Lila Shroff

Washington, D.C., United States

Assistant Editor at The Atlantic

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Google’s New AI Puts Breasts on Minors-and J. D. Vance

2 weeks ago | theatlantic.com | Lila Shroff |Matteo Wong

Sorry to tell you this, but Google’s new AI shopping tool appears eager to give J. D. Vance breasts. Allow us to explain. This week, at its annual software conference, Google released an AI tool called Try It On, which acts as a virtual dressing room: Upload images of yourself while shopping for clothes online, and Google will show you what you might look like in a selected garment.
Google’s New AI Puts Breasts on Minors—And J. D. Vance | Flipboard

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Lila Shroff |Matteo Wong

1 day agoSadly, those Android XR glasses are going to have to wait. Google I/O 2025 kicked off earlier today, and while the developer conference is set to continue through tomorrow, it feels like we’ve already gotten the lion’s share of the news. From Gemini to Android XR, today was all about sharing the …
Millennials Got Cheap Ubers. Gen Z Gets Free Grok.

1 month ago | theatlantic.com | Lila Shroff

Finals season looks different this year. Across college campuses, students are slogging their way through exams with all-nighters and lots of caffeine, just as they always have. But they’re also getting more help from AI than ever before. Through the end of May, OpenAI is offering students two months of free access to ChatGPT Plus, which normally costs $20 a month.
RFK Jr.’s Misguided Nostalgia

2 months ago | theatlantic.com | Lila Shroff

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present and surface delightful treasures. Sign up here. Last week, at an event in West Virginia, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fat-shamed the state’s governor, Patrick Morrisey. “The first time I saw him, I said you look like you ate Governor Morrisey,” Kennedy told a laughing crowd. Morrisey has apparently invited Kennedy to be his personal trainer.
It’s a Model of Government Efficiency, but DOGE Wants It Gone

Feb 12, 2025 | msn.com | Lila Shroff

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A New Era of Fraud

Feb 12, 2025 | theatlantic.com | Lila Shroff

President Donald Trump signed an executive order last night that seeks to give more power to Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, to cleave through the supposed “waste, bloat, and insularity” in the federal government. The team is being given broad permission by Trump to disrupt work at key agencies and cut jobs.
Elon Musk Wants What He Can’t Have: Wikipedia

Feb 5, 2025 | msn.com | Lila Shroff

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What Elon Musk’s Wikipedia Attacks Are Really About

Feb 5, 2025 | theatlantic.com | Lila Shroff

A recent target in Elon Musk’s long and eminently tweetable list of grievances: the existence of the world’s most famous encyclopedia. Musk’s latest attack—“Defund Wikipedia until balance is restored!” he posted on X last month—coincided with an update to his own Wikipedia page, one that described the Sieg heil–ish arm movement he’d made during an Inauguration Day speech. “Musk twice extended his right arm towards the crowd in an upward angle,” the entry read at one point.
Elon Musk Wants What He Can’t Have: Wikipedia

Feb 5, 2025 | flipboard.com | Lila Shroff

1 day agoLast week, news spread that a Chinese AI company, DeepSeek, had built a cutting-edge chatbot at a fraction of the cost of its American competitors. It sent the stock prices of American tech companies plummeting. But Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella put a happy spin on the whole episode, citing a …
The GoFundMe Fires

Jan 17, 2025 | theatlantic.com | Lila Shroff

Listen1.0x0:008:00Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (Noa) using AI narration. Listen to more stories on the Noa app. The wildfires in Los Angeles consumed the home of a cancer patient who had just received good news about her recovery—and the home of another whose cancer had just returned. They razed the house of a woman who had lost everything once before in a World War II bombing. They flattened fruit trees and flower beds planted with care.