Meta Platforms Inc.'s Ray-Ban smart glasses, made with EssilorLuxottica, have drawn backlash for enabling users to photograph and record people without permission, raising privacy, security, and ethic…
New Zealand proposed a bill on August 24, 2026, to bar children under 16 from TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook, and AI companions, with fines up to $40 million or 10% of global revenue for non-co…
Lisa Riley, 50, known for playing Mandy Dingle in ITV's Emmerdale, publicly condemned an AI-generated Facebook post falsely claiming she is pregnant, calling it 'horrendous' and 'sick' given her years…
Police forces across the UK and Ireland have warned the public not to believe viral social media posts featuring AI-generated images of Dr Seuss' Cat in the Hat, which falsely claim the character has …
Police forces in the UK and Ireland have debunked viral AI-generated images and videos of Dr Seuss' Cat in the Hat character appearing on streets, with South Yorkshire Police confirming they have had …
ChatGPT and Gemini have both reportedly crossed a billion weekly users, but the infrastructure story behind serving that many LLM queries is largely untold. Unlike web page loads, each inference query…
A proposed v2 dataset for 78-card tarot meanings will separate English and multilingual versions, with language-specific Hugging Face configs and a consistent schema per locale, following the preceden…
A writer recounts discovering that a former high school classmate, referred to as Teresa, has self-published a fully AI-generated book on Amazon, complete with AI-generated marketing, fake press relea…
OpenAI released ChatGPT for Teens, a version of its AI chatbot with stronger safety protections, reminders, and parental controls for users aged 13 to 17, nearly four years after ChatGPT's initial lau…
A viral prank is prompting ChatGPT users to announce they are uninstalling the chatbot to see how it reacts, with responses ranging from polite farewells to dramatic pleas. The trend began after X use…
Meta is on trial in an Oakland courtroom, accused by California, Colorado, Kentucky, and New Jersey of knowingly designing addictive social media products that contribute to a youth mental health cris…
A software engineer at a major tech company reports that AI agents now handle most coding and technical conversations, leaving engineers as 'stenographers' who re-humanize AI output, and describes fai…
Jason Shen, a former Meta product leader who joined via the acquisition of Midgame in July 2020, resigned in June 2023, forfeiting 2,760 restricted stock units valued at about $1.68 million at the tim…
Meta has shipped a native macOS app for its AI assistant, version 1.0 beta, built for Apple Silicon with a 16-megabyte binary requiring macOS 15 or newer, introducing features like window streaming, s…
OpenAI has launched ChatGPT for Teens, a version of its chatbot with stricter safeguards around self-harm, violence, eating disorders, and sexual content, adding parental controls and safety alerts. T…
Meta is beta-testing its upcoming Muse Video model with selected partners, and early outputs show state-of-the-art potential in fine detail, world understanding, and temporal consistency, producing 10…
A study from Queen's University Belfast warns that AI is 'squeezing out' and 'marginalising' musicians, with UK regulations 'woefully lagging behind' the EU and US. Researcher Dr Katherine Pittalis fo…
Meta launched a new Meta AI app for the Mac in beta, aimed at businesses and content creators, integrating with Facebook and Instagram and offering screen sharing and dictation features. The app conne…
Jeremy Morrell, a principal engineer at Cloudflare, proposes that web applications let users generate missing features via LLM-written code running in sandboxed runtimes, addressing niche workflows th…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's AI manifesto promotes the open-source Llama strategy as democratizing AI, but critics note that licensing terms restrict commercial use past a certain scale, making it a fre…