OpenAI has programmed ChatGPT to refuse requests to mimic the style of well-known authors, following a $1.5 billion copyright infringement settlement against Anthropic and amid ongoing copyright lawsu…
OpenAI has updated ChatGPT to refuse requests to write in the exact style of famous authors, instead offering original text inspired by broader genre characteristics, as the company defends against mu…
Filipino cartoonist Elmer Saflor has sued Memes Apps, the company behind AI meme generator Memes.ai, alleging it sold his copyrighted comic 'Running Away Balloon' as an advertising template to paying …
ChatGPT now refuses direct prompts to imitate named authors such as Stephen King, J.K. Rowling, and Charles Dickens, but still generates prose based on broader stylistic traits, according to tests rep…
Verizon is leasing dark fiber routes to Google for over $1 billion under a new initiative called 'AI Connect,' converting its central offices into edge AI data centers, while laying off 13,000 workers…
OpenAI's ChatGPT now refuses direct prompts to imitate named authors, including Stephen King, J.K. Rowling, Amy Tan, Charles Dickens, and Ernest Hemingway, instead offering to write using broad craft …
OpenAI has updated ChatGPT to stop directly imitating the writing styles of famous authors like Stephen King, instead offering responses that draw on the author's broad qualities while maintaining its…
Philippines-based artist Elmer Saflor filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Memes Apps, the company behind Memes.ai and Memes AI Studio, for offering his copyrighted "Running Away Balloon" co…
Artist Elmer Saflor, known online as Superelmer, sued Memes Apps, LLC—operator of Memes.ai and Memes AI Studio—for copyright infringement, alleging the company sells paid subscriptions to an AI ad gen…
Lee Hutchinson used large language models to design a case for his digital clock, connecting LLMs to Autodesk Fusion 360's new MCP server feature. A local Qwen model made progress but required a secon…
Researchers at Peking University and East China Normal University used AlphaFold3 to redesign CRISPR base editors, reducing off-target activity from 28% to 5% in one comparison while preserving on-tar…
A Canadian legislator in New Brunswick read an AI prompt aloud during a floor speech, including the chatbot's meta-commentary. The incident highlights the importance of reviewing AI-generated text bef…
Progressive Conservative MLA Bill Oliver read an AI chatbot's rewriting instruction aloud in the New Brunswick legislature on July 24, 2026, inadvertently reciting the prompt wrapper 'Here's a more na…
Roku raised prices on several streaming devices by up to 60%, blaming memory and component shortages tied to the AI data-center boom. The Roku Ultra jumped from $100 to $150 and the basic Streaming St…
Google released three new Gemini AI models on Tuesday, slashing prices to lock developers into its infrastructure while withholding a cybersecurity tool for governments only. Gemini 3.6 Flash uses up …
AI search visibility tools that count how often a model mentions a brand in response to prompts are measuring the wrong number, according to technical SEO consultant Jono Alderson and data from the No…
Linus Torvalds said the Linux kernel will not ban AI-assisted coding tools, telling critics in a Linux kernel mailing list post that they can "fork it. Or just walk away." Torvalds rejected the Softwa…
The European Commission's Digital Markets Act mandates Google to share search metrics with rivals and give third-party AI assistants system-level access on Android by 2027, calling the decisions legal…
OpenAI released its first branded hardware, the $230 Codex Micro keyboard, a limited-run collaboration with Work Louder that adds frosted keys to show AI agent status, but the real prize is a screenle…
PsiQuantum, a company founded in 2016 by four physicists from UK universities, plans to build the first useful quantum computer using light particles, housed in a room resembling a data center crossed…