Generative AI

President Donald Trump posted approximately 40 times on Truth Social over the weekend, sharing AI-generated images of himself as Elvis Presley, capturing an extraterrestrial, and overseeing Greenland, alongside attacks o…

Eigen Labs' lead research engineer Gajesh Naik said on August 1st that a public network of developers and AI agents made Poolside's Laguna XS 2.1 inference 138.7% faster on Apple Silicon, four days after the MLX.fast cha…

Cartoonist Joe Dworetzky, writing for Bay City News Foundation, tested whether generative AI could expand his drawings without losing his unique style, a pursuit he calls 'Joe-Ness.' The experiment, reported on August 2,…

An AI-assisted staging of Wagner's 'Götterdämmerung' at the Richard Wagner Festival in Bayreuth, Germany, drew boos from the audience on Saturday evening, with curator Marcus Lobbes and his team greeted with boos and whi…

President Donald Trump shared AI-generated images on Truth Social on Saturday, depicting himself arresting extraterrestrials and kissing a statue of Jesus Christ, as reported by Mediaite. The posts, which appear to be pa…

A new playbook from The AI Corner claims that using Anthropic's Claude to create custom digital products for Etsy can generate $10,000, citing Etsy's 86.6 million active buyers, Pinterest's 41% share of Etsy social traff…

A Hacker News user asked whether Discovery Channel's Shark Week uses AI-generated B-roll footage, citing suspicions while watching the show. The post received 1 point and no comments as of the time of submission.

Minnesota's ban on AI nudification technology took effect on August 1, 2026, after U.S. District Judge Donovan W. Frank denied Elon Musk's xAI an emergency motion to pause it, citing the company's three-month delay in fi…

The value of open-source contributions as a hiring signal is weakening because AI can generate patches and pull requests at scale, making it harder for maintainers to assess genuine understanding and for recruiters to re…

Pippa, a generative AI video startup co-founded by Hogan Shrum and Sean Wright, is offering artists $0.005 per image and $0.003 per second of video, plus a share of a 5 percent royalty pool, to compensate them for their …

British pop star Charli XCX faces backlash after revealing that AI-powered audio processing tool Concatenator, developed by DataMind Audio, was used on the track 'No One Lasts Forever' from her new album Music, Fashion, …

Loop-me, a generative art project by an independent developer, creates endless looping animations that users can randomize, tweak, and share, with a built-in warning for flashing lights. The project is available on Show …

An editor at a small indie press reports receiving three to four AI-generated book submissions weekly, noting that while half pass initial review, they lack original insight and threaten to bury quality writing. The edit…

A 17-year-old developer explains the differences between AI, machine learning, deep learning, and generative AI in a beginner-friendly blog post. The post clarifies that AI is any system mimicking human thinking, machine…

404 Media reported that an AI-powered TikTok Shop operation produced and sold dietary supplements that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recalled, highlighting the risks of AI-generated content in e-commerce. T…

A solo founder evaluated text-to-image APIs for marketing posters and social ads, prioritizing prompt adherence and style control over resolution, and treating upscale as an optional export step. The founder recommends O…

Android Authority contributor Rita El Khoury built a custom household management progressive web app using Anthropic's Claude AI after finding existing apps like Cozi Family Organizer, OurHome, and Sweepy lacking in feat…

Lerobit's AI marketing platform offers auto publishing features that allow small businesses to schedule and distribute content across multiple platforms, saving time and ensuring consistent engagement. The platform inclu…

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman criticized Google's AI Overviews during the company's Q2 FY2026 earnings call, saying the AI-generated search summaries have failed to deliver a 'win-win' for the web ecosystem, unlike traditiona…

Republican California gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton posted an AI-generated video on X depicting alleged migrant child abuse camps under former Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, based on public re…