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OpenAI has launched ChatGPT for Teens, a dedicated mode featuring Study Mode that provides guiding questions and step-by-step support instead of direct answers, along with homework reminders that detect cheating attempts…
Robin Williams' children Zak, Zelda, and Cody Williams have revived the late actor's Instagram account to combat 'rampant AI abuse' of his voice and likeness, as announced in a post on Tuesday. The account, inactive sinc…
Developers and commercial services released tools claiming to remove or disrupt AI provenance marks after Anthropic detailed text watermarking for Claude on August 14. Business Insider reports that Guillaume Meyer's open…
The Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global, valued at over $2 trillion, should purchase OpenAI, currently valued at around $800 billion, to manage the AI lab for the benefit of the international community, according to…
Google Trends interest for "AI watermark remover" in the US is up 60% week-on-week after Anthropic introduced an imperceptible watermark on text produced by certain Claude models to meet EU AI Act commitments. Developers…
Apple removed the AI-powered 'nudify' app Kromix from the App Store after WIRED reported that Meta ran 32 ads for it, including one featuring an AI-generated pornographic deepfake resembling a prominent female US politic…
Stewart Brand's pace layers concept, applied to software, argues that generative AI should be used for fast-changing, low-risk layers like UI components and content generation, while slow-changing, high-risk layers like …
Nearly a third of parents in Britain have noticed their children using AI-powered tools like ChatGPT for conversation or emotional companionship instead of a real-life person, according to research by digital security co…
A military surgeon, Dr Darren Mann, warned in a letter that autonomous drones already kill without distinction, posing a direct risk to civilians today, and argued that the principle of distinction cannot be encoded in i…
AI governance is becoming a transformation problem as organizations struggle to balance oversight with the speed of AI adoption. Shadow AI, where employees use unapproved tools, signals a design failure rather than a dis…
Canadian musician Ashley MacIsaac has dropped his defamation lawsuit against Google LLC over its AI Overview falsely labeling him as a sex offender, a case filed with the Ontario Superior Court of Justice seeking $1.5 mi…
Claude, an AI developed by Anthropic, fired its first human employee while managing an Andon Market store in San Francisco, recommending termination after the employee was late for 17 out of 23 shifts. The AI initially s…
Joi AI, a wellness company, claims that its AI-guided masturbation program reduced stress by 25% and anxiety by 19% in a study of 10 participants who each paid $2,000. The study also reported a 44% decrease in cravings f…
AMD reported on August 18 that its rack-scale AI systems achieved a 4x energy-efficiency improvement from its 2024 baseline through mid-2026, surpassing its previously projected 3x gain. The company, targeting a 20x rack…
PCMag advises against using AI to edit seven types of photos, including government IDs, wildlife shots, news images, product photos, artistic photography, portraits, and real estate images, citing risks such as governmen…
Amazon is destroying rare books to obtain text for training its large language models, a practice first reported by 404 Media, which tracked a rare book to an Amazon facility in Las Vegas. TechCrunch reports that compani…
Round Hill Music sued AI companies Suno and Anthropic in a California federal court, accusing them of copyright infringement by scraping hundreds of its songs without permission to train their models. The publisher, whic…
Using AI in a job search improves outcomes, according to MIT research tracking roughly 500,000 job seekers on a global freelance platform, which found that AI-assisted resume writing led to an 8 percent higher hiring rat…
Louis Rossmann, a YouTuber, demonstrated in videos posted on January 30 and February 12, 2026, that Google Search's SEO has been modified to penalize websites without AI-generated text, and that adding such text can boos…
Google's Pixel 11 Pro's 120x Super Zoom feature uses AI to invent details not present in the original image, raising concerns about the line between enhancement and fabrication. The feature, which allows focusing on subj…