Laiken Neumann

1 month ago | dailydot.com | Laiken Neumann

Like most technology advancements that came before it, artificial intelligence feels like the Wild West. But instead of Clint Eastwood’s Man With No Name, this villain (or antihero, depending on your outlook) emerges as RoboCop. The lack of regulation amid AI’s exponential growth is probably exciting to most attendees of 2025’s South By Southwest Interactive conference in Austin, Texas.

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Laiken Neumann

12 hours agoAmazon’s Echo will send all voice recordings to the cloud, starting March 28Amazon Echo users will no longer have the option to process their Alexa requests locally, which means all of their voice recordings will be sent to the company’s cloud.

1 month ago | dailydot.com | Laiken Neumann

Gen Z’s favorite Paul Atreides took the stage at South By Southwest 2025 for a brief reprieve from the panels of evil bald guys touting AI mission statements. It’s not the white boy of the month turned Kardashian-dating Oscar nom Timothée Chalamet, but the critically panned David Lynch Dune star: Kyle Maclachlan. The 66-year-old actor gained clout among young people after recreating an Instagram post from Lorde in early 2024 and later embracing Charli XCX’s Brat Summer on social media.

1 month ago | dailydot.com | Laiken Neumann

Whether you frequent your local mall or primarily buy online, quickly advancing AI is changing how you shop. The technology that has swept the world via customer service chatbots and generative AI products like ChatGPT is now influencing how and where you spend. One Google search will lead to various AI-suggested products, which the search engine began using in 2023. But that’s only the beginning of personalized AI shopping experiences.

1 month ago | dailydot.com | Laiken Neumann

“I got it. Let’s try it and rate it one through 10.”Nearly anyone who’s opened the TikTok app in the last few years would recognize those words. You can probably even hear Keith Lee’s cadence in your head. The renowned foodie began posting on TikTok in 2020 but didn’t reach great heights until 2022, when he began reviewing local restaurants. He’s since been praised for bringing many of his 17 million followers to struggling mom-and-pop restaurants.