Generative AI

LinkedIn has added a button on every post allowing users to flag content that 'seems like AI slop,' according to a Bluesky post by user @scientits.bsky.social. The move comes as AI detection company Pangram reports that …

Google is testing AI-generated descriptions in Shopping and Product ads, expanding an experiment first confirmed earlier this month on standard Search ads. PPC expert Brodie Clark spotted the AI-generated descriptions ap…

OpenAI's GPT Image 2 leads all seven evaluation categories on Arena.ai's new community-voted image editing leaderboard, with an Elo score of 1463 based on more than 165,000 votes and a 242-point margin in some metrics. T…

LinkedIn is introducing a new feature this week that lets users flag posts that 'seem like AI slop,' removing them from the feed and privately notifying the poster that their words 'may have come off as inauthentic,' acc…

A blogger known as moodywarlock argues that generative AI is a 'global grift' that ingests copyrighted material to enrich billionaires, calling large language models, chatbots, and art generators an 'insincere scam' that…

A father used AI tools to translate and narrate a Chinese video about a disabled street vendor who earns $2 a day sewing shoe insoles with her mouth, making her story accessible to a global audience. He used Claude to wr…

Elon Musk's xAI filed a federal complaint to block a Minnesota law that would restrict apps and websites from creating nonconsensual sexual imagery of people, including minors. Minnesota lawmakers criticized Musk for att…

Google added voice-driven writing and editing to its Gemini macOS app on July 29th, giving users an Fn-key shortcut called Speak to Window that can place dictated text, rewrites, file summaries and generated images direc…

Meshy, an AI-powered 3D creation platform, is transitioning from a consumer app to an enterprise platform, scaling its generative AI tools for 3D modeling. The company aims to serve businesses with automated 3D content g…

Colin Petrie-Norris, founder of Xumo, is launching Fairground AI Creator TV, a free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) channel dedicated exclusively to AI-generated shows and films, set to debut next month across f…

Amazon Bedrock introduces Advanced Prompt Optimization, a tool that optimizes prompts for up to 5 models simultaneously while comparing original and optimized performance, replacing days of manual iteration with a metric…

Friend CEO Avi Schiffmann announced the second iteration of the Friend AI pendant, which now includes a speaker for voice responses and runs on OpenAI's latest models. The device costs $249, up from the original $129, wi…

LinkedIn on Thursday released a new tool allowing users to report posts as "Seems like AI slop" to combat low-quality AI-generated content. A report from research firm Pangram found that one in four long-form social medi…

A new U.S. map of copyright lawsuits against AI companies shows 129 total cases as of July 30, 2026, with the addition of Sony Music Entertainment v. Uncharted Labs II and the reactivation of Brave Software v. News Corp.…

Fintech giant Revolut has announced a global partnership with OpenAI, giving eligible customers free access to ChatGPT Go for three to twelve months depending on their subscription tier. The benefit, available through th…

A Thoughtworks technologist built a 150,000-line application entirely with AI agents (Claude Code and Cursor) and then ran an experiment showing that refactoring a 17,155-line Rust data-access file reduced token consumpt…

A lawsuit filed by supplement company Humann against Ambrosia Brands reveals that Rosabella, a supplement company, used AI-generated influencers and fake doctors to create hundreds of TikTok Shop videos promoting product…

Google has integrated its generative AI image creator Nano Banana 2 into Google Earth, allowing users to generate infographics, visualize historical periods, and create real estate plans, but early tests by ZDNet found t…

Google's new Search Console reporting for generative AI features, introduced in June, provides impression counts for AI Overview and AI Mode panels but lacks click data and query details, creating a trap for marketers wh…

Anthropic launched Claude Design on April 17, 2026, a research preview under Anthropic Labs powered by Claude Opus 4.7's vision capability that generates interactive prototypes with working navigation, embedded video, vo…