• TikTok is pulling back on testing an AI feature that added text summaries to videos.
• The tool was prone to hallucinations, comparing Charli D’Amelio to blueberries and a dog training video to origami.
• Going forward, the feature will focus on identifying products in videos, a TikTok spokesperson said.

Did TikTok just have its “glue pizza” moment?

The company is pulling back on a new artificial intelligence feature it was testing that went haywire, adding wildly inaccurate AI-generated text summaries to videos from users like Charli D’Amelio, Shakira, and Saturday Night Live.

These “AI overviews” were designed to provide additional context for a video, recommend similar products to what’s on-screen, and generally explain what was happening. While the tool did a good job summarizing some posts, for others, it hallucinated more than Bryan Johnson did during his livestream mushroom trip.

Here are a few chaotic examples of AI overviews this reporter saw on the app in the past week:

• The AI feature described a video of Charli D’Amelio, sitting alone in front of a white wall and talking directly to the camera, as a “collection of various blueberries with different toppings.”
• A post from a dog trainer explaining why dogs kick their feet after going to the bathroom was described as “a captivating display of intricate origami art, meticulously folded from a single sheet.”
• A video from Shakira promoting a new song release, per the AI overview, was “a repetitive sequence of several distinct blue shapes appearing and moving across the screen.”
• A viral post about feeling heartbroken from a user named Victoria was described as a “mesmerizing close-up of a tiny hand repeatedly tracing intricate patterns on a smooth surface.”
• A video of Olivia Rodrigo promoting her upcoming appearance on SNL was called a “person’s face being gradually replaced by a random, nonsensical string of letters and numbers.”

One Reddit user wrote that it was as if the feature would look at a video and then “independently open a different tab and use a random text generator to create a caption.”

Now, following user feedback, TikTok is pulling back on the test, a company spokesperson confirmed to Business Insider. The AI overview feature has been updated to focus on identifying products in a video rather than describing a video’s full contents, they said.

The tool, which has been testing for a few months, was available to a limited set of users in the US and a few other markets, the spokesperson said, describing it as an experiment.

TikTok declined to share which models it used to power its AI overviews, but an in-app description of the feature says it relied on either TikTok’s own AI tech or third-party products.

Seeing hallucinatory AI summaries show up in my feed this week felt like a throwback to when ChatGPT and other early AI products regularly made stuff up.

When Google released its version of AI overviews in 2024, the feature confidently proclaimed that a dog had played in the NHL, for example. It told my coworker Katie Notopoulos to add glue to her pizza to keep the cheese from sliding off.

While AI tools are getting better at answering some questions — a recent analysis by the AI firm Oumi found Google’s AI overviews were accurate about 90% of the time — it felt oddly comforting to see that a technology that doomsdayers predict will wipe out white-collar jobs and take over many facets of our lives can still fail in silly and surprising ways.

• A US Navy fighter jet disabled the rudder of an Iranian-flagged tanker on Wednesday with its 20 mm cannon.
• The tanker was trying to bypass the blockade of Iran’s ports, the US military said.
• It’s the second time the US has used force against an Iranian commercial ship in recent weeks.

A US Navy fighter jet knocked out the rudder of an Iranian-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman on Wednesday using its 20 mm cannon, the American military said.

The incident is the second time that the Navy has used force to disable an Iranian commercial vessel since the Trump administration began its blockade of maritime traffic going in and out of Iranian ports last month.

US Central Command, which oversees American forces in the Middle East, said it observed the unladen tanker M/T Hasna as it transited international waters en route to an Iranian port on the Gulf of Oman.

The ship “failed to comply” with repeated US military warnings that it was sailing in violation of the blockade, CENTCOM said. A Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet that launched from the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln fired several rounds from its 20 mm cannon gun into the Hasna’s rudder.

In addition to the missiles the carrier-based fighter jet is able to carry on the wings, the Super Hornet is armed with an internal 20 mm M61A2 six-barrel rotary cannon.

CENTCOM said that it disabled the tanker, which is “no longer transiting to Iran.” It added that the blockade of Iran’s ports “remains in full effect.”

Last month, a Navy destroyer fired nine inert rounds from its 5-inch deck gun into the engine room of an Iranian-flagged cargo vessel trying to evade the blockade in the Arabian Sea. It marked a rare use of force by the Navy against a non-combat vessel.

