GitHub reported its best month ever for Copilot usage in June, following a switch to consumption-based billing on June 1. Chief Technology Officer Vladimir Fedorov disclosed the milestone at an intern…
REI faced backlash after an Instagram ad showed a bike with two sets of handlebars, which users criticized as AI-generated. REI attributed the error to Meta's AI personalization tool, which it said au…
REI Co-op faced backlash after an Instagram ad featured a bike with two sets of handlebars, which the company blamed on a Meta AI tool that automatically altered a vendor-provided image. REI said it w…
Walmart regional load manager Leo Garcia built an AI-powered tool using Google AI certification and Code Puppy to match returning truckloads, reducing empty miles and getting drivers home sooner. Garc…
A new report from video editing software company Kapwing found that 57.4% of TikTok videos targeting children are AI-generated slop, with the #cartoonkids hashtag almost entirely composed of such cont…
A family of five in the UK openly uses AI tools like Claude in their daily lives, integrating voice assistants into work, meal planning, and parenting. The parents teach their three children aged 5 to…
Polaroid launched a global campaign, 'The Best of Summer Is Analog,' featuring a billboard on New York's Coney Island Beach that reads 'Go jump in some water before the data centers drink it all up.' …
CMOs are increasingly taking control of AI strategy and budgets, with BCG's Mark Abraham noting they are in the "driver's seat" for AI decision-making. A survey by Ad Age found about one-third of CMOs…
Polaroid unveiled a billboard at Coney Island Beach reading 'Go jump in some water before the data centers drink it all up,' as part of its anti-AI marketing campaign. The 89-year-old camera company t…
Spotify has overhauled its ad tech stack with Spotify Ad Exchange and introduced generative AI tools for voice overs and ad scripts to reposition itself as more than an audio buy. The company aims to …
Superhuman, the company formerly known as Grammarly, acquired AI detection startup GPTZero for its 19 million users and $30 million in annual recurring revenue. The deal gives Superhuman a second dete…
Superhuman agreed to acquire GPTZero, the AI detection startup founded by Edward Tian, on June 23, 2026. GPTZero has grown from a Princeton senior thesis into a company with 19 million users and $30 m…
Meta has paused an internal program that trained AI on employee data after a leak exposed keystrokes, private conversations, and transcriptions. The program, intended to improve AI models, was halted …
Meta paused its employee computer tracking program after sensitive data, including AI prompts, performance data, and private conversations, was leaked internally. The program, intended to train AI mod…
Meta paused its program tracking employee keystrokes and mouse movements for AI training after an internal leak exposed private conversations, performance data, and transcriptions across the company. …
AI coding tools reduce the cost of producing code but do not eliminate the downstream costs of review, testing, security, and maintenance, according to a new analysis. Dax Raad of OpenCode argues that…
Meta paused its Model Capability Initiative, an AI training program that tracked employee keystrokes and mouse movements, after sensitive data including private conversations and performance data was …
Baden Bower's AI Visibility Index 2026, which tracked 12,040 citations across six AI engines, ranked Forbes first with a score of 92, followed by Business Insider. The study found that editorial outle…
Vladimir Feinberg, a distinguished engineer leading pretraining at Google DeepMind, published a blog post advising applicants to top AI labs to "work like a dog" and cultivate intent, mathematical mat…
Anthropic engineering leader Fiona Fung says Claude Code is making programmers lonelier as they increasingly rely on AI agents, prompting her team to organize programming lunches and hackathons to res…