Author: Geek Planet

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Personalities generated by AI, like Tilly Norwood, don’t need rest or have unique, personal opinions. That’s part of their appeal to talent agencies and advertisers. As brands and platforms quietly embrace AI-generated content, some creators are starting to worry that cost and control will beat out their authenticity. Last week, Meta launched its AI-generated content feed called Vibes. Around the same time, OpenAI launched a social app called Sora that allows users to generate videos of themselves. Both resemble TikTok-style feeds. That seems to indicate that these are less side projects for the tech behemoths and likely an indicator of…

If you’ve nothing better to do in the run-up to Christmas, then how about enjoying a mesmerizing hour-long video of a humanoid robot sorting packages? The clip was posted by the founder and CEO of Figure AI, the California-based company behind the Figure humanoid robot. Brett Adcock was responding to a post on X by AI commentator Mehmet Aykul, in which he questioned the ability of Figure’s robot to handle “boring” tasks like sorting “10,000 messy packages without a single error.” Adcock shot back with a video showing Figure sorting packages for a full 60 minutes, adding: “Boring enough for…

The lively Wednesday evening discussion at COSM 2025 between neurosurgeon Michael Egnor and historian of science Michael Shermer was followed by some further comments, including Shermer’s reflections on the possibility of life after death: Here’s Part 1. Michael Shermer: I have a lot of friends on the other side, so I’m thinking if I’m wrong, maybe I’ll get in. Host Jay Richards (grinning): We’ll see. Michael Shermer: You never know. And then they’ll say, well, Christopher Hitchens and Carl Sagan and all those atheist guys, okay? But anyway. So I’m fascinated by all this. I would, like anybody else, for…

The Trump administration is doubling down on its Bitcoin strategy, with top officials emphasizing their commitment to growing the U.S. government’s BTC holdings. Speaking at the Digital Assets Summit today in New York, Bo Hines, Executive Director on Digital Assets for President Trump, made it clear that the United States is determined to accumulate Bitcoin at an unprecedented scale. “I think it’s high time that our President started accumulating assets for the American people, which is what President Trump is doing rather than taking it away,” Hines stated. He went on to reveal that at President Trump’s first-ever digital assets…

The latest chapter in the Department of Justice’s antitrust case against Google’s ad tech empire wrapped on Friday (Oct. 3). Over the past two weeks, both sides — the DOJ and Google — laid out their competing visions for how to dismantle a business that, for years, set the rules for the game while playing all positions.Unfortunately, Digiday wasn’t in the courtroom (we’ve got day jobs) but we’ve been trading notes with people who were. Below is a breakdown of what really happened, what matters and what to keep an eye on as the case barrels toward resolution. The TL;DR…

Marketers like to say they’re used to chaos. Lately, that’s been put to the test. Between broken measurement systems, widening AI-created talent gaps and the ongoing existential crisis of what it means to be an “authentic” brand (sorry), they’re earning those paychecks just staying afloat.  That tension was front and center at Advertising Week New York, where a record 20,000 attendees flooded Midtown’s Penn Station District. The usual carousel of panels offered a familiar mix of cautious optimism and recycled talking points, while nearby coffee shops and happy hours played host to the real conversations – the kind that don’t…

If you follow the smartphone world closely, you know that we have hit a bit of a wall recently. For the last few years, Qualcomm has been relentlessly pushing clock speeds higher and higher, but physics is starting to push back. It doesn’t matter how fast a chip can go if it gets so hot within three minutes of gaming that it has to throttle itself down to a crawl. The current Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 is a beast, sure, but it is already dancing right on the edge of what is thermally possible inside a device that sits…

I just finished a group video call with my siblings in an utterly dark cabin surrounded by pine trees. And for the first time, I didn’t hear a complaint that goes something like “please turn up the brightness, I can’t see your darn face.”  It was the same Mac as usual, my go-to video call app, and a familiar cellular internet situation. The only difference this time around was the new display-driven light fill feature that has arrived with the macOS 26.2 update, which is now rolling out widely to Mac users.  Apple calls it Edge Light. Think of it…

It’s been a big few days for AI video. Meta launched its Vibes feed. OpenAI released the Sora app. Together, they preview a future of social media built on machine-made, perfectly personalized content. The takes came fast. Tech pundits weighed in, creators voiced concerns and cultural critics cried dystopia.  Marketers, for once, didn’t jump in. But they didn’t ignore it either, They’re curious, cautious and conflicted. Vibes and Sora clearly mark a shift in attention. But with every leap forward comes more complexity: fragmented platforms, blurred lines of control, and an open question — what even counts as “content” now?  Here’s…