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Meta is testing a stand-alone Vibes app, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Thursday. Launched last September, Vibes lets you create and share short-form AI-generated videos and access a dedicated feed that displays AI videos from others. Think TikTok or Instagram Reels, but every video you come across is AI generated. Until now, the feed has lived in the Meta AI app. By making Vibes available outside of the Meta AI app, the company is positioning it as a more direct competitor to Sora, OpenAI’s AI-generated video and social app that launched shortly after Vibes. “Following the strong early traction…
Once I signed up, I had to fill out several online forms. These include information that might personally identify me, like my Social Security number, phone numbers, email addresses, credit/debit cards, and so on. Filling out the information took about 20 minutes. It’s not effortless, but NordProtect’s interface is clean and intuitive. It puts the information you want to see on top, often alongside brief but informative details, with the option to dive deeper. Notifications are rare, too, so you’re not peppered with distracting alerts.The exception to this was the first time I logged in. I saw dozens of alerts…
Every year, advertisers spend millions for 30 seconds of Super Bowl glory. The best ones become cultural moments that outlive the game itself. Ahead of Super Bowl 2026, ADWEEK revisits the 26 commercials of the past 26 years that proved worthy of the hype.2000: Budweiser “Wassup?” by DDB ChicagoBuilt on a ridiculously simple, endlessly repeated catchphrase, Budweiser’s commercial was goofy and impossible to forget. What started as a joke between friends quickly turned into a cultural call-and-response embraced by people far beyond its core young, male audience. The concept originated with filmmaker Charles Stone III, adapted from his short film…
In May, AI sales automation startup Clay said it was allowing most of its employees to sell some of their shares at a $1.5 billion valuation. Coming just months after its Series B, Clay’s offer of liquidity was a rarity in a market where tender offers, as these types of secondary transactions are known, were still uncommon for relatively young companies. Since then, several other newer, fast-growing startups have allowed their staff to convert some of their stock into cash. Linear, a six-year-old AI-powered Atlassian rival, completed a tender offer at the same valuation as the company’s $1.25 billion Series C.…
Waymo, the Alphabet subsidiary that develops self-driving vehicle tech, has picked up speed. The company now operates robotaxis in six cities and has announced plans to launch in a dozen others this year. It just raised $16 billion in a new round of funding and says it has served over 20 million rides since the company launched its service in 2020, 14 million of them in 2025 alone.But Waymo’s mostly smooth operations have hit a rough patch in Washington, DC, where the company first began testing in 2024. Despite frequent District sightings of the now-familiar white, electric Jaguars, and despite…
This article was created in partnership with LivewireIn the old high school trope, the jocks and the nerds never mingled. Times have certainly changed.The National Football League has teamed up with Livewire, a global gaming marketing company, to produce NFL Race to the End Zone powered by Verizon, a 21-episode docuseries that unites NFL players and celebrity gamers through playful challenges and authentic connection.The series debuted on the NFL’s official YouTube channel in September 2025 and culminates during the week of Super Bowl LX with NFL Race to the End Zone LIVE powered by Verizon that began February 4, 2026,…
On Thursday, Anthropic released the latest version of Opus — its most advanced model and a particularly important model for Claude Code. Opus 4.5 was only released last November, and with 4.6, the company has sought to broaden its model’s capabilities and appeal, allowing for a greater variety of uses and customers. Perhaps the most notable addition to the newest version of Opus is the inclusion of what the company calls “agent teams” — teams of agents that can split larger tasks into segmented jobs. “Instead of one agent working through tasks sequentially, you can split the work across multiple…
Other Sex Toys to ConsiderHere are a few other toys that aren’t as great as the picks above but are still worth a try.Lelo Tor 3 Courtesy of LeloLelo Tor 3 for $169: If you love cock rings but would love them even more if they were app-enabled, then meet the Lelo Tor 3. While at first the Tor 3 looks very snug, this ring is extremely flexible, making it a perfect fit for all penises or strap-ons, if that’s how you prefer to use this device, as it’s designed to stimulate the clitoris when paired with a partner who…
