Snap Inc., the parent company of Snapchat, announced on Friday that its Spotlight recommendation system will no longer reward fully AI-generated videos, prioritizing content created by real people. Th…
George Hahn reports that hidden debt is fueling America's AI buildout, while China spreads cheap, open-source AI globally, and the rise of solo founders signals a new creator economy. The episode also…
YouTube and Substack are taking different approaches to curb AI-generated content, with YouTube restricting monetization for certain AI-narrated videos and Substack rolling out an AI detector powered …
LinkedIn has added a “seems like AI slop” button to posts, allowing users to flag content they believe is AI-generated, as part of a broader effort to reduce low-quality AI content. Chief Product Offi…
Google Search traffic to publishers fell 34% over the past year, according to Chartbeat data shared with Axios, as AI-generated answers replace traditional links. Small publishers lost 60% of search r…
Employers and platforms are increasingly using AI text detectors, but experts warn their results are unreliable signals, not definitive proof. In March, Hachette Book Group canceled Mia Ballard's nove…
LinkedIn, a Microsoft Corp. subsidiary, is adding a 'seems like AI slop' button to let users report AI-generated content, as announced by Chief Product Officer Hari Srinivasan in a blog post. The comp…
LinkedIn is adding a 'Seems like AI slop' button that lets users flag AI-generated posts and comments, with chief product officer Hari Srinivasan announcing the feature in a LinkedIn post. The company…
LinkedIn is adding a button to let users report posts as 'AI slop' as part of a broader crackdown on low-quality, AI-generated content, Chief Product Officer Hari Srinivasan announced Thursday. The Mi…
LinkedIn has added a button on every post allowing users to flag content that 'seems like AI slop,' according to a Bluesky post by user @scientits.bsky.social. The move comes as AI detection company P…
LinkedIn is introducing a new feature this week that lets users flag posts that 'seem like AI slop,' removing them from the feed and privately notifying the poster that their words 'may have come off …
A growing number of writers are deliberately breaking rules of clean prose—using more typos, fewer em dashes, and intentional grammatical errors—to signal human authorship, according to a Wired articl…
Pangram, a New York-based AI detection startup, has raised $9 million in a funding round led by Menlo Ventures, bringing its total funding to roughly $14 million since its founding in 2023. The compan…
A new MCP server called Posting Substack API allows Cursor, Claude, and other MCP hosts to draft, publish, and schedule posts to Substack, which lacks a native public API, expanding the MCP ecosystem …
Substack contributors are rejecting the company's new AI detection tool, calling it a 'witch hunt' and warning that false positives could tarnish writers' reputations. Substack CEO Christ Best announc…
Substack's new 'Scan for AI text' feature, introduced July 21st, estimates how much of a post was written by a human or with AI assistance, sparking debate on the platform, X and Reddit. The author ar…
Hedge fund manager Michael Burry increased bearish wagers on AI-linked stocks including Nvidia and Micron Technology, testing Beijing's stock market support as Moody's warned of debt risks from hypers…
A small company used AI agents to perform root-cause analysis on customer support tickets, reducing weekly ticket volume from 52 to 19, a 63% drop, by identifying and fixing repeatable structural prob…
A step-by-step playbook for automating support tickets with AI, based on a documented case where a small team reduced weekly issues from 52 to 19 by eliminating root causes rather than speeding respon…
Substack has added AI text detection to all notes and posts, the company announced in a blog post titled 'Against Claudefishing.' The feature aims to identify content generated by large language model…