Boing Boing is promoting a lifetime bundle of Luminar Neo, an AI-powered photo editor, now priced at $79.99, down from $332, which includes a landscape editing video course, LUTs, and presets. The bun…
Microsoft Windows 11 Pro is on sale for $11.23, down from $199, at Boing Boing's store. The operating system includes BitLocker, Hyper-V, Windows Sandbox, Azure AD, and Copilot. The deal is available …
PC and console prices continue to rise, with an HP Victus 15.6 gaming laptop that cost $600 last year now priced at $955 at Best Buy, according to Boing Boing. The price surge is driven by AI datacent…
A report that China has begun mass-producing specialty chips for AI triggered a selloff that erased $1 trillion in market value from other chip manufacturers, according to the Guardian. The same week,…
Boy George's AI-generated pro-Israel reggae song was a promotional stunt for his role as Herod in the musical Jesus Christ Superstar, according to Paste Magazine. The singer has since withdrawn from t…
A debut novel's $2.4 million licensing deal with Minotaur/Macmillan was canceled after questions arose over whether it was written by AI, according to Deadline. The deal unraveled after "questions wer…
Voibe AI Voice Dictation, priced at $79.99 (regularly $199), offers Mac users offline voice-to-text with app-wide cursor support, Apple Silicon optimization, and ongoing updates, as promoted by Boing …
Boing Boing is offering the Claude AI Professional E-Degree, a bundle of four courses with 100+ lectures and real-world projects, for $13.99 using code COURSE30 through August 2, down from its regular…
A Vermont pharmacy chain's AI assistant named "Burt" after founder Burt Kinney has caused delays, incorrect information, and privacy concerns, including excessive calls, wrong dosages, and inappropria…
A U.S. State Department delegation used an AI-generated map of Africa that mislabeled every country during a presentation at the AIDS 2026 conference in Rio de Janeiro, drawing widespread ridicule fro…
The Salamanca City Central School District in New York has paused plans to install an AI-equipped humanoid robot teacher named "Sally" this fall after public outrage over privacy, cost, and concerns t…
FirstResume offers a lifetime subscription for $39.99 (regularly $899) that automates job searches by tailoring resumes, writing cover letters, prepping interviews, researching companies, and tracking…
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is broadening its ban on imported robotics, including Roombas, robot mowers, and delivery bots, from overseas being sold in the United States, according to …
AI companies are buying old books, scanning them, and destroying the physical copies to obtain training data free of AI-generated content, according to a report by 404 Media. The program is facilitate…
A cartoonist has filed a lawsuit against an AI meme generator that monetizes his work without permission, alleging copyright infringement. The case highlights the legal boundary between free online me…
AMD's latest entry-level video card ships with only 4GB of VRAM, marking the first modern GPU to launch with so little memory, according to William Judd of Digital Foundry. The memory cut reflects a w…
The story of Clever Hans, a horse in early 1900s Germany who appeared to solve math problems but was actually responding to subtle cues from his trainer, continues to haunt AI research as a cautionary…
Prompting Systems is offering a lifetime subscription to its prompt optimization tool for $29.99, down from $360, to help users improve interactions with AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude. The deal, av…
Bill Oliver, a Progressive Conservative Party legislator in New Brunswick, Canada, delivered a speech last week that was generated by artificial intelligence, including reading the AI prompt aloud. Th…
Florida gubernatorial candidate Byron Donalds has attracted more than $5 million in support from a pro-AI super PAC, but is losing Republican voters opposed to AI data centers in their communities. He…