A24 Films succumbs to the AI darkside
A24 Films has accepted a $75 million investment from Google to partner on developing new AI-powered filmmaking tools, marking a significant shift for the indie studio known for its artistic horror and…
A24 Films has accepted a $75 million investment from Google to partner on developing new AI-powered filmmaking tools, marking a significant shift for the indie studio known for its artistic horror and…
Scammers are using deepfake AI to impersonate people in video calls, making it harder to detect fraud. The technology enables realistic fake identities, posing a growing threat to personal and financi…
REI shared an Instagram ad for a Van Rysel bike using an AI-generated image that featured handlebars protruding from the seat, drawing mockery for failing to depict a realistic bicycle.…
Researchers at Spain's University of Zaragoza scanned the brains of 100 young adults and found that right-wing authoritarians have reduced grey matter in the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex, a region li…
Meta laid off thousands of workers, began monitoring employee computers, and assigned staff to train AI that could replace them, while CTO Andrew Bosworth admitted morale is at an all-time low. The co…
ChatOn Premium offers a 5-year subscription for $99.99, providing access to multiple AI models including GPT, Claude, and Gemini, compared to ChatGPT Plus at $240 per year. The deal costs less than $2…
Consulting firm KPMG withdrew a report on Agentic AI after AI detection company GPTZero found it contained AI-generated fabrications and mangled citations. The report, titled 'Total Experience: Redefi…
A modified Unitree G1 humanoid robot named Pemba is attempting to summit Mount Everest, testing the limits of bipedal robots on uneven terrain despite their demonstrated abilities in kung fu and parko…
CrankGPT is a fully offline AI box powered by a hand crank, running speech recognition, a small language model, and text-to-speech locally on a single-board computer without battery or internet. It al…
A Derbyshire Constabulary officer is under criminal investigation for allegedly using artificial intelligence to fabricate evidence, in what is believed to be the first case of its kind in Britain. Th…
Boing Boing is offering a lifetime subscription to VibeFarm AI Prompt Composition Workspace for $29.99 (MSRP $179) through June 14 with code SAVE25. The tool helps users craft better prompts for AI mo…
1min.AI is offering a lifetime Advanced Business Plan for $59.97, down from $540, through June 14. The deal bundles access to GPT, Claude, and Gemini into a single dashboard with no subscription fees.…
Undetectable Humanizer Basic, a tool that rewrites AI-generated text to sound human, is available for $39.99 (reg. $1,080) through June 28 as part of Deal Days, offering lifetime access with no subscr…
Craig Brittain, a former Arizona Senate candidate, alleged in a Threads post that an FBI agent confronted him while he was peacefully protesting ICE at Delaney Hall in Newark, and the agent refused to…
The Claude AI Professional E-Degree is available for $19.99 (down from $49) through June 14, offering hands-on training in prompting, automation, integrations, and workflows. The course aims to help u…
In 1950, Claude Shannon used his wife as a human language model to test the limits of text compression, demonstrating that prediction and compression are mathematically equivalent. The experiment, now…
Meta has scaled back its employee keystroke and mouse-click tracking program after worker backlash, now allowing staff to pause data collection for up to 30 minutes or request full exemptions. The ret…
A Stanford Law study found that AI tutors outperformed law professors in 75% of blind grading matchups on contract law questions. Sixteen professors wrote answers to 40 questions, then graded response…
Amazon launched an AI feature in its app Wednesday that generates fake product images in real-time as users type search terms. The tool creates images of nonexistent items rather than displaying actua…
ChatPlayground AI is offering a lifetime subscription for $59.97, down from $619, through June 14, allowing users to compare and access multiple AI models including ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini in a si…