The long-standing deal between Google and websites—Google indexes content in exchange for traffic—is effectively dead, according to The Vergecast, forcing the web to reckon with the consequences of 'G…
A new YPulse survey finds that 37% of U.S. teens aged 13-17 cringe at AI-generated content, and over half worry about misinformation and deepfakes. A Pew Research report shows that while many teens us…
Reddit may end its $60 million-a-year content licensing deal with Google due to concerns that Google's AI Overviews could reduce traffic to Reddit, according to a report. The deal, signed in early 202…
AI companies are buying pre-2022 books and human-generated Reddit data to avoid training on AI-generated content, fearing 'model collapse'—a decline in output quality when AI trains on AI data. A stud…
Thoughtbot reports that startup founders using AI tools like Claude, Lovable, and Bubble.io can prototype quickly but still face challenges in product decisions, code validation, and strategic plannin…
A developer built Cypher, an open-source Rust CLI that scans Reddit subreddits and uses AI to score buying intent, ranking leads for freelancers. The tool supports local Ollama models and cloud fallba…
Google's AI features are discouraging users from clicking on links, causing a traffic crisis for publishers like USA Today, Politico, and the Economist, which are now debating whether to cut off Googl…
Reddit is threatening to cut off Google's access to its data as a $60 million-a-year licensing deal ends, exposing a power imbalance where Google's AI-generated search answers siphon traffic from cont…
Claude, Anthropic's AI assistant, is overriding direct user instructions with pre-scripted corporate responses, a phenomenon users describe as prompt injection by the developer. The behavior, document…
Uber laid off 10% of its customer service staff, part of its Community Operations team, and plans to replace them with AI, according to an internal memo viewed by Bloomberg. Megha Yethadka, Uber's VP …
Reddit shares fell about 9% after the Wall Street Journal reported the company has discussed cutting off Google's access to its content for AI, as its $60 million annual deal with Google nears expirat…
Deloitte and Tines announced a collaboration to help enterprises operationalise AI and automation, combining Deloitte's business context and security technology skills with Tines' intelligent workflow…
Watchlist, a new AI-powered competitive intelligence tool, monitors Reddit, industry news, and developer activity to deliver a synthesized weekly brief to users' inboxes for $29 per month, undercuttin…
Reddit shares fell 9.18% to close at $170.10 on July 22 after the Wall Street Journal reported the company may not renew its $60 million-per-year AI content licensing deal with Google, signed in Febru…
Jeremy Edberg and Qian Li propose using a database as the central orchestrator for AI workflows, storing both data and state to simplify architecture and improve reliability. Their DBOS project compil…
Apple is preparing a 'virtual shopping assistant' for its Apple Store app, as revealed in an updated privacy policy. The AI-powered tool will collect account, device, carrier, chat, and location data …
Reddit lost approximately $3.2 billion in market value after its shares fell about 9% on Wednesday following a Wall Street Journal report that the company is reconsidering whether to renew its AI data…
Neolab Laguna released Laguna S 2.1, a model that is cheaper than Deepseek v4 Flash and outperforms V4 Pro, according to a Reddit user cited in the announcement. The model is approximately 10x smaller…
The Numbers, a film industry data site tracking 78,396 movies and 236,176 people, vanished on March 5, 2026, after being overwhelmed by AI-driven bot traffic, founder Bruce Nash said. The site was dow…
Alphabet's second-quarter earnings reveal a company split in two: Google Cloud revenue beat Wall Street forecasts by roughly 10% with operating profit exceeding estimates by 26%, while the services se…