Sunday, August 9, 2026

Baby monitor offering “A.I.-scheduled lullabies” (AI roundup)

i wrote about smart baby monitors and how an increasing number of products in the nursery are trying to dispense advice to millennial and Gen Z parents: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/b...

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— Sapna Maheshwari (@sapna.bsky.social) August 3, 2026 at 12:03 PM
(Owlet, Nanit’s biggest rival, offers a $300 pulse oximetry tracker that attaches to a baby’s foot through a sock. Huckleberry, a free app for tracking feedings and diaper changes, markets a $120 upgrade membership with “optimized nap predictions” and access to an artificial intelligence chatbot that, after logging your baby’s habits, can deliver personalized guidance and pep talks. CuboAi’s $359 Smart Baby Monitor 3 touts “A.I.-scheduled lullabies” and sends alerts when a baby’s face is covered.)





Here's a new kind of virus that scientists have generated with AI. And here's my story about what it means for us to have gotten to this remarkable moment: nyti.ms/4bBhoWB (Gift link) 🧪

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— Carl Zimmer (@carlzimmer.com) August 6, 2026 at 11:12 AM








(Officials had seen an increase in “poison pen” messages, or anonymous accusations that an applicant misrepresented themselves")







Regular Reminder: The Guardian is in a commercial relationship with OpenAI.

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— Gav Thorpe (@gavthorpe.bsky.social) August 5, 2026 at 12:28 PM
("Guardian Media Group announces strategic partnership with OpenAI")







Everyone is wondering who caused this! The platform literally has a "Write with AI" button...

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— Alex Hanna (@alexhanna.bsky.social) August 2, 2026 at 5:02 PM
(Presumably it's really a "Help train our AI" button)







GEMA wins legal dispute against Suno to stop them from imitating "nine well-known songs by German artists without permission" from Helene Fischer, Alphaville, the Boney M. hits “Daddy Cool” from 1976 and “Rasputin” from 1978 to Lou Bega's 1999 version of “Mambo No. 5”.

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— René Walter (@rawx.bsky.social) August 4, 2026 at 9:27 PM








So I woke up this morning to find out that Ozzy Osbourne’s son made a video falsely accusing me of using AI to write a Rolling Stone article about the Tate brothers.

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— Kat Tenbarge (@kattenbarge.bsky.social) August 1, 2026 at 10:55 AM








When LLMs treat “some people say” as a trusted source, this is one of the funnier things that can happen

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— Janelle Shane (@janelleshane.com) August 6, 2026 at 8:53 PM








"are there any bad @stephencollins.bsky.social cartoons?" No, of course not, I've been laughing at this one for three minutes

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— John C (@badsocialism.bsky.social) August 7, 2026 at 3:52 AM
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