X's Safety team identified a bot farm of approximately 200,000 fake Chinese accounts engaged in influence operations, including 200 accounts posting content that could manipulate debate about American…
Stephen Coates, Twitter's former first trademark counsel, launched Twitter.now on August 27th, a web app from his company Operation Bluebird that aims to make content moderation a user setting, with a…
A Clemson University researcher found that at least 59 of the Chinese bot accounts X said posted anti-data-center content had zero engagement and were likely deactivated before gaining followers, call…
Omega, a new desktop workspace for cross-platform publishing, enables users to plan campaigns, prepare media sizes, edit captions, schedule posts, and compare analytics from a single interface. The to…
Former Twitter trademark lawyer Stephen Coates launched Twitter.now, a social network that lets users control how much potentially false or harmful content reaches their feeds, with a $20 early-access…
X said Thursday night that roughly 200 accounts from a suspected Chinese bot farm have tried to influence Americans to oppose AI data centers on social media, amplifying real U.S. anger over the infra…
Elon Musk's X reported Thursday that it found 200 accounts posting in a manner that could manipulate debate about American AI and energy policy, suggesting a China-backed plot to influence Americans a…
X's Safety team identified a bot farm of approximately 200,000 suspected Chinese inauthentic accounts, with about 200 targeting U.S. sentiment on AI data centers and energy policy, using AI-generated …
X, formerly Twitter, identified a bot farm of approximately 200,000 inauthentic Chinese accounts involved in influence operations, with 200 accounts posting content that could manipulate the U.S. deba…
A class-action lawsuit filed on 26 August 2026 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California accuses Elon Musk's xAI of training its Grok image generation models on confirmed chil…
Meta Platforms Inc. disrupted an Iran-linked network that used AI-generated personas to impersonate Americans across Facebook and Instagram, removing 294 Instagram accounts, 8 Facebook accounts, and 2…
Nitter, an open-source alternative front-end for X (formerly Twitter), has received a cease and desist letter from X, according to a post by the Nitter project. The letter demands that Nitter stop usi…
Wisconsin U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R) faces backlash after posting an AI-generated deepfake video of Democratic challenger Rebecca Cooke on X, which critics say violates the spirit of a 2024 state…
State-sponsored actors are shifting from simple botnets to sophisticated AI workflows that generate nuanced, persona-driven propaganda, according to an analysis of influence operations. These workflow…
Google Vice President of Product Robby Stein asked on X what feature users want in AI Mode, prompting responses from SEOs and publishers requesting more links, verifiable citations, and fair compensat…
Elon Musk told Cursor employees during their first all-hands meeting after SpaceX's $60 billion acquisition that artificial intelligence will eventually become uncontrollable, while urging them to hel…
OpenAI banned a cluster of ChatGPT accounts linked to Russia that supported a covert influence campaign promoting the International Burke Institute, a think tank that republished copied academic paper…
Voiced, a new AI-powered content tool, turns a two-minute voice note into seven drafts — three X threads, three LinkedIn posts, and a newsletter draft — in the user's own voice. The tool, available at…
Tech reporter Sam Biddle sparked a viral backlash against AI-generated food imagery after sharing a deli sign featuring shrimp-shaped bagels, with users flooding X with similar sightings of 'AI slop' …
A new term, 'meat proxy,' emerged in 2026 to describe a person who forwards AI-generated text or code without reading or validating it, with the earliest use found in an anonymous March 31, 2026 blog …