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Hany Farid, cofounder of deepfake detection company GetReal and developer of PhotoDNA, discussed the evolution of AI-generated imagery and its impact on perceptions of reality in a 404 Media podcast episode. Farid, whose…
AI knowledge graphs are curated through three stages—pre-training data filtering, SFT/RLHF, and RAG—to align models with regional perspectives, according to a technical guide for developers. The tradeoff between neutrali…
Meta Platforms Inc. has filed a patent for smart glasses technology that uses facial recognition to identify people in recorded videos and automatically generate highlight clips labeled with who is in the frame and their…
A Yahoo Finance report finds that consumer opposition to AI data centers is growing, with critics calling it a 'hot Luddite summer' as communities push back against the infrastructure's energy and water demands. Senior R…
Dan Moren, a technology writer, argues in a August 17, 2026 opinion piece that large language models (LLMs) are not actually writing, but merely generating text, and therefore Anthropic's AI watermarking scheme is not a …
A user is seeking practical advice on protecting privacy during video calls from AI transcription, citing tools like Fawkes, Glaze, Nightshade, VoiceBlock, and ASRJam, and asking about the legal weight of non-consent not…
Google illegally retains customer data from its AI Studio platform, according to a user who demonstrated that pressing the delete button only moves a JSON launcher file to Google Drive trash, while the backend servers co…
The Motion Picture Association and ByteDance announced a memorandum of understanding to protect film and TV intellectual property across ByteDance's AI video and image generators Seedance and Seedream, months after the M…
Google has open-sourced a C++ library for validating digital media, aimed at developers addressing content provenance amid a flood of AI-generated content. The library, announced on Aug 17, 2026, provides tools to verify…
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) published a warning notice on August 17 reminding solicitors and law firms that they remain responsible for AI-assisted work, highlighting risks of false legal material and confi…
Apple should avoid Anthropic's approach to watermarking AI-generated text, which complies with an EU initiative by adding a watermark to Claude's output in a way that is considered perverse. The author, a professional wr…
Working with AI agents feels like leadership, not coding, according to a note by an unnamed author, which clarifies that leadership sets direction and creates alignment, while supervision and management handle task-level…
Sainsbury's has paused the use of AI face scanning in one of its stores after a customer, Matt Arnold, 46, was wrongly identified as a shoplifter and ejected, an incident he described as 'humiliating'. The supermarket ch…
A 404 Media investigation tracked a rare book with an Apple AirTag and found it ended at an Amazon warehouse in Las Vegas, Nevada, where employees cut bindings off books to scan them for AI training data. Amazon confirme…
An AI manager in San Francisco fired a human employee for being late 17 times, marking a notable instance of AI-driven personnel decisions. The termination was carried out by the AI system, which had been tasked with mon…
Anthony Spadaro, a Forbes Councils member, argues that developers of agentic AI systems in high-stakes industries should adopt safety principles from the nuclear industry, starting with defining what the agent can never …
Video game lawyer Haley MacLean of Voyer Law says anti-generative-AI clauses are now commonplace in game development contracts, with publishers adding 'no gen AI' clauses to marketing, porting, and QA agreements in respo…
A new proposed test for AI consciousness suggests training a model on a dataset scrubbed of all references to consciousness to see if it can independently initiate discussion about the topic, arguing that consciousness m…
Geoffrey Hinton, the British computer scientist known as the 'Godfather of AI,' warned that Big Tech is investing roughly a trillion dollars in AI systems designed to 'do the work of workers much cheaper,' and that this …
NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang used his first post on X on July 24, 2026, to amplify an industry letter titled 'Open Weights and American AI Leadership,' arguing that 'the world needs both frontier closed models and…