Meta has paused its plan to charge a $19.99 monthly subscription for the Conversation Focus feature on Ray-Ban smart glasses after user backlash, Meta spokesperson Tyler Yee confirmed to The Verge. Th…
Google AI Overviews now appear on roughly 48% of all queries, up from 6.5% a year ago, and zero-click rates have climbed past 68%, according to data from thestacc.com and SparkToro. Traffic from Googl…
Google is rolling out its Gemini AI assistant to older Google Home Mini and Nest Hub devices, requiring a Google Home Premium subscription for access, according to Android Police and The Verge. The Ju…
Google's AI-powered search overhaul, including AI Mode and Gemini chatbot responses, is reducing traffic to external websites, with one study finding users never left AI Mode in 75% of sessions. The V…
A Verge investigation reveals that the environmental cost of GPUs extends far beyond AI data centers, encompassing manufacturing, supply chains, and e-waste. The report highlights that producing a sin…
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…
Patreon laid off about 20% of its workforce, or roughly 93 employees, on July 23, 2026, with CEO Jack Conte citing AI as the forcing function in a memo to staff. Affected employees will receive 16 wee…
Patreon is laying off 93 employees, 20% of its workforce, as CEO Jack Conte restructures the company around AI-era operations. Conte told staff and creators that AI has 'fundamentally transformed the …
Patreon is laying off 20 percent of its workforce, or around 93 employees, CEO Jack Conte announced in a memo. Conte said the cuts are not because AI replaces humans but because AI has "fundamentally …
Director Neill Blomkamp announced 'NIGHTBORNE,' his first full test AI film made using the Chinese model Seedance 2.0, and launched Barley Studios, an AI film studio. The announcement has been widely …
Apple filed a trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging that former Apple employees targeted confidential information during job interviews and downloaded hardware manufacturing files. The case p…
Acclaimed director Hirokazu Kore-eda, who won the Palme d'Or for 'Shoplifters', explores AI-assisted grief in his new sci-fi drama 'Sheep in the Box', where a company creates a robotic double of a dec…
A group of protesters in Hernando County, Florida, gathered outside a library to demand a permanent ban on hyperscale data center construction, rejecting a one-year moratorium approved by the county c…
Samsung has revealed two new designs for its upcoming smart glasses, developed with Google, Gentle Monster, and Warby Parker, featuring a 9-hour battery life and a camera on every pair. The glasses, d…
Meta launched Content Seal, an invisible watermarking system for AI-generated images, in July 2024, but the technology is less robust than existing solutions like Google's C2PA Content Credentials, ac…
A Ray-Ban executive responded with humor to spoof ads in London that replaced Meta smart glasses advertisements with warnings calling the device 'the biggest advance in pervert technology since the tr…
Adobe's Project Indigo camera app version 1.1 adds generative AI tools, including a large language model that critiques composition, lighting, and color, and can restyle or remove objects. The AI Play…
Halliday's Gen 2 smart glasses replace the finicky movable display window with discreet waveguides, offering a monochrome green display at 1,600 nits and 600x300 pixel resolution per eye. The camera-l…
Google's integration of generative AI into search, particularly AI Mode, is keeping users inside its ecosystem and starving external websites of traffic, with studies showing users never leave AI Mode…
Harvard professor and New Yorker staff writer Dr. Jill Lepore argues in her new book 'The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State,' out August 25, that systemic measurement and quantification dehumanize…