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The iconic Lofi Girl is now in Fortnite — or, at least, her room is. A new Fortnite map lets you run around the bedroom as if you were in Honey I Shrunk the Kids, collecting music notes and sneaking a look at what’s under the bed. It’s unsurprisingly pretty chill, except for some of the platforming sequences.

A Luxembourg court found that Jeff Dieschburg’s “Turandot” painting — a near like-for-like copy of an image taken by photographer Jingna Zhang — violated copyright by referencing Zhang’s work without consent or attribution.

While this case isn’t directly connected to her anti-AI efforts, Zhang said the ruling is a win for individual copyright protection “in time of AI where our rights seem to be quickly eroding.”

Julie McNamara, head of podcast studios, announced her departure on Thursday, according to Bloomberg. The company has seen a steady stream of exits as it pulls back on its podcast business.

McNamara’s departure follows deep layoffs at Spotify as well as cuts to its programming as it tries to make the podcasting department profitable.

Managing an OnlyFans page is a lot of work: you have to make and share content, promote your page, and maintain relationships with subscribers. Business Insider spoke with OnlyFans creators who are using AI tools to do some of that work for them.

COO Brad Lightcap is speaking at Bloomberg’s Tech conference and was just asked when the next model is arriving. His answer hints that ChatGPT will evolve to act like an agent on your behalf or, at the very least, take on more of a persona.

“Will there be such a thing as a prompt engineer in 2026?” he says. “You don’t prompt engineer your friend.”

Product reviews attributed to AI-generated authors have appeared on sites for the The Los Angeles Times, Us Weekly, and many other outlets, according to a new report by Futurism.

The content was produced by AdVon Commerce, a digital marketing firm that was behind the Sports Illustrated and Gannett and USA Today AI debacles, as I reported previously.

The digital illustration app has a new AI Disturbance feature that applies a “noise” layer to images to prevent generative AI models from accurately interpreting their art style.

It’s similar to Glaze, one of several tools that artists are utilizing to protect their work from generative AI mimicry, but without the hassle of jumping to separate software — something that may inspire rivaling art apps.

The singer reshared fake AI images of herself at the Met Gala — an event she didn’t attend — along with a text showing her own mom fell for the synthetic image that was circulating. The official Instagram account commented, “a TRUE goddess.” Unclear if the person running it realized it was AI.

Watch out for the AI Met Gala disinformation!

Maxon announced in October that it will bring its beloved desktop 3D sculpting software to the platform this year, but our first look at it comes courtesy of Apple’s “Let Loose” iPad event.

There’s still no word on the release date or pricing. The UI looks really clean though, and it seemingly supports Zbrush’s Sculptris Pro mode, judging by the icon seen up top.

Some YouTube Premium subscribers can now jump to the most-watched part of a video, only in the YouTube app, by double-tapping the right side of the screen (which normally skips ahead 10 seconds), then tapping a “Jump ahead” button that appears, according to 9to5Google.

To see if you have the feature and enable it, go to Settings > Try experimental new features.

Disney Plus has never hosted “Dad Baby” — likely because it depicts Bluey’s dad Bandit pretending to give birth to his daughter Bingo — but the entire episode is now available to watch online via the official Bluey YouTube channel.

Despite Dad Baby’s cult status, it's actually one of several episodes of the Australian children’s TV show hit with censorship.

You can now preview thousands of audiobooks from the Google Play Books channel on YouTube — in addition to the previews already available in the Play Store. Google has also expanded its selection of free nonfiction ebooks for kids.

Instagram rolled out sprawling changes to how it ranks content this week — and some of those updates could be applied to Threads, says Instagram head Adam Mosseri.

The updates are around how content gets recommended, and Meta says small creators will have a better shot at breaking through.

The TikTok-style discovery feed lets you swipe through livestreams and clips on Twitch’s mobile app. If you land on a livestream you like, you can tap into the stream to start tuning in.

Marques Brownlee asks, incredulously, about 14 minutes into his brutal review of the Rabbit R1, after going over the device’s features (or lack thereof).

The question segues into a rant about the miserable trend of new hardware, games, cars, and now “borderline non-functional” AI gadgets that release half-broken, with promises of something better down the line.

The e-comm giant is betting you might. Shein, mostly known for its bargain bin fashion items, is now looking to sell more household items from established brands like Colgate-Palmolive or Hasbro. It’s part of a strategy to challenge Amazon as Shein looks to IPO later this year.

This “manual transmission pen” is a much cooler version of that pen with the multicolored ink and sliders to bring each one down that we all had in school.

Except with a functioning clutch and shifter for switching tips. It shifts into reverse for the eraser!

At the moment, it seems Meta’s “AI studio” will let people make private and public bots, tuned for duties like personal shopping, trip-planning, meme generation, and helping users “never miss a romantic connection.” (I assume that last one is designed to trawl Craigslist Missed Connections for you.)

Alessandro Paluzzi posted these screenshots in a thread where he’s been tracking the feature since January.

The creator subscription platform markets itself as basically the opposite of the algorithm-driven TikTok — but that doesn’t mean Patreon is celebrating the forced divestment from ByteDance.

Banning TikTok just serves to further entrench YouTube and Instagram as the dominant platforms in this industry. But more competition is good for creators–it gives them more leverage and ultimately more control over their businesses.