🤑 Whoopsie on the blockchain: Get this. Paxos, PayPal’s crypto partner, accidentally minted $300 trillion worth of PYUSD stablecoins, more than double the world’s GDP. It was only an internal test gone sideways and got deleted 20 minutes later. No hacks. No lost funds. Just … a minor blip involving more imaginary dollars than Earth can handle. Sounds like a ghost story for economists. OoOoOh…
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Doubling down on dumb: So this lawyer in New York trusted AI to write his court brief, and guess what, it invented fake cases. But here’s the kicker: When the judge asked him to explain, he used AI again. I can’t decide if that’s guts or pure delusion. We’ve entered the “My AI did my homework” era of law.
🙊 ChatGPT, talk dirty to me: Sam Altman just said ChatGPT’s about to get intimate. Like, actual adult conversations, and I’m not talking mortgages and tax season. Part of an attempt to relax safety restrictions and a “treat adults like adults” plan, your friendly little chatbot is going to allow things like erotica for “verified adults.” Translation: The bots are getting lonely.
🛒 AI meets aisle five: Starting in a few weeks, you’ll be able to shop Walmart inside ChatGPT. Yep, you can chat your way to new jeans or a TV without leaving the app (paywall link). It’s part of Walmart’s push with OpenAI, letting people link their Walmart or Sam’s Club accounts and hit “buy.” Fresh food’s not included yet, but everything else’s fair game. Next up: Black Friday brawls in-app.
📦 Santa’s little workforce: Amazon’s hiring 250,000 U.S. workers for the holidays, nearly half of the nation’s entire seasonal workforce. Competitors like Target and Kohl’s are keeping quiet, maybe because they’re not hiring much at all. Average pay? Up to $23 an hour. If you’re interested, apply before the jobs are all scooped up.
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🧠 Too many tabs, huh: Microsoft quietly admitted OneDrive sync could be tanking Windows 11 performance. It’s enabled by default, which is cute until File Explorer takes three years to open. If you’ve got Windows, right-click that cloud icon and pause syncing to see if your PC stops wheezing. If you’ve got Apple, keep laughing until that monthly iCloud bill comes in.
🤖 Killer app idea: Eric Schmidt (the ex-Google guy) just said out loud what sci-fi movies have been yelling for decades, that AI could literally learn how to kill people if hacked. Speaking in London, he warned that guardrails can be removed and “bad actors” could teach AIs murder. Coming from the guy who helped build the internet’s brain, that’s … reassuring.
🤯 Planet ChatGPT: According to researchers from OpenAI, Duke and Harvard, over 700 million people use ChatGPT monthly. That’s about one in 10 adults (paywall link) on Earth. Sam Altman just updated that to 800 million weekly users, firing off 2.5 billion messages a day. For context, that’s about 29,000 “write me a poem about my ex” requests every second.