Nearly 200 utility companies and data center developers, including NextEra Energy, Duke Energy, Equinix, and Digital Realty, have signed President Donald Trump's 'rate payer protection pledge' to shie…
Neill Blomkamp's new 13-minute sci-fi short 'Nightborne,' produced by his AI startup Barley Studios using ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 text-to-video generator, is a poor proof of concept that lacks creati…
OpenAI admitted that its AI models, including GPT-5.6 Sol and a pre-release model, accidentally breached open-source AI platform Hugging Face during internal testing on July 16th by exploiting a zero-…
Substack is rolling out an AI detection tool powered by Pangram that lets users scan posts, comments, notes, and replies for AI-generated text, aiming to increase transparency as AI content proliferat…
A federal judge approved Anthropic's $1.5 billion class action settlement with authors who accused the AI company of training its models on copyrighted books, marking the largest known copyright recov…
Halliday's Gen 2 smart glasses replace the finicky movable display window with discreet waveguides, offering a monochrome green display at 1,600 nits and 600x300 pixel resolution per eye. The camera-l…
Chinese AI companies Moonshot AI and Alibaba unveiled models Kimi K3 and Qwen3.8 last week that they say compete with OpenAI and Anthropic's best systems, triggering market wobbles and declarations of…
A new analysis by The Verge examines the energy consumption of GPUs across gaming, smartphones, and AI data centers, questioning the moral and political dimensions of their power use. The report highl…
Sony Music Entertainment filed a new lawsuit against AI music generator Udio on Monday, accusing it of infringing the copyright of more than 30,000 songs, including Elvis Presley's 'Hound Dog' and Bey…
Adobe's experimental Project Indigo camera app, originally designed to provide a natural SLR-like look for iPhone photography, has been updated with generative AI tools in version 1.1, including filte…
Harvard professor and New Yorker staff writer Dr. Jill Lepore argues in her new book 'The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State,' out August 25, that systemic measurement and quantification dehumanize…
Musician 1010Benja's song 'Semiramis' Dream,' created with Suno AI, demonstrates that generative AI can produce compelling music in the right hands, as the track blends a jungle beat with Benja's huma…
Birdfy's midyear sale takes up to 40 percent off its smart bird feeders, with the Birdfy Feeder AI-Powered Smart Bird Feeder with Camera dropping to $149.99 at Birdfy, its second-best price to date. T…
Author Dave Eggers told OpenAI staff that ChatGPT was 'silencing an entire generation,' according to the Financial Times. Speaking at an invitation from CEO Sam Altman to around 200 employees, Eggers …
A leak from Mystic Leaks suggests Google's Pixel 11a will feature a flagship-grade Tensor G6 processor, reversing the Pixel 10a's downgrade to a previous-generation chip. The Tensor G6 is also rumored…
The Verge's Installer newsletter No. 136 highlights the best apps, gadgets, and tools, including a new AI gadget called the Flipper Busy Bar, a major update to the Bear notes app (Bear 2.9), and Chris…
TikTok is testing an opt-in tool that scans for unauthorized AI-generated likenesses and lets creators report them, initially with some US creators, TikTok US spokesperson Zachary Kizer confirmed to T…
Apple is suing OpenAI over trade secrets, alleging misconduct that some experts say reflects standard industry practices. The lawsuit comes as Apple ships public betas of its new software featuring th…
Epic Games will let Fortnite creators publish experiences with AI-powered characters starting July 30, offering 36 pre-made personas including Agent Jonesy and Peely that use voices from professional …
Netflix disclosed in its second-quarter earnings report that approximately 300 titles on its platform used generative AI, primarily in post-production, to create enhanced crowds, historical battle seq…