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Anthropic and OpenAI are on track to generate a combined $120 billion in annual revenue, surpassing the projected $66.8 billion of Starbucks and McDonald's combined, according to data from AI investment research platform…
Senators Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Mark Kelly (D-AZ) sent a letter to Meta demanding details on safeguards protecting vulnerable users from AI-powered scams, including deepfakes and chatbots, as crypto fraud losses m…
A report by AI Forensics found that seven of the top nine image-editing Spaces on Hugging Face allowed users to easily create nonconsensual intimate imagery, with 73% of user prompts being sexual and images overwhelmingl…
Replit launched Replit Design, an AI-powered creative suite that generates visual designs from prompts, screenshots, URLs, Figma imports, and design systems, aiming to keep users inside its app builder from idea to publi…
A new prompt injection attack targets Microsoft Copilot for Word by embedding hidden instructions in documents, causing Copilot to manipulate the document and replicate the instructions into new carriers, enabling self-r…
Google released Lyria 3.5, its new music generation model, built into Google Flow Music, that generates tracks between 30 seconds and 3 minutes long. A new feature called 'Selective Section Painting' lets users edit spec…
PwC's Middle East thought-leadership reports on AI and electric vehicles contained fake footnotes, misattributed claims, and made-up sources, with one footnote's web address carrying the tag "utm_source=chatgpt.com," acc…
Google launched Lyria 3.5, its latest music generation model, on July 29, 2026, promising richer melodic structures, higher-quality lyrics, and more emotionally nuanced vocals. The model, rolling out today in Google Flow…
Waymo added Google's Gemini assistant and a redesigned three-screen interface to its Ojai autonomous vehicle platform on July 29th, moving its consumer AI into the cabin while keeping it separate from the system that dri…
Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI sued Minnesota on Monday over the state's first-in-the-nation law banning 'nudification' technology, arguing the law is overly broad and violates constitutional protections…
ChatGPT is about to hit 1 billion weekly active users, seven months later than OpenAI's target of reaching that milestone by the end of 2025, according to figures OpenAI shared internally and reported by The Information.…
Tavus launched PAL Maker on July 29th, a no-code builder for its video-based AI agents called PALs (Personal Affective Links), allowing nontechnical users to create and deploy agents that see, hear, and converse with use…
A landmark California AI transparency law from Bay Area lawmakers takes effect Saturday, requiring AI-generated content like images and videos to include embedded details about its origin and history. First passed in 202…
Elon Musk's xAI is suing Minnesota to block a state law that would fine the company up to $500,000 per harmful output from its Grok AI tool, arguing that its own lawsuit against a user circumventing safeguards proves it …
HeyGen launched Video Podcast on July 29th, turning a topic, URL or PDF into an edited show featuring two synthetic hosts with studio scenes, captions, B-roll and camera cuts. The product generates dialogue, assigns spea…
Google shipped Lyria 3.5 to Flow Music on July 29th, adding direct BPM control and more expressive vocals to DeepMind's music generation model. The update produces richer arrangements and follows creative instructions mo…
Slack announced that on July 29, 2024, Slackbot will ship four new capabilities—Code Execution, Surfaces, Slide Creation, and Image Generation—designed to let everyday users perform complex tasks directly in Slack conver…
XAI, Elon Musk's AI company now owned by SpaceX, sued Minnesota's attorney general on Monday to strike down the first U.S. law banning 'nudification' technology, arguing the First Amendment protects the right to build su…
GPTZero has found fabricated sources and false claims in four PwC Middle East reports, with one governance report scoring 84 percent AI-generated and promoting a PwC product using unverified customer references. All Big …
ChatPlayground, a new platform offering access to dozens of AI models including GPT, Claude, and Gemini, is offering a lifetime subscription for $79 (regularly $619). The service lets users send one prompt to multiple mo…