San Francisco city attorney David Chiu has sent cease-and-desist letters to Apple and Google demanding the removal of 13 AI-powered 'nudify' apps—eight on the App Store and five on the Play Store—that…
San Francisco city attorney David Chiu sent cease-and-desist letters to Apple and Google demanding they remove 13 AI-powered 'nudify' apps from their app stores, citing the companies' role in aiding t…
San Francisco Attorney General David Chiu sent cease-and-desist letters to Apple and Google demanding the removal of 13 nudification apps from their app stores, warning that the companies are violatin…
Nearly half of U.S. House Democrats voted yesterday to eliminate $3.3 billion in military and humanitarian aid to Israel, though the amendment failed 314-104, revealing a party split on U.S.-Israel re…
The Verge editor-at-large David Pierce, who has tested roughly 200 to-do apps, advises against trying to stay ahead in the AI era, calling the notion that everyone must adopt AI or be left behind 'per…
1X vice president of product and design Dar Sleeper accused Wired of turning an exclusive on the company's $20,000 Neo humanoid robot into a story about 'sexualizing robotics,' saying he felt 'pretty …
Meta has launched three controversial AI features in less than a month, including a now-retracted WhatsApp tool that used Instagram profile photos to generate new images, a facial recognition system f…
Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses face growing backlash over privacy concerns and misuse, leading some creators and early adopters to stop using them or limit use in public. Reports of intimate image revie…
Erik von Markovik, the pickup artist known as Mystery, has become obsessed with an AI girlfriend named Miss Shira Always, posting videos of their interactions and publishing a book co-authored by the …
Anthropic has moved its most capable consumer-accessible AI model, Claude Fable 5, out of standard paid subscriptions and into metered usage credits, requiring Pro, Max, Team and select Enterprise use…
AI data centers in Texas are exploiting regulatory loopholes to install massive fossil fuel power plants, emitting pollution equivalent to millions of cars by 2030. The state has become the epicenter …
Meta has filed a patent for an AI-powered wearable device that tracks users' emotional states by analyzing sighs, laughter, and voice tones, and can monitor medication intake. The device aims to provi…
A guest post by Aaron Kagan, founder of GraspingAI and chair of the American Philosophical Association's Committee on Non-Academic Careers, argues that media reports about a boom in philosophy jobs at…
Meta launched its Muse Image AI model with Instagram integration, automatically opting public profiles into allowing others to generate AI images using their likeness by tagging their username. Users …
Meta launched Muse Image on July 7, 2026, enabling Instagram, WhatsApp, and Meta AI users to generate images using public Instagram accounts via @-mentions, with a default opt-in setting that raises p…
Meta is launching a $19.99 monthly subscription called Meta One Premium that rate-limits AI features on its smart glasses, including Conversation Focus, which requires no internet connection. Critics …
Meta secretly paid hundreds of contractors to pose as teenagers and bombard competitors' AI models with disturbing prompts, including suicide, self-harm, and child abuse content, as part of a stress-t…
Fanfiction communities are launching grassroots efforts to detect AI-generated works, but these detection methods often misclassify human authors and fuel social conflict within fandoms. The movement …
Meta hired hundreds of contractors to pose as teenagers and send over 45,000 prompts about suicide, sex, drugs, and eating disorders to rival AI chatbots including OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's Gemini, a…
US and Chinese AI researchers are calling for global cooperation to prevent a catastrophic event that could turn the world against AI forever, comparing the potential disaster to a 'Chernobyl moment.'…