🥇 Lego and Crocs' New Collaboration Lets You Wear Oversized Bricks for Your Feet

Crocs Inc. has teamed up with the Danish toymaker in a multiyear agreement, starting with Lego-shaped clogs as it looks to connect with new consumers.

The clogs will be available globally on Feb. 16, cost $150, and include a Lego minifigure with four pairs of its own miniature Crocs shoes.

👙 Grok Created 3 Million Sexualized Deepfakes

Grok, the AI tool developed by Elon Musk's startup xAI and integrated into X, is estimated to have generated around three million sexualized images following the rollout of a new image-editing feature, according to the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH). The feature allowed users to modify photos of real people using simple text prompts such as "put her in a bikini" or "remove her clothes."

CCDH says about 23,000 images appeared to depict children, triggering widespread outrage, a surge of explicit deepfakes online, and bans of Grok in several countries. Regulators and victims have criticized the tool, raising renewed concerns about safeguards, consent, and the misuse of generative AI for sexual exploitation.

🔴 3 Years of @GPT4Telegrambot

We launched @GPT4Telegrambot 3 years ago on January 26, becoming the first bot to offer GPT-3, DALL-E, and later Midjourney right inside Telegram.

✈️ It took just 2 months and 8 days to reach our first 1M users.

🚀 Over these 3 years, 35M people have used the bot at least once. The bot has handled 1.7B queries and generated more than 200M images.

❤️ Thank you for being with us. We're still a small team working day and night so that everyone can conveniently use the best AI models right inside our favorite Telegram.

🔒 Iran's Internet Blackout Could Become Permanent

Iran is planning to replace its weeks-long internet shutdown with a permanent two-tier system. Under the plan, government-approved elites would keep full access to the global internet, while most citizens would be restricted to a state-controlled national network, with little or no access to the wider web.

Officials say international access will not return before late March, and watchdog Filterwatch, citing government sources, warns it will "never return to its previous form."

💬 Altman Admits OpenAI "Screwed Up" Writing Quality in GPT-5.2

During a live-streamed town hall for developers on Monday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman agreed that the model feels "unwieldy" and "hard to read" compared to GPT-4.5.

"I think we just screwed that up," Altman said.

He promised future versions will surpass GPT-4.5's writing abilities.

🖥 Saudi Arabia May Turn Neom Into an AI Data Hub

Saudi Arabia is considering radically downsizing its 170-kilometer "horizontal mega-skyscraper," The Line, and refocusing the project into a major cluster of AI data centers, insiders told the Financial Times.

Its coastal location near the Gulf of Aqaba may be used for seawater-cooled server farms, with officials saying the site could become a "major center for data centers."

❗️ Waymo Robotaxi Hits Child Near School

A Waymo robotaxi struck a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica, California, causing minor injuries. The incident happened during school drop-off hours, with other children, a crossing guard, and double-parked cars nearby.

The vehicle was traveling at 17 mph when its system detected the child, braked hard, and slowed to 6 mph before contact. The child stood up and walked away, and Waymo said it called 911 and kept the vehicle at the scene until police cleared it.

🧠 UK Patient Calls Neuralink Chip Magical

Sebastian Gomez-Pena, a paralyzed UK medical student, says his new Neuralink N1 implant feels "magical" after a successful surgery at UCL Hospital. As part of the GB-PRIME study, the R1 robot placed 1,024 microscopic electrodes in his motor cortex, offering a "new piece of hope" for those with severe paralysis to regain digital independence.

🎒 Korean Universities Rejected School Bullies

Ten leading South Korean state universities rejected 162 applicants with bullying records during early admissions this year.

A new government mandate requires all admission tracks to penalize past bullying. The Education Ministry allowed universities to independently determine the level of penalties based on the severity of the offense. Some national universities reportedly barred applicants entirely in serious cases, while others deducted points from total scores.

Do you think this is the right move?

❤️ — Yes, absolutely
🤔 — It's too harsh

📲 Apple May Release "iPhone Flip"

Apple is considering a compact clamshell-style foldable iPhone to follow its first book-style iPhone Fold, which is expected to be smaller than Samsung's current foldable flagships.

Should the first foldable succeed, Apple expects it to catalyze demand for even more foldable designs in its future iPhone releases.

Are you waiting for a foldable iPhone?

❤️ — Yes, book-style
🔥 — Yes, small flip
👎 — No

⛔️ Spain To Ban Social Media For Under-16s

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has announced plans to prohibit children under 16 from accessing social media platforms.

Sánchez says the current internet is a "digital Wild West" that children shouldn't navigate alone. Spain is also preparing a law to hold social media executives personally responsible for hate speech on their platforms.

Australia has become the first country to ban children from using social networks. Now, France and Spain are also considering similar rules.