The Navy destroyer, USS Spruance, intercepted the Iranian-flagged cargo boat M/V Touska, which was sailing toward Iran through the Arabian Sea at 17 knots. The Navy said that it issued several warnings, which the Touska ignored. The Spruance then ordered the evacuation of the engine room and opened fire.

The engagement disabled the vessel, which was subsequently boarded by Marines.

The US military operation against Iran, Operation Epic Fury, has concluded. The more recent focus has been on securing ship movement through the Strait of Hormuz as part of a new initiative called “Project Freedom,” though that was paused Wednesday as Washington and Tehran discuss a deal.

In recent days, US Navy vessels have been working to clear a path through the strait and establish a defensive umbrella for commercial ships to travel under. Iran has fired drones and missiles at commercial and military vessels in the area. The US has fended off threats and responded with force, including by using helicopters to sink Iranian small boats.

• I went from zero to two kids, and you grossly underestimate experiencing life before twins.
• There is nothing in this world to prepare you for becoming a twin parent.
• The Married Single Parent thing is a real phenomenon, so I step up as best as I can.

In February 2019, at 12:23 and 12:24 p.m., my life changed in an instant.

On the second night after my twin girls were born, we wanted them to sleep in the room with us. That night was the exact moment when I realized that twin parenthood is a totally different beast.

We were constantly awakened because one child would fall back asleep, only for the other to wake up shortly after. That cycle continued the entire night. Needless to say, we sent them back to the nursery so we could get some sleep.

A few days later, we were discharged to go home, and the journey began: adjusting to being twin parents.

My wife and I enjoyed being DINKs

Before kids, my wife and I traveled, had plenty of late nights, bar-hopped, attended Beychella, and enjoyed the freedom of being a DINK couple. Then, in the summer of 2018, we found out we were going to be parents.

We really underestimated this and didn’t know how much life was about to change.

Nothing actually prepares you for becoming a parent. I’m seven years into this, and I’m still learning. Going from zero to two overnight was a shocker, and nobody can ever prepare you for this.

It feels like you are being herded as fast as possible through a narrow hallway that doesn’t end, and the anxiety of what happens next is always on your tail. The first, and obvious, change is finances. Everything is in twos: formula, clothes, private school tuition, everything. One of the beauties of having a gap in kids is the hand-me-down factor. With multiples, you don’t get that.

My mom did her best to teach me the ins and outs of home operations from her side of the house. Then, when parenthood came along, I went into focus mode so my wife wouldn’t feel like a married single parent.

I don’t want my wife to be a married single parent

I do my best to support my wife as much as possible. Thinking back on my childhood, I remember my dad being present. I used to hear stories about absent dads and learned to appreciate his presence, especially as I got older. I learned from my mom after he passed that he tried his best. She also made sure to instill in me what it meant to support your wife as a present parent.

Now, talking to other parents and even the organic interactions in public make being a married single parent a real problem. For example, one night while we were feeding, I noticed my wife was tired and exhausted from her day. My mother’s words and advice clicked right then. I refuse to let her be a married single parent. She’s my best friend, and I wouldn’t want to let my best friend drown.

With us both navigating twin parenthood, stepping up as best I can is an active choice every day. It’s also a choice that has taught me a lot.

My twins are everything to me

While the challenges of twin fatherhood are heavy, being a twin dad is one of the best blessings I have. My girls love coming to the hardware store with me, and our thing is playing tic-tac-toe on the smart fridges. It’s moments like that that teach me the value of just being there in the simple moments.

Another thing my daughters have taught me is how to be soft. I grew up playing sports, had a stint in combat sports, am an entrepreneur, and am always seeking a challenge. Building the plane as it’s flying is in my nature, so I developed a bit of a hard skin to withstand adversity. When they came along, I had to learn to revise that. They are full of emotions and, even now, at times, it’s a challenge for me to navigate.

My girls are helping me learn how to dial it back.

• Anthropic and SpaceX have signed a new deal for 300 megawatts of compute capacity.
• The OpenAI rival will use Colossus One data center to boost Claude Code for developers.
• SpaceX, after acquiring xAI, is inking new deals to sell GPU access.

Anthropic is turning to Elon Musk for computing capacity.

As the company faces a surge in demand for its AI coding service, Claude Code, Anthropic will use SpaceX’s Colossus One data center to meet the moment. Chief Product Officer Ami Vora announced the blockbuster deal at Anthropic’s developer conference in San Francisco on Wednesday morning.

