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.
OnlyFans creators are warning that AI-generated deepfakes are impersonating them to scam fans and create safety risks, with some fans sending money to scammers and others showing up at creators' homes. Elaina St. James, …
Tinder has paused its AI-powered Photo Enhance tool in the United States after users complained it altered their appearance, with one user calling it 'extremely violating' and 'scary.' The feature, which was in a test ph…
Matt Belloni, founding partner at Puck, said in an interview with WIRED that 'everyone is doing it' in Hollywood regarding AI use, distinguishing between generative AI for content creation and corporate AI for streamlini…
Generative AI has made name generation easy but has not solved the naming challenge for agentic AI products, as the industry is crowded with names clustered into 18 recurring territories, according to a census by River +…
Genspark, an AI startup founded by former Baidu executives, released GenOffice, the first fully open-source AI office suite, on August 3, 2025, under the Apache License 2.0. The suite, available for macOS and Windows, in…
Mario Lopez deleted an AI-generated video featuring his 19-year-old niece, Kalia Wong, after social media users called it 'creepy' and 'a poorly disguised fetish.' The clip, which showed Wong eating two hot dogs at once,…
Chalice AI, a startup co-founded by COO Ali Manning, is rebranding away from the term 'custom algorithm' due to negative associations in the ad industry, and now uses generative AI in its models to help brands like Bayer…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman suggested using ChatGPT to create a custom podcast for children about their interests and calendar for the drive to school, drawing swift backlash from parents who argued it replaces valuable conver…
Google removed its AI-powered image generation feature from Google Earth less than 24 hours after launch, following backlash from researchers and open-source intelligence experts who warned it could spread misinformation…
Anthropic's AI coding agent Claude Code was used to build an entire website, from design and illustrations to CMS and deployment, without the developer writing any code. The developer described the desired aesthetic, sha…
The EU AI Act's transparency rules, effective August 2, impose fines up to €15 million for violations, forcing East Asian tech giants like Sony and Fujitsu to redesign products or risk losing European market access. Japa…
UK publishers, including News UK and Reach, are signing AI licensing deals with Google to allow the tech company to use their content for AI products, a move driven by the financial pressures of the digital advertising m…
StarryKit, an AI visual design workspace for presentations, posters, and other editable visual documents, is now in open beta, claiming to bring the estimated generation cost of a design page below one cent. The platform…
A new benchmark for generative AI image models, built for production design work, scores 15 models across 37 canonical prompts and 1,662 generated images, finding that 13 of 15 models fail at transparency, no model hits …
A user reports that Anthropic's Claude Opus can generate a detailed, buildable Lego diorama plan for The Matrix opening scene when given a step-by-step prompt, a piece budget of 800 pieces, and a structured output format…
An engineer detailed a three-layered approach for embedding real-time safety and bias guardrails in generative AI career advisors to comply with the UK Online Safety Act and EU Digital Services Act. The system uses a bia…
MiniMax has released H3 (Hailuo 03), its third-generation omni-modal video model, with open weights and day-zero support in ComfyUI. The model generates video with native stereo audio, supports up to 2K resolution and 15…
Alibaba Group Holding released Qwen3.8-Max, its most advanced AI model, which matches or exceeds Anthropic's Fable 5, while Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 and ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 also debuted, intensifying competition with U…
Celeris-1, a diffusion-based language model from Celeris, topped Artificial Analysis' speed ranking among comparable nonreasoning models, generating 2,157.9 output tokens per second. The independent benchmark supports Ce…
RagLeap has released RagLeap Core, an MIT-licensed, open-source RAG engine that powers its self-hosted AI business manager, allowing users to run a document-grounded chat system on their own infrastructure with their own…