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UPS uses its AI-powered ORION (On-Road Integrated Optimization and Navigation) system to continuously analyze millions of delivery decisions influenced by traffic, weather, fuel prices, road conditions, driver schedules,…
Gradial, an AI startup founded by CEO Doug Tallmadge, launched new capabilities on Wednesday that enable it to develop new, on-brand creative assets at scale by assembling existing assets from systems like Figma and Shar…
Apple Inc. has gone viral with a behind-the-scenes video showing its Mac mini commercial was made with physical craftsmanship, not generative AI or CGI, drawing praise from creators and commentators. The ad, for the M6 a…
ByteDance's new AI-native editor Trae, currently free in beta, outperformed Cursor in a hands-on test of Builder Mode, generating complete files and running commands autonomously, but its aggressive file modifications re…
UK police forces, including South Yorkshire, Cheshire and Cumbria, have debunked viral AI-generated videos of a 'Cat in the Hat serial killer' stalking streets and homes, confirming the figure is not real. The scare, whi…
Pro-Kremlin Telegram channels are spreading AI-generated deepfake videos of two Ukrainian lawmakers who appear to call for peace talks, racking up 130,000 views in two weeks, according to NewsGuard. Even when debunked, t…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admitted he was wrong about the speed of AI disruption, saying the industry made AI seem 'scary' and that businesses have been slow to adopt new technology due to existing systems and habits. Speaki…
A fake US thinktank, the Hanover Institute for Public Policy, set up and funded by Israel, published over 560,000 words in nine days to manipulate AI chatbots into citing its pro-Israel content, according to a Guardian a…
Google's AI Mode has surpassed 1 billion monthly users, and at Marketing Live in May, Google introduced four Gemini-powered ad formats for AI Mode and Search, including Conversational Discovery Ads, Highlighted Answers, …
AI visibility firm Promptwatch reported that Reddit's share of ChatGPT citations plunged by 86% in mid-August, a trend confirmed by three other AI visibility firms, sparking concern among marketers. However, AI SEO resea…
Amplitude Studios denied claims that the Humankind 2 announcement trailer was made with generative AI, stating it was filmed at Nu Boyana Film Studios in Sofia using real actors, practical sets, and custom props. The tra…
Harvard Business School has been selling access to AI-generated video avatars of its own lecturers for $699, with seven professors volunteering and one, Jeff Bussgang, calling his double 'creepy'. The eight-week online c…
IBM released its Granite 4.2 family of open-weight large language models on August 25, featuring three variants (3B, 8B, and 30B) with native 128K context windows and switchable chain-of-thought reasoning, all under the …
Meta planned far larger layoffs than previously reported, aiming to replace thousands of roles with AI-driven systems, but backed down after a staff revolt, according to internal documents and interviews. The plan, which…
Google is beta testing a new Product titles report in Google Ads that shows AI-created product titles when they are more relevant than the advertiser's original titles. The report, spotted by Yash Mandlesha on LinkedIn, …
IBM has launched Granite 4.2, a new family of open-weight large language models available in 3B, 8B, and 30B parameter variants, designed for local deployment. The models feature a 128,000-token context window, and the 8…
Chinese AI startup MiniMax reported first-half revenue of $116.6 million for the six months ended June 30, a 283.1% surge from a year earlier, driven by demand for its low-cost models and AI platform. The Hong Kong Stock…
Runable, a year-old AI agent platform founded by Umesh Kumar and Saksham Sarda, has raised $21 million to scale operations, claiming over one trillion tokens processed in 90 days with 60% to 70% from paying customers. Th…
Andrea Ricci ported DOOM to the SCINTIX P4 single-board computer and used Anthropic's Claude Sonnet large language model to play the game, with the model receiving only the same visual information as a human player and r…
AI-generated animal videos and images are eroding trust in authentic content, prompting organizations like We Animals to adopt provenance technology to verify their work. A scam involving a fake photo of a lost cat in Lo…