China's Cyberspace Administration regulations effective July 15, 2026 banned "virtual intimate relationships" — AI boyfriends, girlfriends, or grandparents — for anyone under 18 and required services …
A stealth AI model named Ox Alpha appeared on OpenRouter and OpenCode, offered free for a week with 100 trillion daily tokens, and users report it matches or beats GPT 5.6 Sol and Fable 5 on benchmark…
Bytedance Seedance V1.5 Pro Image To Video defeated Marey Realism V1.5 in a head-to-head test, scoring 17.2 to 13.4, because it better obeyed the prompt's instructions for specific physical events and…
Bytedance Seedance V1.5 Pro Image To Video defeated Luma Ray 3.2 Image to Video 15.8 to 15.3 in a head-to-head test of two AI video generation models. Seedance won because it more reliably followed ex…
Happy Horse 1.1 Image to Video defeated Bytedance Seedance V1.5 Pro Image To Video in a head-to-head test, scoring 15.6 to 15.4. Seedance excelled at preserving prompt details like wardrobe and framin…
Happy Horse defeated Bytedance Seedance V1.5 Pro Image To Video in a head-to-head test of image-to-video food scenes, scoring 16.7 to 11.4. Happy Horse won by reliably following prompts for camera mot…
Microsoft and Chevron signed a 20-year, 2.67 GW natural gas deal for a West Texas data center, highlighting energy security as a key AI constraint. Samsung deployed ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex compan…
XAI's Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Preview has claimed the top spot on the Image-to-Video Arena leaderboard with an Elo score of 1473, surpassing ByteDance's model at 1467. The ranking, which aggregates ove…
A user reported being charged for Dreamina's video generation service on day six of a free seven-day trial, despite canceling the auto-renewal. The company's AI customer support failed to process the …