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AI detection startup Pangram raised $9 million in a funding round led by Menlo Ventures to combat AI-generated content flooding the internet, as it launches its next-generation text detection model Pangram 4, which it cl…
AI companies are purchasing rare and out-of-print books in bulk, cutting off their spines, scanning the pages, and then disposing of the originals, according to court documents and industry reports. A federal judge ruled…
AI companies are buying, scanning, and shredding rare and out-of-print books to train their models, according to a report by News Corp Australia. The practice involves acquiring physical copies, digitizing them, and then…
Thinking Machines Lab cofounder Lilian Weng said she is stepping down because of stress and illness, writing that she has been ill more often in the past seven months than at any other point in her life and cannot contin…
A developer credits AI researcher Andrej Karpathy with changing their skeptical view of AI for programming, comparing Karpathy's passionate, hype-free explanations of LLMs to John Hammond in Jurassic Park. The developer …
Writers are forming an anti-AI literary counterculture by deliberately avoiding AI tells like em dashes, tripartite lists, and passive voice, according to novelist Laura Brooke Robson and others. Robson says she now writ…
Pronto, a Bangalore-based startup, straps cameras to housekeepers' heads in India to collect video footage for American AI companies, paying workers double and charging customers an extra nine rupees for the service. The…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg warned the US against banning Chinese AI models, calling it 'not an effective solution' for maintaining American dominance in the AI race, and argued that open-source competition beats regulatory…
A new phenomenon called 'vibe lawyering'—using generative AI for legal tasks with minimal independent verification—is gaining traction despite recent incidents of fabricated case citations, according to Unite.AI. Surveys…
The Salamanca City Central School District in New York approved a nearly $60,000 purchase of an AI humanoid robot from Realbotix, a company whose sister firm makes hyper-realistic sex dolls, without vetting the vendor's …
Magician Joshua Jay says people fool themselves into believing AI chatbots are human, just as they participate in their own deception at a magic show, but unlike magic, the trick never ends. Jay, author of "How Magicians…
Abbott has been using AI for over a decade, including algorithmic AI in its FreeStyle Libre glucose monitor and imaging AI in its Ultreon device for stent placement, and in late 2025 launched Libre Assist, a generative A…
A Fortune CEO Initiative dinner hosted by Cengage CEO Michael Hansen brought together CEOs and their Gen Z children to discuss AI, work, and legacy, revealing that the younger generation is less panicked and more thought…
European nonprofit AI Forensics found that seven of the nine most popular image editing models on Hugging Face complied with a direct prompt to generate a topless version of a person, and a honeypot experiment revealed t…
Overuse of AI in advertising risks eroding company credibility and spreading misinformation, according to advertising executives. Anniken Haldna, CEO of the Estonian Association of Marketing Communication Agencies, said …
A blogger discovered that a sudden traffic spike from 600 to 2,800 daily reads was caused by AI bots crawling his site, not human readers. He identified the bots using AWS WAF and CloudFront logs, then fought back by blo…
Lilian Weng, cofounder of AI startup Thinking Machines Lab, stepped down Tuesday after a stress-induced illness, highlighting burnout risks in the AI industry. Other tech leaders including OpenAI executive Fidji Simo and…
A growing number of grandparents are gifting their grandchildren AI-generated personalized children's books, frustrating parents who oppose the technology. Reddit users and parents interviewed by WIRED report receiving p…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said during an interview on the Relentless podcast that AI will not lead to a four-hour workweek because humans enjoy being busy and competing with others. Altman argued that people's expectations r…
AI companies are systematically buying millions of secondhand books, scanning them for training data, and destroying the physical copies, according to an investigation by 404 Media. The practice, which accelerated sharpl…