Vora said that Anthropic is doubling the current 5-hour rate limit for developers on Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans. The company is also raising rate limits for developers using the advanced Claude Opus model’s API, allowing more input and output per minute. These moves will stretch the company’s already strained computing capacity.

Given this challenge, Anthropic has turned to SpaceX, which acquired Musk’s xAI lab back in February. SpaceX’s Memphis-based Colossus One data center is one of the world’s largest, housing tens of thousands of advanced Nvidia chips that run AI’s compute-intensive work. Musk’s rapid buildout of the site and the nearby Colossus 2 data center have provoked ire locally, with residents complaining of pollution from gas turbines.

Anthropic expects the deal to deliver more than 300 megawatts of computing capacity within the month, across more than 220,000 Nvidia GPUs. This builds on the company’s strategy of sourcing chip time and capacity from hyperscaling giants — work with Google, Amazon, and Microsoft is also underway.

The deal is another in SpaceX’s fledgling compute sales business. Business Insider reported in April that the coding startup Cursor would train its latest model on xAI’s GPUs. By inking computing deals with other companies, SpaceX and xAI can generate revenue from their own infrastructure, while also still developing AI models.

Musk, as recently as February, excoriated Anthropic’s Claude model as “misanthropic and evil.” But the billionaire’s mind has changed, he wrote Wednesday on X. Musk said he spent time last week with Anthropic leaders, and was impressed: “Everyone I met was highly competent and cared a great deal about doing the right thing. No one set off my evil detector.”

There could be another deal between Anthropic and SpaceX in the works. Tucked low in the press release accompanying this announcement, Anthropic wrote that it has “expressed interest” in working with SpaceX to build data centers in space.

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• OpenAI lost two more senior staffers after a trio of departures in mid-April.
• Paul Zimmerman, the AI lab’s former head of private equity, announced a move to Google.
• OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google are increasingly turning to PE firms for help ramping sales.

Two more senior staffers left OpenAI in recent days, including its head of private equity, who was hired by Google.

Paul Zimmerman said he now leads Google’s efforts to sell its AI to PE firms and their portfolio companies. He’d worked at OpenAI for just over a year, according to his LinkedIn profile.

Meanwhile, James Dyett, who described himself as OpenAI’s head of sales, announced he was leaving for VC firm Thrive Capital, a major OpenAI backer.

The pair make the latest high-profile departures from the company after three execs left in a single day last month.

The generative AI race has shifted from consumer adoption to business use cases in the past year, with Anthropic, OpenAI and other leaders seeking bigger, steadier revenue that often comes from corporate customers. One way to do that is by going through private-equity firms that control thousands of companies and are looking for ways to make them more efficient.

OpenAI is launching a $10 billion joint venture with PE firms including TPG and Bain Capital, Bloomberg and Reuters reported recently. Arch rival Anthropic also launched a partnership with PE firms worth $1.5 billion.

Google is also in talks with Blackstone and KKR to bring its AI models to their firms, Bloomberg reported.

Zimmerman declined to comment to Business Insider. Dyett, OpenAI and Google did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

• Blake Lively is a frequent Met Gala attendee, walking its famous red carpet 11 times.
• She has upped her Met Gala fashion game nearly every year she has attended.
• Lively wore a pastel gown at the 2026 Met Gala after settling her legal dispute with Justin Baldoni.

The 2026 Met Gala has come and gone in a haze of sparkly dresses, bold suits, and celebrity sightings.

Celebrities interpreted the “Costume Art”-themed gala’s “Fashion is Art” dress code in a variety of ways, from Beyoncé’s sparkly skeleton dress to Lauren Sánchez Bezos’ recreation of a painting inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

In one of the most exciting red-carpet moments of Monday night, Blake Lively returned to the Met after a four-year hiatus in one of her boldest looks to date.

Check out every look Lively has worn to the Met Gala, ranked from least to most iconic.

Lively’s Marchesa minidress for the 2010 Met Gala was playful but lackluster compared to her other looks.

Lively’s minidress stood out on the “American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity” red carpet, which was full of floor-length gowns. She paired it with glittery black shoes and Lorraine Schwartz jewelry.

The outfit was pretty but not as eye-catching as the actor’s other Met Gala looks. 

Lively made her Met Gala debut in an overly simple Ralph Lauren dress in 2008.

