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…
China's open-weights AI strategy is winning as its companies take the lead, while America's closed-first, locked-down approach is doomed to failure, according to an analysis by Ben Werdmuller. Chinese…
The Verge's Installer newsletter No. 136 highlights the best apps, gadgets, and tools, including a new AI gadget called the Flipper Busy Bar, a major update to the Bear notes app (Bear 2.9), and Chris…
San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu ordered Apple and Google to remove at least 13 AI 'nudify' apps from their app stores that generate nonconsensual intimate deepfakes, warning the companies could…
TikTok is testing an opt-in tool that scans for unauthorized AI-generated likenesses and lets creators report them, initially with some US creators, TikTok US spokesperson Zachary Kizer confirmed to T…
Roblox will let people use AI to make games on their phone with a new feature called Build, which turns text prompts into basic games directly within the Roblox mobile app starting July 28th in public…
OpenAI released its first branded hardware, the $230 Codex Micro keyboard, a limited-run collaboration with Work Louder that adds frosted keys to show AI agent status, but the real prize is a screenle…
26 Meta employees have filed a lawsuit in Oakland, California, alleging that the company used artificial intelligence to select workers for mass layoffs, disproportionately targeting those on medical …