Police forces in the UK and Ireland have debunked viral AI-generated images and videos of Dr Seuss' Cat in the Hat character appearing on streets, with South Yorkshire Police confirming they have had …
A substitute teacher in Los Banos, California, Luis DeSantiago, was targeted by students who used AI to create and circulate sexualized images of him, leading him to avoid returning to the district. W…
TikTok has reached an agreement with the U.S. Justice Department to resolve a lawsuit accusing the platform of violating the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) by collecting personal inf…
British and Irish police have confirmed that viral TikTok videos of a 'killer' Cat in the Hat prowling streets are AI-generated hoaxes, after the clips were watched millions of times and sparked fear …
Police forces across the UK and Ireland have debunked a viral AI-generated hoax showing a sinister Cat in the Hat lurking outside homes, confirming the images were created with AI prompts and not real…
Almedia GmbH's Freecash rewards platform ran a deceptive TikTok advertising campaign promising up to $35 an hour to watch videos, without naming Freecash and implying users were hired by TikTok, accor…
An engineer built a personal automation pipeline where an AI agent scouts trending content and logs ideas, but killed it because the chat-based substrate made retrieval and state tracking impossible. …
Google Search Console has introduced platform properties, a new property type that brings search-demand data for social and video content from Instagram, TikTok, X, and YouTube into its Performance an…
TikTok has reached a $400 million settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice, ending a 2024 lawsuit alleging the company violated federal children’s privacy laws. The DOJ said Friday that TikTok w…
AI video production for businesses in 2026 costs between €800 and €30,000 depending on the type of piece, according to a guide that compares AI-generated videos to traditional production. A short ad r…
An Illinois nurse, TikTok user @Chenedyy, says AI is now built into hospital workflows, citing three examples: AI summarization in electronic health records, a primary care provider recording a visit …
ByteDance and the Motion Picture Association have reached a memorandum of understanding focused on output-side copyright governance for ByteDance's Seedance and Seedream AI models, covering products l…
A growing number of Americans oppose data centers due to environmental, cost, and job concerns, but some pro-AI figures, including venture capitalist Garry Tan, claim China is orchestrating a psyop to…
OpenAI began testing ads inside ChatGPT in the United States in February 2026, expanding to eight more markets over the following six months, and on August 24, 2026, ChatGPT Ads launched in 31 Europea…
TikTok is running AI-generated, sexualized and racist ads for Finji's games without the publisher's knowledge or consent, according to Finji CEO Rebekah Saltsman, who said the company has all AI featu…
The developer behind RoasNova, an open-source advertising operations platform, has released the project under the MIT License. The platform connects campaign performance, customer intent, conversion d…
Microsoft's Azure OpenAI service is on track to hit a $10 billion annual run rate, with ByteDance, Adobe, and Perplexity among its major customers. ByteDance once spent nearly $20 million per month, a…
The EU AI Act, formally Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, introduces a risk-based regulatory framework for artificial intelligence, with bans on unacceptable-risk AI, strict requirements for high-risk system…
An a16z partner created a fictional 19-year-old sorority girl named Janie for Bama Rush using ChatGPT and $100 in AI credits, and within a week, the fake account gained 1,300 followers on TikTok witho…
Talecut, an AI-powered video editing tool, converts movies and TV episodes into vertical micro-episodes for platforms like TikTok, Reels, and Shorts, using AI scene analysis to track speakers and gene…