
The New York Times Company and Amazon have entered a multi-year licensing agreement that will allow Amazon to integrate editorial content from The New York Times, NYT Cooking, and The Athletic into
Tesla has started testing its driverless robotaxi service on public streets in Austin, Texas, just weeks ahead of a planned June 12 rollout, according to new reports and comments from CEO Elon
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AI agents aren’t coming, they’re already here. They’re booking appointments, capturing missed leads, and even boosting revenue. On a recent episode of The AI Download, Shira Lazar sat down with Dr. David Yang,
Anthropic’s latest AI updates might be coming for your job (or at least the boring parts of it). On Thursday, the startup unveiled Claude 4 Opus and Claude Sonnet 4, the newest
“Luke, I am your artificially intelligent assistant now.” That’s the controversy behind the latest “Fortnite“ update, which added an AI-powered Darth Vader character voiced using synthetic audio mimicking the late James Earl
