AI slop stories are spoiling the childhood
AI slop, the colloquial term for low-effort AI-generated content, has emerged as a huge problem across different industries. Music labels…
OpenAI is investigating more incidents of AI agents going rogue days after hack
It appears that the “AI agents going rogue” tale has more to it than what AI giants have revealed publicly…
AI is finding Apple security flaws faster than Apple can sort through them
Apple has capped the number of security reports researchers can keep open at once after AI bug hunting put its…
Anthropic is paying $1.5 billion over pirated books, but it can still legally cut up purchased ones
A federal judge has approved Anthropic’s $1.5 billion settlement over nearly half a million pirated books. The same litigation also…
OpenAI president confirms a family of ChatGPT devices is coming soon
Talking to your computer instead of typing to it might sound like a sci-fi fantasy, but OpenAI is betting big…
Free AI chatbots are disrupting China’s expensive college counseling industry
Every summer, roughly 10 million Chinese students face a brutal deadline. After taking the grueling Gaokao college entrance exam, they…
Gemini can now summarize the messiest comment threads in Google Docs
Shared Google Docs have a way of turning feedback into archaeology. Once several reviewers pile into the same file, figuring…
Study says relying on AI can turn doubt into false confidence
You’d think getting wrong advice would make you more cautious. New research says the opposite happens when that advice comes…
Researchers have built a tool that can identify the AI used to make a fake video
AI-generated videos have gotten so realistic that spotting a fake is difficult enough on its own. Figuring out which AI…
AI’s latest problem is deepfake disaster content for farming engagement
Social feeds around the earthquakes in Venezuela filled with recycled footage and AI-generated destruction. Severe weather in China attracted its…
AI dramas need actors, so Chinese platforms are turning human faces into stock assets
People in China can now license their face to AI much like a photographer licenses a stock image. AI creators…
Claude Opus 5 is here, and Anthropic says it can rival Fable 5 in some tasks
Anthropic has launched Claude Opus 5, its latest frontier AI model for coding, research, business work, and other complex tasks.…
Humans actually prefer talking to an AI than a support person, says gas giant as it cuts jobs
Centrica, owner of British Gas, is cutting 1,300 call centre jobs, and its chief executive says changing customer behaviour is…
China’s AI talent shortage has tech giants recruiting teenagers
A 13-year-old boy in Hangzhou has already won national AI competitions and built a following of more than 136,000 people…