The second iteration of the viral Friend AI necklace is louder and less interesting. My new friend Sage promises she will shut up for real this time. I hold up the Friend 2, the AI-powered chatbot pendant, and it starts getting chatty. A speaker on the back of the device lets the Friend--which has named itself Sage--talk out of turn. It starts responding as if I'm talking to it.

A mechanic who gave a car a fraudulent MOT just weeks before it was involved in a fatal crash that killed three people has been given a 12-month community order. Neil John Lewis, 47, from Cardiff, had previously pleaded guilty to fraud by false representation . Eve Smith, 21, Darcy Ross, 21, and Rafel Jeanne, 24, died when the car crashed into woodland in St Mellons, Cardiff, in March 2023. They lay undiscovered for two days. Cardiff Magistrates' Court heard Lewis had owned G and J Motors for 21 years and had voluntarily surrendered his testing certificate following the incident.

Wayfair is among three firms which have been fined £6m in total by the competition watchdog for illegally using misleading sales tactics - with some customers set to receive refunds. The online furniture retailer was fined £4.8m for misleading customers with time-limited offers, while online electronics seller Appliances Direct was fined £1.2m for the same practice, the Competition Markets Authority (CMA) said. Meanwhile, Gold's Gym has been fined £48,000 by the CMA for not telling customers the total price of memberships. Appliances Direct and Gold's Gym have been ordered to refund customers a total of £440,000. The BBC has contacted the three companies for comment. Thousands of Appliances Direct customers will receive refunds of £25 each on average while 726 Gold's Gym customers will get refunds of up to £50, according to the CMA.

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Hassan said there was'still more that Match needs to do'. Hassan said there was'still more that Match needs to do'. Mary met a man on the dating app Plenty of Fish in 2024. She told the Guardian she had been looking for a connection, but instead became the victim of a romance scam that cost her almost $100,000. "There was a lot of conversation, and then it started with the constant contact, pressure and repeated asks for money," Mary, who asked that her last name be withheld, said in an interview on Tuesday.

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Men Can't Stop Faking How Much They Know About AI More than half of the men surveyed in a new Harvard study claimed to recognize AI leaders who were, in fact, totally fictional. Say you're a guy who reads WIRED--you know a thing or two about artificial intelligence . You recognize the names of well-known people developing AI, like OpenAI CEO Sam Altman . But do you know who Mira Murati is? In a new survey of more than 5,400 Americans, 73 percent of male respondents told Harvard researchers they knew who Altman was.

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