
Joi AI hired 10 people to masturbate using AI companions as part of a monthlong “wellness” study. The company claims the practice could help “solve male loneliness.”
An AI company hired 10 people to masturbate using AI companions over a 28-day period as part of a "wellness" study. The company claims this practice could help address male loneliness. The study represents a new application of AI companion technology focused on sexual wellness, though details beyond the basic parameters are not provided in available reporting.

The Robot Report Podcast · How Protolabs turns CAD files into parts in under 24 hours Marc Kermisch, Chief Technology and AI Officer at Protolabs. Marc Kermisch is the chief technology and AI officer at Protolabs. He leads the Maple Plain, Minn.-based company‘s global technology organization, overseeing its software product development, digital manufacturing platform evolution, and enterprise-wide artificial intelligence and research & development strategies. Kermisch also focuses on

Google will now allow you to remove visible watermarks from the images, videos, and music made with AI tools. With the update, you can toggle off a new "Media watermark" setting in Gemini and Google's AI video generator, Flow. When toggled off, Google will remove the "sparkle" watermark that appears in the bottom-right corner of content generated with the company's Nano Banana and Omni models. Though visible watermarks are now optional, AI-generated content will have invisible

Turning off this setting won't affect invisible benchmarks used to identify an AI generated file.
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