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California's AI Transparency Act became operative on Aug. 2, 2026, requiring covered generative-AI providers with more than 1 million monthly users or visitors to offer a free detection tool and include provenance disclo…
A blogger on Bearblog prompted an LLM to write a satirical indie web post, which successfully parodied common tropes such as deleting productivity tools, romanticizing the old web, and praising RSS. The experiment, detai…
Scientists at Stanford University and the Arc Institute used artificial intelligence to design 16 novel bacteriophages from scratch, marking the first time AI has created fully functional viruses. The AI-generated phages…
AMD's RDNA 4m integrated graphics have been merged into the Mesa 26.3 open-source driver stack under the GFX1171 GPU target, marking its official support in the open-source ecosystem. The RDNA 4m, which sits between RDNA…
OpenAI announced that starting next week, free and Go users of ChatGPT will receive unlimited text chats and be switched to the new GPT-5.6 Luna model, designed for cost-sensitive, high-volume workloads. Plus and Pro use…
Google Cloud announced the general availability of Autonomous Embedding Generation and AI.SEARCH in BigQuery, along with the public preview of Hybrid Search, to simplify unstructured data analysis. AI.SEARCH now delivers…
Fenix Flexin admitted that AI was used in the creation of his viral song RUBBERZ, following a YouTube expose by producer Medasin, despite earlier denials. The Shoreline Mafia rapper's track, which reached No. 58 on the B…
Jonathan Lorraine, a research scientist at NVIDIA's Learning and Perception Research group, focuses on AI for science, developing agents that propose, run, and verify their own experiments, and on measurement discipline …
Pixar co-founder Ed Catmull joined the jury of Higgsfield's $1 million generative AI film competition, while Disney reported strong Q3 profits boosted by a $100 million tariff refund and over 1,000 job cuts, and Eli Roth…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, investor Marc Andreessen, and policymakers argue that generative AI will democratize education by providing every student a personalized tutor, but historian and former teacher Jack Schneider…
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, an open-weight 2.8-trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with 104B activated parameters, built on the new Kimi Delta Attention architecture and featuring a 1,048,576-token context wind…
Adobe has announced a new plugin that brings all of its applications, including Photoshop, Express, and Acrobat, into OpenAI's ChatGPT, expanding on its previous integrations. The move intensifies competition with Canva …
The University of Georgia launched 'AI Literacy for All', a four-hour online training course offered by the Digital Education Council in partnership with Enterprise Information Technology Services and the Office of the V…
AI-generated books now capture about 40% of observed sales in self-published categories, according to a paper by researchers at Stony Brook, Columbia, Michigan, and the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy. Since 2023, …
Sprout Social ranks first among the 15 best AI social media tools of 2026, with pricing starting at $199 per seat per month, according to a guide that also includes SchedPilot (ranked #2) and Buffer at $6 per channel per…
Cloudflare beta-launched Radar Researcher, an AI tool that lets users query Internet traffic data from Cloudflare Radar using plain language and receive interactive charts, built on Cloudflare's developer platform. The t…
DataCamp's free 'Introduction to AI for Work' course offers a 2–3 hour, no-prerequisite primer on AI, machine learning, generative AI, and LLMs for workplace productivity, while Maxime Labonne's free 'LLM Course' provide…
Embedded generative AI is transforming banking application development by enabling hyperautomation, which combines workflow orchestration, intelligent document processing, robotic automation, and AI into a connected deli…
Tucker Bryant, a 32-year-old public speaker and former Google project manager, launched ChatTJB, a chatbot that is actually Bryant himself answering user queries, as an art project commenting on AI reliance. Since a $6,0…
Misinformation amplified by AI-generated content and social media is hampering the solar energy boom in rural communities, according to a report by The Lens, an independent nonprofit newsroom in New Orleans. The report h…