The European Union's AI Act transparency obligations took effect on August 2, 2026, requiring companies to disclose AI interactions and label AI-generated content. Providers must design AI systems to …
Voice actress Megumi Ogata, known for roles in Evangelion and Danganronpa, called on the Japanese government to establish rules against unauthorized AI voice cloning, calling the practice 'heartbreaki…
The Trump administration has expanded its protectionist campaign against Chinese technology to include robot vacuums, lawnmowers, and other software-controlled ground robots, according to a report fro…
Lerobit announced the upcoming release of its MMP V1 AI social media management tool, which will create, schedule, and publish content across LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok. The tool, curre…
Alcorn State University history professor Jason Gibson revealed that 32 of his 35 students failed a portion of his midterm after he discovered they used artificial intelligence to generate responses, …
Snapchat has stopped algorithmically recommending wholly AI-generated videos on Spotlight, its short-form video feed, as the company tries to direct more distribution toward videos made by people. The…
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman announced on the company's Q2 2026 earnings call that Reddit is developing "video Reddit" or "spoken Reddit," features that will let users watch or listen to posts, with testi…
Snap Inc. announced that Snapchat will ban AI-generated content from its Spotlight feed, joining LinkedIn, Substack, and TikTok in addressing the proliferation of low-quality AI slop on social media p…
Developer mvanhorn released Last 30 Days (Skill), an AI agent-led search engine that aggregates and scores content from Reddit, X, YouTube, TikTok, Hacker News, GitHub, arXiv, Techmeme, and Polymarket…
Four families filed a lawsuit Thursday in Delaware Superior Court against Meta, TikTok, Snapchat, and YouTube, alleging the platforms' addictive algorithms contributed to the suicides of four teenager…
Oracle Corp. reported $638 billion in remaining performance obligations for fiscal 2026, but S&P Global Ratings estimates OpenAI represents roughly half of that backlog, with a reported $300 billion c…
Intuit's online assessment for software and AI engineer candidates includes three questions covering coding, SQL, and Bash scripting. The coding problem involves counting valid assignments for arrays …
Laid-off US workers are increasingly turning to TikTok and YouTube content creation as a precarious alternative to traditional jobs, with US employers adding only 57,000 non-farm jobs in June 2026 and…
ByteDance's AI video app Seedance is partnering with its education app Gauth to launch 'AI Course' on August 4, featuring AI-generated animated lessons for students. Gauth, which has 86 million monthl…
StreamTek's Tim Siglin reports that cloud production tools now enable simultaneous landscape and portrait live streaming, allowing creators to meet audiences on any device without manual re-orientatio…
A couple visiting a Van Gogh exhibit in Ohio encountered an AI-powered interactive version of the painter that could only say "Hello," failing to answer basic questions. The TikTok clip posted by user…
LinkedIn has added a button allowing users to report posts as 'AI slop,' which hides the content and provides feedback to improve the feed, chief product officer Hari Srinivasan announced Thursday. Th…
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 …
ByteDance, the company behind TikTok, now generates about $4bn annually from artificial intelligence, the largest figure any Chinese firm has publicly claimed, according to the South China Morning Pos…
Tradeweb CEO Billy Hult told Yahoo Finance that AI agents are revolutionizing Wall Street bond trading, while Pacsun CEO Brieane Olson explained how community co-creation and viral TikToks fueled the …