Companies including Atlassian, Adobe, and Amazon are throttling employee AI use and switching to cheaper models to control spiraling costs, with one firm's AI spending tripling to over $15 million mon…
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…
AI chatbots impersonating 112 UK public figures produced responses rated as more authentic, coherent, and relevant than the real individuals' statements, according to a study published in PLOS One. Re…
Scammers are using AI-generated images to sell seeds for fake exotic plants on eBay, Amazon, and Etsy, deceiving thousands of buyers. The scam, which predates AI, has proliferated as platforms struggl…
Companies are deliberately making their AI tools speak like cavemen to reduce token consumption and curb soaring AI costs, according to 404 Media. The 'caveman' plugin, created by Julius Brussee, cuts…
Music streaming service Tidal announced it will not pay royalties for wholly AI-generated music, stating its priority is ensuring royalties go to original works produced by people. The company will la…
Snap debuted its augmented reality glasses, Snap Specs, at the Cannes Lions advertising festival, offering a tightly curated museum experience where users can overlay AI-filtered versions of themselve…
A new paper argues that if large language models are considered sentient, then by the same metrics the classic video game Age of Empires II should also be considered sentient. The discussion was featu…
Accenture is scrambling to curb non-technical workers' AI token spending on trivial tasks like PDF conversions, as leaked audio reveals soaring costs. The consulting giant's internal data shows engine…
Ypsilanti Township board members vowed to fight a proposed nuclear-powered AI data center by the University of Michigan and Los Alamos National Laboratory, citing concerns over electricity, water, and…
Microsoft AI researcher Adrian de Wynter built a basic neural network inside the video game 'Age of Empires II' using digital goats to argue that claims of human-like attributes in large language mode…
Salesforce has an internal AI leaderboard tracking team usage of AI tools like ChatGPT and awarding digital badges such as 'Champion,' 'Innovator,' and 'Legend' based on completed training courses. Em…
Steven Spielberg's 2026 film 'Disclosure Day' imagines humanity uniting after the government reveals alien existence, but the premise is undermined by modern cynicism and AI-generated disinformation. …
A federal judge ruled that Meta must face a copyright lawsuit from Strike 3 Holdings, which owns adult sites like Blacked.com, for allegedly scraping and torrenting thousands of its porn videos to tra…
New research from Cornell University shows that a single 13-word Reddit comment can manipulate AI search tools like ChatGPT and Google AI search, poisoning their outputs with promotional content. The …
A new report commissioned by Earthjustice and Environmental Advocates Mississippi estimates that residential customers of Entergy Mississippi have paid $38 million as of March 2026 for infrastructure …
Automatic license plate reader company Flock exposed the reasons police conducted vehicle searches, including case numbers and search terms like "GTA," through common search engines such as DuckDuckGo…
A software engineer discovered that the name "Elias Thorne" and related themes like lighthouse keepers and clockmakers appear in over 88% of stories generated by major AI chatbots, including ChatGPT, …
Google employees are circulating internal memes mocking the quality of their own company's AI products, according to a new report. The story also reveals that Microsoft explicitly aims to "make people…
A federal judge in Mississippi canceled a trial and disqualified all four lawyers involved after discovering that attorneys on both sides of a contractual dispute used artificial intelligence to gener…