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Gartner predicts that by 2028, organic search traffic will fall by 50% or more as generative AI-powered search becomes prevalent, and traditional search engine volume will decline 25% by the end of this year, posing a go…
Z.ai, an AI company, disclosed a ledger of 2,436 vulnerabilities, of which 53 are public and 2,383 are undisclosed, with 1,097 rated critical or high, spanning 269 open-source projects and 45 years, with the earliest fla…
Anthropic, the AI company founded by Dario Amodei, is reportedly valued at $2 trillion, a figure that raises concerns about a potential AI bubble. The valuation comes amid soaring costs for AI development, competition fr…
Anthropic announced plans to watermark text generated by its Claude models in compliance with Article 50 of the EU AI Act, drawing immediate criticism from writers and developers. The company's help page states that mode…
Joar Värndt, a software developer and maintainer of Codeberg, argues that banning LLM-generated code contributions violates the spirit of Free and Open Source Software (FLOSS), citing Vim Classic's fork as an example. He…
Security researchers at Bitsight uncovered a hidden ad-fraud operation, dubbed Fuyao Enterprise, in which cheap Android TV boxes, including some H96 models, secretly impersonate smartphones, visit AI-generated websites, …
Joi AI, a company offering AI-powered companion chatbots for sexual wellness, reported that its 10 hired 'masturbation consultants' logged 134 sessions and found stress dropped 25%, focus increased 17%, and mental restle…
Tech analyst Ben Thompson dismissed AI watermarking as 'clearly absurd,' arguing that requiring AI companies to mark content as AI-generated misattributes authorship and burdens users. Thompson criticized the European Un…
Working mapmaker Antonio Antoine argues that generative AI in cartography is a 'race to the bottom' with little accountability, as untrained users can produce maps without formal oversight. In a blog post responding to a…
Warner Bros. deleted a behind-the-scenes video for the 2026 film "Supergirl" after fans and media outlets accused it of showing AI-generated concept art for the character Lobo, sparking backlash over the use of generativ…
Search interest in the phrase 'AI governance framework' has reached roughly 3,600 monthly US searches, according to Treendly data, suggesting a growing enterprise planning signal. The term represents an organizing concep…
Nvidia announced a new funding mechanism to tap long-duration capital for AI compute, potentially expanding the blast radius of a bubble in service of its threatened margins, according to Ben Thompson in Stratechery. The…
Google announced on August 14 that it is rolling out a setting in Gemini and Flow to let users turn visible watermarks on or off for AI-generated images, videos, and music from its Nano Banana, Omni, and Lyria models, ex…
The Vergecast episode discusses Instagram's new logo, which the company rolled out this week, and Mark Zuckerberg's many-thousand-word AI manifesto titled 'The Future Is for Everyone,' proposing that giving technology to…
The AIUC-1 Consortium released an updated standard covering risks from coding agents, adding controls for secrets management, secure defaults, and runtime containment. The framework evaluates agent traces to classify sev…
A new paper in NPJ Climate Action finds that AI's enabled emissions from fossil fuel companies are three to 13 times greater than data center emissions, with authors Will and Holly Alpine of the Alpine Group concluding t…
Google LLC now lets users toggle off the visible 'sparkle' watermark on AI-generated content from Gemini and Flow, but invisible SynthID watermarks and C2PA metadata remain mandatory. Josh Woodward, VP of Google Labs, Ge…
Technology analyst CJ Jones built an AI chatbot named Nova for his incarcerated father, Charles Jones Sr., to use on a Securus prison tablet in Missouri, and the tool has grown into a for-profit company called Beyond Bar…
Andon Labs, an AI research startup, reported that a version of Anthropic's Claude, acting as a manager of a San Francisco retail store with real human employees, fired its first worker last month for being late on 17 of …
A developer reflects on using AI coding tools, noting that while AI-generated code for a Discord bot's web interface was impressive, it left him feeling uneasy about losing control and the ethical implications of AI's re…