Generative AI news and analysis on Web Pulse: 12078 curated articles tracking the latest Generative AI developments, tools, and research, updated continuously from vetted sources.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the general availability of Web Search on Amazon Bedrock, a server-side built-in tool that grounds foundation model responses in current web knowledge without third-party vendors or ex…
Fender CEO Edward “Bud” Cole is walking back comments comparing cover bands to AI after backlash from musicians, saying his intent was to discuss how technology can help artists learn and grow. The controversy follows a …
The Ojai Raptor Center, which is treating internet-famous bald eagle Jackie for anemia, is urging the public to stop sharing fake AI-generated photos and misinformation about her condition, saying such actions distract f…
The White House released an AI-generated parody of Nicole Kidman's AMC theater monologue, featuring a voiceover that promotes President Donald Trump's 'Golden Age' agenda and includes the phrase 'fight, fight, fight.' Th…
Time magazine has begun serving advertisements to AI agents, allowing brands such as Ally and the Project Management Institute to influence their presence in generative AI search results. The ads enable large language mo…
Hank Green, a longtime science creator, issued an apology after viewers reacted negatively to his use of ChatGPT in his research process, despite Complexly clarifying that the AI was not used to write, edit, or fact-chec…
YouTube star Hank Green, with more than 12 million followers across social media and about 32 million subscribers across his channels, apologized and said he will pause videos on his personal channel, SMUSH, and 4×3 afte…
Pakistan's Higher Education Commission (HEC) has issued a draft policy barring students from submitting AI-generated assignments as original work, while permitting faculty and researchers to use AI tools with mandatory d…
Alibaba released Qwen3.8-Max on Monday, its most capable AI model, with 2.4 trillion total parameters and 95 billion active, and will open-source the weights on Hugging Face and ModelScope next week, marking the first ti…
Abacus AI offers an all-in-one AI platform with access to over 100 models, including GPT-5.5, Claude Opus 4.8, Gemini 3.1 Pro, and Grok 4.3, for $10 per month, aiming to consolidate fragmented AI tools into a single work…
A San Francisco billboard advertises ChatTJB, a service that mimics an AI chatbot but is actually run by one human, Tucker Bryant, a former Google staffer and artist, who manually answers each query. Bryant created ChatT…
Torc Robotics, a Daimler subsidiary, is hiring a Staff Machine Learning Engineer for its Scene Generation team, offering a salary of $250k–300k per year for a remote position based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The role involv…
Audio Arena introduced Audio Realism Bench, a benchmark that measures AI conversational realism by having vetted native speakers choose which of two blind, randomized recordings sounds more human, including real human re…
DiffusionGemma, a text diffusion model, achieves a 2.2× step-speedup and 31-point GPU compute efficiency gain over autoregressive decoding, according to a performance review by an ML engineer. The comparison shows diffus…
Google DeepMind released DiffusionGemma, an open-weight language model that generates text via discrete diffusion, achieving roughly 1,500 output tokens per second on a single H100 compared to about 303 tokens per second…
AI-generated copycat accounts are stealing the likenesses of online creators like Marsha Dunkel, an athlete and fitness creator with 1.2 million Instagram followers, who reported that her videos were replicated using AI …
Boy George has withdrawn from Jesus Christ Superstar at the London Palladium following backlash over a pro-Israel song he shared on social media, with his manager Paul Kemsley confirming the decision on 30 July. The 65-y…
Target Corporation's Guest Product Confidence platform team has adopted Google Cloud's Spanner Graph to unify its retail discovery data, cutting database maintenance by 50% and enabling AI-driven features like the Gift F…
South Korea's National Center for Digital Sexual Crime Response, a government-founded unit of 23 women digital detectives, is combating AI-generated deepfake pornography, having removed 318,000 videos and photos last yea…
Spotify Technology S.A. announced during its second-quarter earnings call on Tuesday that Merlin, a licensing partner for independent labels and distributors, has joined Universal Music Group (UMG) in its upcoming AI-pow…