The theme of the 2008 Met Gala was “Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy,” and Lively attended in a black, mermaid-style dress with feathers on the skirt.

Black gloves and diamond bracelets brought a fun flair to the look, but it was a bit plain overall.

Lively opted for an edgier look for the “PUNK: Chaos to Couture” Met Gala in 2013.

Lively’s strapless Gucci gown had a gray bodice and a black skirt, with tiers of silk fabric and metallic beading across the hips.

She completed her look with statement diamond earrings. 

At the 2009 gala, Lively began embracing daring fashion in a Versace dress with a thigh-high slit.

Lively paired her outfit with simple gold heels at the “The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion” gala.

Her understated accessories drew attention to the sheer sleeve, thigh-high slit, and plunging neckline of her dress. 

Lively looked elegant at the 2011 Met Gala in a Grecian-inspired dress.

The same year that Lively became the face of Chanel, she attended the “Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty”-themed event in a gown from the brand’s Fall 2009 Haute Couture collection.

The bodice had a sheer base embellished with silver flowers, while taupe fabric draped over one side and was attached at her shoulder.

In 2014, Lively exuded Old Hollywood glamour in her sparkly dress, cementing her place as a style icon to watch at the gala.

The actor arrived at the “Charles James: Beyond Fashion” exhibit in a floor-length, sequin-covered gown from Gucci Première. The blush gown hugged her figure to the thigh, flaring subtly at the knee into a dramatic train.

The red jewelry Lively wore coordinated with the pink color of the dress.

Lively’s pink look for the 2016 “Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology” Met Gala didn’t fit the theme, but she still made a statement.

Lively looked ethereal in the pink Burberry dress. It had a thigh-high slit covered in sheer fabric, offering a glimpse of Lively’s leg, and a red, floral appliqué adorned the gown’s built-in cape.

When she walked the red carpet, Lively was pregnant with her second child, but the news hadn’t been made public yet.

Lively stepped up her Met Gala game even further with the gold Atelier Versace gown she wore at the 2017 Met Gala.

Lively’s dress for the “Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons: Art of the In-Between” Met Gala was mostly gold, with long sleeves and a plunging neckline.

The train had four shades of blue feathers, so Lively looked like she was about to take flight. She completed her look with sapphire and gold jewelry. 

Blake Lively surprised fans when she arrived at the 2026 Met Gala in a custom Versace look.

On the same day that the 2026 “Costume Art” Met Gala took place, Lively and Justin Baldoni settled their legal dispute over the film “It Ends With Us” just weeks before they were set to go to trial.

Rather than staying out of the public eye as the dust settled, Lively arrived at the Met Gala mere hours later in an archival Versace gown from 2006.

The dress had a pale-yellow halter bodice with silver sparkles along the sides. Soft yellow, peach, and purple layers of fabric made up the full skirt, and Lively told Vogue she had the train lengthened to make a stronger statement for the Met. It trailed behind her as she ascended the stairs.

The bold look signaled Lively was closing the chapter on a dramatic time in her life. A PR expert told Business Insider it was the perfect stage for a comeback.

At the 2018 gala, Lively wore another Atelier Versace dress with sheer slits on both legs.

Lively’s Versace gown for the “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination” Met Gala took more than 600 hours to make.

The ornate ruby-and-gold gown was designed with a jewel-encrusted corset. She accessorized the dramatic look with a spiked headpiece, Christian Louboutin shoes, and Lorraine Schwartz jewelry.

The gown was one of the best looks at the 2018 Met Gala.

Lively wore her most stylish Met Gala look in 2022, channeling the Statue of Liberty in a gown that transformed on the carpet.

The actor, who co-chaired the 2022 event alongside her husband Ryan Reynolds, arrived at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in a custom Versace look that changed from bronze to green to mirror the oxidation of the famous New York City landmark. The dress was embroidered with crystal, metallic leather, and tri-tone copper foil. 

When Lively arrived, the dress had an oversize copper bow at the hip that gave way to a long, dramatic train. The bow unraveled as Lively walked along the red carpet, becoming green.

Lively told E! on the red carpet that the front of the dress was also designed to emulate the architecture of the Empire State Building, and her Lorraine Schwartz crown was another accessory meant to mimic the Statue of Liberty. 

E!’s Zanna Roberts Rassi said the green side of the train was embroidered with a celestial map inspired by the same 12 zodiac constellations painted on the ceiling of New York’s Grand Central Terminal.