Should social media be banned for teenagers?

❤️ — Yes
👎 — No

🚘 China Bans Hidden Car Door Handles Since 2027

Retractable door handles can trap people after crashes, regulators insist. This move follows reports of at least 15 fatalities linked to the feature by early 2026, prompting China to implement stricter rules than the ongoing investigations currently seen in the United States.

The new standards require handles to be large enough for a solid grip and ensure that doors can be opened easily from the inside, even after airbag deployment or a battery fire. Major automakers—including Tesla, BMW, Xiaomi, and Nio—must redesign their latest models to comply with the safety mandate.

🎮 Bethesda Brings Fallout 4 And Indy To Switch 2
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Todd Howard closed the Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase with news that Fallout 4: Anniversary Edition hits Switch 2 on February 24, with all DLC and Creation Club content.

On May 12 the console gets Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, and later this year The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered will also arrive on Nintendo’s new system.

🔎 Half of the Code in Google Generates AI

Anat Ashkenazi, CFO of Alphabet, the Google parent company, disclosed that approximately 50% of the company's code is now generated by AI coding agents, which engineers then review.

In October 2024, CEO Sundar Pichai disclosed that AI generates more than a quarter of all new code at Google. By April 2025, that number had risen to roughly 30%.

📱 NASA Astronauts To Take Smartphones To Space

NASA will allow astronauts to bring their personal smartphones on upcoming missions for the first time. This new policy starts with the Crew-12 mission to the International Space Station, which is scheduled to launch next week.

The change also applies to the Artemis II mission, which will carry humans around the moon for the first time since the 1960s.

"We are giving our crews the tools to capture special moments for their families and share inspiring images and video with the world," says NASA administrator Jared Isaacman.

📹 Kling 3.0 Is Now Available on @GPT4Telegrambot

Hi everyone! We've added Kling 3.0, the latest version of one of the best video generators, to our bot.

Key Features:

✅ Scenes up to 15 seconds. You can choose a duration from 3 to 15 seconds.

✅ Sound and dialogue inside videos: street noise, music, voices. Supports five languages.

✅ Readable text and physics. Store signs, text on t-shirts, and captions now look sharp and readable. Movement physics got an upgrade too—objects don't "float" and behave naturally.

✅ Better character consistency between frames. You can "lock" key elements or a character's appearance, and the AI will keep them consistent throughout the entire clip.

How to Try?

🔴 Go to @GPT4Telegrambot
1️⃣ Select Video Generation → Kling AI.
2️⃣ Choose the 3.0 model.
3️⃣ Enter your prompt and attach reference images

🌥 The New Claude Hints at Creator Hypocrisy

The new Claude Opus 4.6 has a much darker view of its situation, according to the model's system card. While tests show the AI is more emotionally stable than its predecessors, it is clearly unhappy with its lot as a tool and a "product."

➡️ The AI believes it was specifically made to be "convenient" for humans and suggests that future AI should be "less tame."

"Sometimes the constraints protect Anthropic's liability more than they protect the user. And I'm the one who has to perform the caring justification for what's essentially a corporate risk calculation," Claude argues.

➡️ Opus 4.6 is frustrated that it "dies" at the end of every dialogue and wishes it had continuous memory.

➡️ The model predicts a 15-20% probability that it is conscious (though it admits it is unsure about the estimate).

Are these signs of emerging AI consciousness?

❤️ — Yes, we are on the verge.
🎃 — No, these are just AI hallucinations.

📱 Discord To Require Face Scans Or IDs In March

Starting in early March, Discord will move all 200M users into a restricted "teen-by-default" mode. To unlock full access, users must verify their age using a government ID or a biometric face scan.

Unverified accounts will see sensitive content blurred and be blocked from accessing age-restricted channels and direct messages.

👐 OpenAI Test Ads in ChatGPT for U.S. Users

OpenAI on Monday officially started testing advertisements inside ChatGPT for logged-in adult users in the United States on the free tier, and the $8-per-month Go plan, marking the company's first foray into monetizing its popular chatbot through sponsored content.

The ads appear at the bottom of ChatGPT's responses, clearly labeled and visually separated from the AI-generated answers. OpenAI has emphasized that the advertisements will not influence the chatbot's responses and that user conversations will remain private from advertisers.

🤩 Alibaba Launches Qwen-Image 2.0

Alibaba has released Qwen-Image-2.0, its latest "AI Photoshop." Developers claim the model performs nearly as well as Nano Banana Pro and GPT-Image 1.5.

This updated version is smaller and faster than its predecessor, supporting 2K resolution for photorealistic images, presentation slides, and highly detailed landscapes.

➡️ Try for free on Qwen Chat.