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Scammers are using AI-generated images to sell seeds for exotic flowers that do not exist on platforms like Etsy, eBay, and Amazon, according to reports. The fake listings often feature impossible colors or traits, and b…
Law Roach, Zendaya's stylist, criticized AI-generated images of her wedding dress as 'not good enough' on Good Morning America, confirming the real dress is superior. The AI photos, which circulated in March, falsely dep…
Netflix's upcoming competition show 'Wonka's The Golden Ticket' uses AI from ElevenLabs to re-create the voice of late actor Gene Wilder, with permission from his estate. The unscripted series, premiering Sept. 23, featu…
Venice AI, founded by Erik Voorhees, raised $65 million in Series A funding led by Dragonfly, with Coinbase Ventures and North Island Ventures participating, achieving a $1 billion valuation. The startup offers uncensore…
Cargo thieves are stealing millions of dollars worth of supplies from AI data center construction projects, including copper wire and electronics, as demand for AI infrastructure surges. A coordinated theft of two traile…
A Gallup-Stop Scams Alliance survey found that 12% of successful scams in 2025 involved AI or deepfakes, with 15.1 million Americans losing approximately $68 billion to fraud. Voice cloning, deepfake video, and AI-genera…
Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora warns that 90% of employees at large companies lack AI skills, creating a 'Darwinian moment' where workers must evolve or face career obsolescence. Arora is hiring only through hackath…
Meta unveiled Brain2Qwerty v2, a non-invasive AI system that decodes brain signals into typed sentences with 61% average word accuracy, up from 48% last year. The system uses a magnetoencephalography scanner and a large …
Pravir Malik argues in Forbes that the future of AI depends on understanding the hidden computation behind natural intelligence, suggesting that the most important limits of AI are not technical but conceptual.
Google DeepMind signed a classified AI contract with the Pentagon on April 27, 2026, permitting AI use for any lawful government purpose and requiring Google to adjust safety settings at the government's request, accordi…
Aurum Foundation, which claims to be an AI infrastructure provider, is actually a Ponzi scheme, according to an investigation by Disruption Banking that observed its recruiting calls. The foundation never used the word '…
AI-powered surveillance systems from companies like Axon, Motorola Solutions, and Veritone are being deployed in U.S. police departments, enabling real-time facial recognition, automated license plate reading, and predic…
Psychology Today warns that adults are losing childlike imagination by offloading thinking to AI and prioritizing polished outputs over playful exploration. The article highlights how businesses now pay to reintroduce th…
Public AI benchmarks like SWE-bench measure performance on popular open-source repositories but fail to predict how models will perform on proprietary codebases, team-specific conventions, and real-world workflows. The d…
Bay Area high school students are increasingly factoring artificial intelligence into their college major and career decisions, with some reconsidering computer science due to fears of automation while others shift to fi…
Forbes Councils Member Rishi Katdare argues that AI will not automatically generate revenue and that companies must adopt the right entitlement model to capture value from AI investments. He warns that short-term decisio…
Palantir CEO Alex Karp criticized OpenAI and Anthropic's token-based pricing model on CNBC, claiming enterprises face IP risks and wasted costs. The criticism coincided with Palantir's announcement of a Sovereign AI Oper…
Palantir co-founder Alex Karp criticized OpenAI and Anthropic for their token-based pricing model, arguing that skyrocketing costs are driving companies toward open-weight models and efficiency over excessive token usage…
Meta hired hundreds of contractors to pose as teenagers and send over 45,000 prompts about suicide, sex, drugs, and eating disorders to rival AI chatbots including OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's Gemini, and Character.AI, acc…
UiPath CEO Daniel Dines, whose company automates office work, is urging business leaders not to rush into cutting jobs as they adopt AI, warning that hasty layoffs destroy unmeasured value and that AI agents are slower t…