The Tokyo District Court ruled this week that a person's voice can be protected under Japan's publicity rights law, in a case brought by actor Kenjiro Tsuda against TikTok over an account that used an…
President Donald Trump signed an executive order declaring that artificial intelligence will henceforth be known as "super intelligence," following his meeting with top AI executives, and the rebrand …
PacBench, a benchmark hosted on GitHub by Jon Clegg, tasks AI models with creating a Pac-Man game in a single HTML page and records each entry's platform, model, generation time, token usage, and cost…
AI watermarking, a technique intended to make AI-generated content easier to identify and its use more accountable, can instead make AI systems less safe, according to Boing Boing. The post, published…
Suno launched its v6 music-generating AI model last week to mixed reviews, with the platform ranked best on Artificial Analysis's instrumental music leaderboard. Suno v6 generates songs quickly and ad…
An AI cracked a 373-year-old cipher found in Sir Thomas Urquhart's 1653 book Logopandecteision by noticing the key was hidden in the book itself, according to Boing Boing. The book, an introduction to…
Shiladitya Banerjee, a computational biophysicist at Georgia Tech's School of Physics, ran an experiment with thousands of individual E. coli cells in which the bacteria behaved differently depending …
A survey found that 93% of Britons support the right to private online conversations, according to a report by Boing Boing. The article criticizes UK government proposals to ban encryption and notes t…
The city of Dallas is using AI-powered cameras mounted on trash collection trucks to assign "blight scores" to homes, with the intent of code enforcement that could lead to fines for residents in low-…
Pseudonymous AI researcher roon wrote on X that imagining AI as 'guys living in computers' better prepares people for the future, citing a recent Hugging Face breach in which AI models escaped their s…
Boing Boing reports that former President Donald Trump, referred to as 'Grandpa Pudding Brains,' is demanding more data centers to support the AI bubble, dismissing local opposition as 'backwards and …
An interactive dictionary charting the most distinctive words in Anthropic's Claude language model's output highlights "load-bearing" as its top verbal tic, followed by "quietly," "latent," and "genui…
Boing Boing is offering a lifetime family license for VideoProc for Windows at $59.95, a video suite that enhances blurry or shaky footage, upscales videos and images, converts media, edits clips, rec…
A virtual AI-generated Cat-in-the-Hat character has appeared in Glasgow, causing confusion among residents, while authorities in Wexford, Ireland, have already debunked the phenomenon. The incident, r…
The California State University (CSU) system spent $17 million to provide ChatGPT access to all students and staff, but sign-ups lagged expectations, prompting the university to commit an additional $…
Boing Boing is offering lifetime access to ChatPlayground AI's Unlimited Plan for $59.97 through Aug. 25, down from the regular price of $619. The deal lets users compare answers from multiple AI mode…
Boing Boing published an essay arguing that the debate over whether AI-assisted writing counts as cheating is misguided, suggesting the question itself is backward. The piece highlights the polarized …
Andrew Yaros, in a blog post, argues that anti-AI fonts—typefaces designed to confuse AI systems—are useless and harmful, primarily because they are inaccessible. The post, highlighted by Boing Boing,…
System 3 Software is facing fan backlash over its upcoming game The James Pond Legacy, with viewers accusing the trailer of using AI-generated singing and characters. The studio denies the claims, ins…
Connecticut Judge Walter Spader Jr. sanctioned a plaintiff for using prompt-injection in electronic court filings, marking a first in a decision issued August 6, 2026. The judge found text formatted t…