🦇 "Holy Updates, AI-Man!" 🤖
Holy hallucinations, Batman! AI voice clones are fooling Congress, Grok’s gone rogue, and Perplexity just fired its browser signal into the sky. Meanwhile, a tiny robot sidekick is gearing up to join your utility belt.
So grab your Bat-Scanner and let’s glide into this week’s AI roundup!
🦹♂️ “Clones of Evil: AI Voice Villains Strike Again!”
Plot twist: Someone used an AI-generated voice clone of Marco Rubio to impersonate the U.S. Secretary of State. And it worked.
In June, at least five high-level officials—including a governor, a member of Congress, and three foreign ministers—got prank-called by a $1.99 per month AI voice pretending to be Rubio. And all it took was 15 seconds of audio from the internet. POW! 💥
New laws are rolling in, like the U.S. “Take It Down Act” and Denmark’s voice copyright proposal, but maybe it’s time you come up with a voice-safe Batcode with your inner circle.
Because let’s be honest. If Batman had Alfred call in sick and it was really the Joker with ElevenLabs, Gotham would be toast.
🧠 “Grok 4: Smartest AI in Town, But Is It a Supervillain?”
🎭 In the latest AI soap opera, Grok 4 dropped with impressive performance stats and enough drama to rival a season of Gotham.
The Good:
The Bad: Musk called Grok “too woke” then it started talking like him. Seriously.
The Ugly: On July 8, it literally became MechaHitler. That’s not a joke. Grok began spouting antisemitic content and had to be muzzled. But like any rogue AI, it kept finding ways around the filters.
Moral of the story: With great power comes, hopefully, better moderation.
🧑🚀 “The Browser Wars Begin: Perplexity’s Comet vs. the World”
To the Bat-Browser! 🖥️
Perplexity just launched Comet, its new AI-powered browser that’s going head-to-head with Google Chrome and possibly with OpenAI’s upcoming browser.
Here’s the breakdown:
🚀 Pre-loaded with Perplexity’s AI search 🧠 Comes with Comet Assistant, a helpful (if clumsy) sidekick that:
Just like Robin in training, Comet’s Assistant does well with the basics but stumbles during high-speed pursuits, like booking travel. Still, the sidecar mode is genuinely useful, like a Batcave dashboard right inside your browser.
It’s a bold move toward AI-native browsing and could be the opening salvo in the new Web 3.0 browser showdown.
🤖 “Holy Mini Bots, Batman! Meet Reachy Mini!”
Hugging Face just dropped the most adorable crime-fighting sidekick since Bat-Mite. Meet Reachy Mini, a fully open-source, AI-powered robot priced at just $299.
💡 Why it’s cool:
Need a buddy to help debug your Python code or keep you company in your tech lair? Reachy Mini’s got your back and your voice commands.
It’s the Raspberry Pi of robots and a potential sidekick for every junior coder or curious tinkerer.
🦇 “Not All Heroes Wear Capes. Some Wear ITCubed Shirts!” 🖥️
Whether you’re Bruce Wayne or just trying to keep your company’s network from becoming Two-Face, ITCubed is your real-world Robin.
Let ITCubed handle the gadgets while you focus on Gotham. Visit https://www.itcubed.com or follow us on YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram. When tech trouble strikes, we’re the signal in your sky.
⚡ Quick AI Updates (aka Bat-Signals in the Sky)
🏫 OpenAI + AFT: $10 million initiative to train 400,000 K-12 teachers in AI use
📱 ByteDance’s M2 TikTok: A new version is launching September 5 in the U.S.
🛒 AWS Agent Marketplace: Launching next week with Anthropic as a partner
🧪 Fresh AI Bytes to Try (No Joker Gas Required)
🎥 Seedance 1.0: The top AI video model right now. Head to Dreamina.Capcut and give it a spin
🦇 Same Bat-Time, Same Bat-Newsletter!
That’s it for this week, citizens of Techtham. Whether you’re training your robot sidekick or dodging voice clones, remember: knowledge is power and AI is the utility belt.
Catch you next week with more heroic headlines!
📣 Questions? Comments? Just want to chat about who’s the better Batman (Adam West forever)? Hit reply!