Google's electricity demand surged 37% year-over-year and greenhouse gas emissions rose 18% in 2024, driven by its aggressive AI infrastructure buildout, according to the company's latest environmenta…
Google reported an all-time high in search queries, but referral traffic to publishers is declining sharply, with expectations of a 40% drop in the next three years. AI search engines rely on retrieva…
Tyler Cowen predicts that declining fertility rates and the rise of AI will transform social interactions, making public spaces emptier and prompting humans to invest more in appearance and charisma t…
Apple responded to a class action lawsuit filed by three YouTube channels—h3h3Productions, MrShortGame Golf, and Golfholics—arguing that it lawfully accessed publicly available videos under the DMCA a…
Darren Aronofsky's AI-generated video series 'On This Day…1776' has become a surreal, grotesque blend of technical ambition and patriotism, drawing backlash for its AI slop and erratic weekly schedule…
OpenMontage, an open-source agentic video production system with 12 pipelines and 52 tools, has surpassed 31,000 stars on GitHub. The system automates the entire video creation workflow from script to…
Google offers lesser-known account settings that users can adjust to enhance privacy and convenience, including setting home and work addresses, editing public profile information, and designating rec…
Google's annual electricity consumption rose 37% in 2025, the largest increase in company history, driven by AI data center buildout. The tech giant reduced operational carbon emissions by 2% through …
Companies are scrambling to reduce AI spending as providers shift to per-token pricing, with some using tools to make LLMs communicate like cavemen. Meanwhile, entirely fake AI-generated flowers are f…
A developer released cardiag, an open-source audio-ML pipeline that uses Contrastive Language-Audio Pretraining (CLAP) to classify mechanical faults from phone recordings. The tool achieves 0.79 AUROC…
Google has been named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms for the third consecutive year, following its Google Cloud Next 2026 event. The reco…
YouTube displays a cookie consent notice for a page titled 'Modern AI: Foundations, Learning, and Systems – Videos', offering options to accept or reject cookies for personalized content and ads.…
Habitual publisher traffic is collapsing as AI bot traffic surged 187% in 2025 while human traffic grew only 3.1%, eroding the click-based value exchange. Direct traffic to major publishers fell 19.9%…
A new video tutorial demonstrates how to save a Claude AI chat as a PDF, providing step-by-step instructions for users. The guide aims to help users preserve their conversations with the AI assistant …
Disney appointed a new CEO, YouTube began pitching creator show sponsorships, and Nielsen updated its measurement methodology in the first half of 2026, while Netflix did not acquire Warner Bros. Disc…
Philliant.com remains the primary home for writing, while the YouTube channel serves as a companion space for discussing posts and adding spoken context. The long-form project 'AI-Assisted Data Engine…
YouTube launched Ask Studio, an AI-powered creative partner for creators, offering personalized recommendations based on channel data while ensuring privacy and security. The tool helps overcome creat…
The internet's reliability as a repository of knowledge is threatened by a flood of disinformation and AI-generated content, known as AI slop, which makes it increasingly difficult to find accurate in…
Purdue researchers tested 24 deepfake detection systems and found commercial tools generally performed better as AI identity fraud raises new risks for crypto KYC. The study found Incode's DeepSight a…
Grant Sanderson, creator of 3Blue1Brown, discussed the rapid progress of AI in mathematics and its implications for other fields in a podcast interview. He explored whether AI discoveries constitute A…