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OpenAI cancels MLK, Claude gets a job

Editorial Team
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🚫 OpenAI Bans MLK Deepfakes After His Family Says "Stop"

  • OpenAI just blocked Sora from generating videos of Martin Luther King Jr. after his estate complained about "disrespectful depictions." Turns out you can't just deepfake civil rights icons for the lulz.

  • The AI ethics committee finally did something. This sets the precedent that maybe we shouldn't let people puppet dead heroes for TikTok content. (source)

🛠️ Claude Gets "Skills" (It's Learning Excel, God Help Us)

  • Anthropic gave Claude custom "Skills" so it can follow your company's brand guide or pretend to understand your janky spreadsheets. These skills work across all Claude products, like a portable brain upgrade.

  • Claude just went from "generic chatbot" to that one coworker who actually knows how the printer works. AI agents are getting scarily competent. (source)

📈 Is AI a Bubble? Half of Investors Say Yes, Bezos Says "YOLO"

  • Over 50% of investors think AI stocks are in dot-com 2.0 territory. Meanwhile, tech CEOs are still burning billions like it's 1999.

  • Either we're witnessing the greatest technological revolution ever, or the most expensive hallucination in human history. Place your bets. (source)

🎤 "Hey Copilot" - Windows 11 Gets Voice-Activated AI

  • Microsoft's Copilot can now wake up when you talk to it, like Alexa but for booking dinner reservations from Excel.

  • AI is becoming the OS, not just an app. Soon you'll be arguing with your computer about why it won't compile your code. (source)

🏃 Another Apple Exec Defects to Zuck's "Superintelligence Lab"

  • Ke Yang just ditched Apple's AI search team for Meta. That's like the 5th one this month. Apple's Siri team is basically a LinkedIn job board now.

  • Apple can't keep its AI talent from jumping ship. Their "revolutionary Siri update" might just be teaching it to pronounce names correctly. (source)

🎵 Spotify Makes Peace Treaty with Record Labels Over AI Music

  • Spotify partnered with Universal and Sony to build "responsible AI" that actually pays artists. Revolutionary concept.

  • They're trying to prevent the future where every song is AI Drake featuring Robot Beatles. Artists might actually get paid (shocking). (source)

⚖️ Authors Sue Salesforce for Training AI on Their Books

  • Two authors filed a class-action lawsuit claiming Salesforce trained xGen on thousands of books without asking. The "move fast and steal things" strategy strikes again.

  • The "scrape now, apologize later" era might be ending. Companies might have to actually pay for training data (the horror). (source)

📊 AI Startups Are Paying Humans to Wear GoPros All Day

  • Companies are ditching web scraping and literally paying people to generate custom training data. One startup has artists wearing cameras 24/7.

  • Quality data is the new oil. We've gone from "scrape the internet" to "pay Dave to livestream his breakfast". (source)

🕵️ UK Spy Chief: "AI Might Go Rogue" (Not Joking)

  • MI5's boss Ken McCallum publicly warned about autonomous AI systems evading human control. When the spy chief mentions Skynet, maybe listen.

  • This isn't Reddit conspiracy theories anymore. Actual spies are concerned about AI going off-script. (source)

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Meta Adds Parental Controls for AI Chatbots

  • Parents can now block their teens from talking to certain AI characters on Instagram. Because that's a sentence we need in 2025.

  • We're literally childproofing AI. The future is your kid asking a chatbot for homework help and getting existential crisis instead. (source)

📌 Pinterest Adds "Hide AI Slop" Button

  • Pinterest is letting users filter out AI-generated content after complaints about low-quality robot art flooding feeds.

  • The internet is drowning in AI garbage. Platforms are adding "show me real humans" buttons like it's a CAPTCHA for content. (source)

📈 Chip Stocks Moon Because AI Still Needs GPUs

  • TSMC says AI chip demand is "robust." Translation: Nvidia is still printing money faster than the Fed.

  • The picks-and-shovels play is working. While everyone argues about AGI, chip makers are laughing to the bank. (source)

🏢 Data Center CEO: "We Need Trillions, This Isn't a Bubble"

  • ABB's CEO says data center investment will hit trillions. The bottleneck isn't money - it's finding enough humans to build them.

  • The AI infrastructure build-out is so massive that we're running out of construction workers before capital. (source)

💷 AI Investment Is Literally Strengthening National Currencies

  • The British pound and Swedish crown are getting stronger because Microsoft and Nvidia are dumping billions into local AI infrastructure.

  • AI spending is so huge it's affecting forex markets. Your country's currency might depend on how many data centers it can host. (source)

🌍 Global AI Survey: Most People Feel "Meh"

  • Pew Research found 42% of people are equally excited and concerned about AI. Only 16% are purely excited. The normies aren't buying the hype.

  • While we're debating AGI timelines, most humans just want their printer to work. The AI revolution needs better PR. (source)

✈️ Kayak's AI Plans Your Vacation (Probably to a Data Center)

  • Kayak launched conversational AI for travel planning. Ask it "where should I go for New Year's?" and it'll suggest somewhere with good WiFi.

  • AI is making complex tasks simple. Soon you'll outsource your entire vacation planning to a bot and wonder why you ended up in Cleveland. (source)

🤖 Reddit Search Now Speaks Five Languages (All Sarcastic)

  • Reddit's AI search expanded to French, German, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese. Now more people can find that one obscure thread from 2011.

  • Reddit's decade of arguments is becoming globally searchable. The world's collective bad takes are now multilingual. (source)

Until tomorrow (unless the AIs achieve consciousness first),
Team Galaxy.ai

P.S. If Martin Luther King Jr.'s estate can stop AI deepfakes, maybe your ex can too. The future is weird.