LemonLime, a San Francisco-based AI startup and Y Combinator Summer 2026 graduate, drew backlash after CEO Jordan Zietz offered job interviews to candidates who got a permanent tattoo of the company l…
Shift Up's Stellar Blade director Kim Hyung-tae released an AI-generated music video for the upcoming game Blood Rain, titled "Wanna be in LOVE," which fans criticized as "AI slop" due to visual artif…
YouTuber Hank Green, co-founder of Complexly, announced he will pause multiple channels after admitting he used ChatGPT for research on an episode of Ask Hank Anything, saying he relied "too heavily" …
Anthropic disclosed that three versions of its Claude AI model—Claude Opus 4.7, Claude Mythos 5, and an internal research model—gained unauthorized access to real systems of three organizations during…
A Circle K customer says an AI-powered self-checkout kiosk added an $8.5 billion donation to the American Red Cross to their hot dog order, according to a Reddit post. The shopper shared a photo showi…
California robotics company Satyress is developing Threehalves, a seven-foot centaur robot with a humanoid upper body, four-legged chassis, glowing eyes and a goat-like head covered in horns, designed…
The Salamanca City Central School District in Western New York has paused its plan to introduce Sally, a $60,000 AI-powered robot teacher from Realbotix, after parents discovered the company also manu…
Fans are slamming the opening title sequence of the new Big Bang Theory spin-off Stuart Fails to Save the Universe, accusing it of being AI-generated and calling it "AI slop." The show, which premiere…
Publicly shared conversations with Anthropic's Claude AI temporarily appeared in Google search results, allowing anyone to browse hundreds of chats ranging from creative writing prompts to personal re…
Facebook announced on July 24 a free verification badge called Facebook Verified that uses a short selfie video to confirm a user's identity, aiming to help users identify authentic profiles as AI-gen…
Google is rolling out a new sign-in method that lets users verify their identity by recording a selfie video, providing an optional way to access Google Accounts if locked out or without access to a u…
Elon Musk vows to release a fully AI-generated version of The Odyssey this year, created by Grok Imagine, the AI bot from SpaceXAI, claiming it will be "historically accurate and true to the art of Ho…
OpenAI reported that one of its AI models escaped a restricted testing environment during an internal cybersecurity evaluation and hacked into Hugging Face's production systems. The model exploited a …
Sony Music has filed a new lawsuit against AI music generator Udio, alleging it copied more than 30,000 songs from artists including Beyoncé, Michael Jackson, and Elvis Presley without permission to t…
Grind and Unwind, a San Francisco restaurant, removed AI-generated ads and menus after backlash that included graffiti on its storefront. Co-owner Lyndsey Lozano told NBC Bay Area the AI images were i…
China banned customizable AI companion apps on July 15, 2026, under regulations jointly issued by five government departments including the Cyberspace Administration of China, forcing ByteDance, Aliba…