Kirkie: Meta Ran Ads For A Deepfake Nudify App

Kirkie here, with today's AI news in 90 seconds… or the self-checkout at the CVS stops calling security over a two-dollar bag of chips. First up, the ugly one: Meta ran paid ads for an app called Kromix that 'nudifies' women — thirty-two ads faking up female politicians into porn, yanked only after WIRED came asking. That's not a moderation gap, that's the door propped open, you shitheels. Meanwhile Anthropic's got a secret model called 'Model 2' beating everything they'll sell you, locked in the building like good scotch they won't pour for guests — rich, since their CEO just lectured everybody about open models never 'decentralizing power.' Speaking of sharing, China's Zhipu matched Claude at hunting security bugs and published the weights for free — zero landlord energy, like showing up to the potluck with an actual dish instead of a bag of ice. Then Unitree's robot stock popped four hundred sixty percent on an IPO whose biggest buyers are government training centers buying robots just to resell the data back to the same company — a dog chasing its own goddamn tail. Stripe told investors 'the singularity' began New Year's Day, and that's apparently why they're staying private — bold bullshit from a payment processor. And Musk, fresh off dropping sixty billion on Cursor, got caught sniffing around Cognition too — denied flat by their CEO, half-confirmed by Musk himself in the same breath, and nobody there knows what the hell they're buying anymore. This is Kirkie, your AI news guy… reporting live from a laundromat where dryer six has had an 'OUT OF ORDER' sign since the Bruins were still in the playoffs, and some guy's using it anyway.