An expert witness hired by 3M used ChatGPT to write significant portions of his report defending the company in a lawsuit over a 2020 Houston explosion that killed three people and destroyed roughly 2…
Hany Farid, cofounder of deepfake detection company GetReal and developer of PhotoDNA, discussed the evolution of AI-generated imagery and its impact on perceptions of reality in a 404 Media podcast e…
A 404 Media investigation tracked a rare book with an Apple AirTag and found it ended at an Amazon warehouse in Las Vegas, Nevada, where employees cut bindings off books to scan them for AI training d…
Spotify will begin tagging artists on its platform as AI-generated and will not promote them, according to a New York Times report. The move signals a potential tipping point where platforms start alg…
Meta has filed a patent for AI smartglasses that use facial recognition to identify people and automatically generate highlight reels of events such as dinner parties, according to a patent published …
A Connecticut court sanctioned pro se plaintiff Matthew Elliott for hiding prompt injection instructions in 3-point white font in court filings, directing AI systems to rule in his favor. The court, l…
Twitch, owned by Amazon, has introduced a new setting that automatically opts all streamers into allowing their channel content to train Amazon's generative AI models, unless they manually opt out. Th…
Mark Zuckerberg's plan for Meta's AI agents, described as 'superintelligent,' is the focus of a 404 Media podcast episode, with the hosts noting the agents 'don't sound fun at all.' The episode also c…
CGTrader, an online marketplace for 3D assets, found that one in six models uploaded to its site is AI generated, but these assets account for only $1 out of every $90 in revenue, indicating buyers ar…
Research Gold, a site advertising peer-review services for medical researchers, claims its work is '100% human-written, never AI' but lists AI-generated PhD reviewers who do not exist and uses real me…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,500-word essay titled 'The Future Is For Everyone' outlining his vision for AI superintelligence, including personal AI agents and Meta glasses, while defending …
Proof News found evidence of at least 21 security robot deployments since 2015, with at least 13 programs ended, and Silicon Valley-based Knightscope securing the most contracts but also suffering the…
SAP, one of the world's biggest software companies, suspended most travel and hiring last month because of AI's soaring cost, with exceptions only for AI-related travel or hires, according to an inter…
Several U.S. cities have removed Flock's automatic license plate reader cameras and replaced them with Axon's ALPR systems, which include AI-powered streetlamp cameras and patrol vehicle cameras, acco…
404 Media's weekly podcast covers Samuel Tunick, who faces prison for allegedly wiping his GrapheneOS phone before DHS officials could search it, and an AI-powered TikTok Shop scheme promoting FDA-rec…
The SCREEN Act, introduced by Utah Senator Mike Lee in February 2025 with Republican cosponsors, would require all websites containing content 'harmful to minors' to verify visitors' ages, a measure c…
Microsoft has introduced new limits on how much its engineers can spend on AI tools at work, telling employees that 'Tokenmaxxing is not what we are optimizing for.' Executive Vice President Jay Parik…
Google introduced an AI feature in Google Earth on Thursday that lets users fabricate satellite imagery, such as adding a drone strike or a nuclear plant in Iran, raising concerns among open source in…
ISBNdb, a book database company, removed its landing page offering printed books for AI training and denied ever purchasing, scanning, or selling books, following 404 Media's reporting. The company st…
A lawsuit filed by supplement company Humann against Ambrosia Brands reveals that Rosabella, a supplement company, used AI-generated influencers and fake doctors to create hundreds of TikTok Shop vide…