OpenAI has launched a new product to help enterprises navigate the world of AI agents, focusing on agent management as critical infrastructure for enterprise AI adoption. On Thursday, AI giant OpenAI announced the launch of OpenAI Frontier, an end-to-end platform designed for enterprises to build and manage AI agents. It’s an open platform, which means users can manage agents built outside of OpenAI too. Frontier users can program AI agents to connect to external data and applications, which allows them to execute tasks far outside of the OpenAI platform. Users can also limit and manage what these agents have access…
On Friday, when SpaceX filed plans with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for a million-satellite data center network, you might have thought Elon Musk was having a bit of fun with us. But a week later, it is clear that he is dead serious. The most obvious step, of course, is the formal merger between SpaceX and xAI that went forward on Monday, officially drawing together Musk’s space and AI ventures in a way that makes a lot more sense if there’s some kind of joint infrastructure project planned. But even beyond the merger, we’re starting to see the idea…
An insurrectionist robot unleashed by a mad inventor in Fritz Lang’s Metropolis. HAL 9000 sabotaging a manned mission to Jupiter in 2001: A Space Odyssey. Skynet, the self-aware global defense network that seeks to exterminate humanity throughout the Terminator franchise.Hollywood has never wanted for audacious depictions of artificial intelligence or the ways in which it could alter the fate of our species. But the rapid integration of AI into the studio system and our now unavoidable interactions with it have severely compromised the genre, not to mention film as a medium.On the one hand, it’s perfectly understandable that screenwriters and…
The AI investing boom (or perhaps bubble) is something Silicon Valley has seen many times before: a gold rush of VC money thrown at the Big New Thing. But one aspect of it is completely unique to these times: startups rocketing from $0 to as much as $100 million in annual recurring revenue, sometimes in a matter of months. Word on the street is that many a VC won’t even look at a startup that’s not on the ARR superhighway, aiming for $100 million in ARR before their Series A funding round. But Andreessen Horowitz general partner Jennifer Li, who…
After being lit on November 26 in Olympia, Greece, the Olympic flame is now officially on its way to Olympic cauldrons in Milan and Cortina.But who are the people carrying the torches? Why do we make such a big deal out of torchbearers anyway? Also, how did the dudes from Heated Rivalry end up carrying the flame? Well, that’s a little complicated.Traditionally, the organizers for an Olympic host city choose each Games’ torchbearers. Sometimes they are selected for their athletic achievements, sometimes for their celebrity. (Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams from the gay hockey show likely fall into the latter…
To say we live in a tech-centric society is an understatement. Software, specifically machine learning and AI, coupled with advanced manufacturing, has delivered technology to street corners, schools, offices, factories, and even farm fields. This tech, much of it created in Silicon Valley, sits on your wrist, is carried in your pocket, is integrated in the movies you watch, and maybe in the music you listen to. And it is certainly the means by which that Amazon package was ordered, sorted, and delivered to your doorstep. It has turned their founders, executives, and middle managers into king-like figures, whose wealth…
Eight years after Brenna Huckaby’s first Paralympic Games, the pressure is on. She’s a highly decorated para snowboarder, with four medals across two Paralympic Games and 10 World Championships. But she doesn’t let the pressure get to her. “Win or lose, I’m still the same Brenna,” she tells WIRED. “I’m loved. I have an incredible family. [Snowboarding] is important, but it’s not everything to me.”That’s why Huckaby makes a point to keep the atmosphere light. If Huckaby has a good day in training, she wears the same socks for qualification and racing. If she had a good race for those,…
Chris Hemsworth can think of many ways AI can go off the rails within his home.In Amazon’s 60-second Super Bowl ad, “Alexaaaa+,” the actor hypothesizes all of the ways that AI—more specifically Amazon’s Alexa+ AI—is destined to destroy him. The spot, which will air during the third quarter of the game, opens with Hemsworth and his wife, actor Elsa Pataky, standing in their kitchen as Pataky waits for a car service. The first time we see Hemsworth, he’s carrying a snake from the backyard into the house (a real thing that Hemsworth once did). But it’s not the snake that scares Hemsworth—it’s…