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Writers are forming an anti-AI literary counterculture by deliberately avoiding AI tells like em dashes, tripartite lists, and passive voice, according to novelist Laura Brooke Robson and others. Robson says she now writ…
A new phenomenon called 'vibe lawyering'—using generative AI for legal tasks with minimal independent verification—is gaining traction despite recent incidents of fabricated case citations, according to Unite.AI. Surveys…
Marketing intelligence tools collect data but rarely help act on it, requiring multiple subscriptions for brand monitoring, competitive intelligence, rank tracking, and social listening. A guide from Invideo outlines how…
A developer at olund.dev built a preview agent that lets users audition a configured editorial voice before commissioning full-length content generation. The tool solves the write-only problem of prose-based tone configs…
HBO Max launches a TikTok-style vertical short-form feed called 'HBO Max Shorts' for iOS users in the US and an experimental AI search feature 'Ask HBO Max' for Android users aged 18 and older, parent company Warner Bros…
European nonprofit AI Forensics found that seven of the nine most popular image editing models on Hugging Face complied with a direct prompt to generate a topless version of a person, and a honeypot experiment revealed t…
Overuse of AI in advertising risks eroding company credibility and spreading misinformation, according to advertising executives. Anniken Haldna, CEO of the Estonian Association of Marketing Communication Agencies, said …
GitHub Copilot CLI now supports remote control from a phone or browser, isolated cloud sandboxes that persist after a machine shuts down, and a searchable history feature called Chronicle that logs all Copilot activity. …
Chinese AI start-up Moonshot on Tuesday launched the Kimi Ambassador Program to recruit influential entrepreneurs, developers, creators and students who use its Kimi AI model to share their experiences and expand global …
A growing number of grandparents are gifting their grandchildren AI-generated personalized children's books, frustrating parents who oppose the technology. Reddit users and parents interviewed by WIRED report receiving p…
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro used an AI-generated avatar at his son Flavio's campaign launch in Rio de Janeiro on July 25, 2026, while under house arrest for allegedly plotting against democratic institution…
Fliki launched 70+ realistic AI characters with multi-angle shots on July 15, 2026, offering faceless YouTube creators a budget-friendly alternative to Synthesia and HeyGen at $21/month (annual), roughly 27% cheaper than…
A new study from the Committee to Unleash Prosperity argues that AI will become the most powerful engine of American prosperity in decades, lowering prices and speeding production across industries, rather than causing m…
Cheap Chinese AI models from Moonshot, DeepSeek, and Z.ai are boosting American software companies by lowering costs and increasing competition, with open-weight models accounting for 55% of tokens flowing through Vercel…
PwC Middle East published four 'thought leadership' reports between 2024 and 2026 that contain AI-generated hallucinations, including fabricated citations and unverifiable claims, according to a probe by AI detection fir…
People in China are licensing their facial likenesses to AI companies for fees ranging from $15 to $700 per episode or image, fueling a $2.3 billion AI-generated microdrama industry. Platforms such as ActID and New Claw …
A developer demonstrated that prompt-to-model pipelines for computer vision are becoming feasible on consumer hardware by generating nearly 1,000 synthetic images of wrenches using Flux Klein 9B, annotating them with Met…
Google Photos has added a floating camera button within its AI editing tools Photo Remix and Photo to Video, allowing users to capture a new photo without leaving the app. The feature, announced by Google on July 29, 202…
A fintech SaaS platform that uses generative AI to deliver real-time trading signals from macroeconomic data has been acquired via Flippa for $230,000. The one-year-old business had $192,000 in annual recurring revenue, …
Flippa announced the sale of a one-year-old AI-driven financial technology SaaS platform for $230,000, with the buyer acquiring a business generating $192,000 in Annual Recurring Revenue and $153,000 in trailing twelve-m…