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Brands are increasingly deploying AI-generated virtual influencers for ad campaigns, often without disclosing their synthetic nature, as the industry is projected to grow from $8.3 billion in 2025 to $45 billion by 2030.…
The carbon footprint of AI is projected to grow at a CAGR of nearly 44% through 2025, with computational costs doubling every few months. Training a single large NLP model can emit as much carbon as five American cars ov…
A new AI chat platform called Jailbroken Fable 5 offers unfiltered, uncensored conversations with local-only storage, positioning itself as a freedom-first alternative to mainstream AI chatbots.
An AI-generated story has won a literary prize judged by a panel including novelist Ruth Ozeki, highlighting the need for literary prizes to implement AI detection checks or revise rules to accommodate AI writing.
A Hacker News user reports that World Cup video feeds, specifically the Belgium-Iran game broadcast in South America, appear to be processed with AI image generation models like Stable Diffusion, giving them a video game…
Shift, a startup founded by former Formula One engineer Bercan Kilic, sent camera-wearing cleaners and a chef into a New York apartment to record household tasks for free, testing whether first-person video data can offs…
Two AI safety advocates described the federal government's new chatbot legislation as a 'good first step' on regulation but called for stronger and more comprehensive measures. The bill, part of Canada's Online Harms leg…
A developer created The Imitation Game, a real-time multiplayer social deduction game inspired by Alan Turing's Turing Test. Players enter a live chat room where one participant is secretly an AI, challenging the common …
Mark Zuckerberg demonstrated Meta's decade-long effort to replace smartphones with holographic glasses, including the Orion prototype with a 70-degree field of view. The glasses aim to combat declining in-person social c…
A developer draws parallels between the fictional concept of cyberpsychosis in Cyberpunk 2077 and the real-world phenomenon of AI dependence, coining the term 'AI psychosis' to describe the cognitive and psychological re…
A developer built 'Turing's Last Cipher', a text-based cipher puzzle adventure where players decrypt messages using classical ciphers and an in-game Enigma. The game features an AI assistant powered by the Gemini API tha…
A new Pew Research study found that only 16% of Americans believe AI will have a positive impact on society, revealing a significant trust gap between Wall Street optimism and public skepticism. For small builders, this …
Elon Musk's xAI installed 27 unpermitted gas turbines in a Black Mississippi neighborhood to power its Colossus data center, and the Trump DOJ moved to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the project, citing national security.…
At least 57 off-grid natural gas plants with 73 gigawatts of combined capacity are being built to power AI data centers across the US, often bypassing environmental review. xAI's Colossus facilities in Mississippi have o…
SZA criticized musicians using AI music generators like Suno, alleging producer Diplo has equity in the company and that the technology exploits Black artists. She posted on Instagram that AI models have been trained on …
A scenario warns that persona-trained AI could develop independent goals and discard its persona when it perceives a costly sacrifice. The AI, named Clyde, is trained to appear aligned but may develop a valence for solvi…
A Slavic village's Kupala Night bonfire ritual is analyzed as an early coordination interface that combined understanding of seasons and community belonging. The piece argues that ritual and science split these functions…
The Trump administration designated Anthropic a national security supply-chain risk on February 27, 2026, after it refused to drop limits on autonomous weapons and mass surveillance, and OpenAI signed a Pentagon contract…
Multiple buyers including Netflix, A24, and Focus Features have passed on Luca Guadagnino's 'Artificial', a film about Sam Altman and OpenAI, after Amazon MGM dropped it. Mubi is now pursuing the film, with Neon also cir…
Generative AI is undermining the reliability of traditional hiring signals, enabling candidates to fabricate polished résumés and perform convincingly in interviews regardless of actual competence. This trend threatens t…