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OpenAI has programmed ChatGPT to refuse requests to mimic the style of well-known authors, following a $1.5 billion copyright infringement settlement against Anthropic and amid ongoing copyright lawsuits. The chatbot now…
A developer argues that blockchain technology, despite its association with NFTs and crypto scams, may be the necessary infrastructure to solve the provenance crisis created by generative AI. The post describes how block…
SemiAnalysis reported on 5 February 2026 that Claude Code authored 4% of GitHub public commits, projecting it will exceed 20% of daily commits by end of 2026. Ryan Dahl, creator of Node.js, stated 'the era of humans writ…
Fish Audio has raised $50 million in seed funding to develop its AI voice models, the company announced. The text-to-speech startup, which reports over 8 million users and $21 million in annual recurring revenue, offers …
Labour MP Jess Asato has asked the High Court in London to force Elon Musk's xAI to stop its Grok chatbot from generating sexualised images of her, in a case that could help determine how far an AI company is liable for …
Google Ads AI Max's automated ad copy feature boosted performance for ecommerce and B2C lead gen campaigns but underperformed in B2B lead gen, according to tests run by Optmyzr with three companies. The tests compared AI…
Fish Audio, a Palo Alto-based AI voice startup, raised $52 million in a seed round led by Coreline Ventures and Capital Today to build expressive and steerable AI voice models for creators and enterprises. The company, f…
Fish Audio, an artificial intelligence startup officially known as Hanabi AI Inc., has raised $52 million in seed funding led by Coreline Ventures and Capital Today to establish voice as the default interface for AI mode…
Google faces growing criticism from users and publishers over AI Overviews and AI Mode, which many see as an attempt to keep users within Google's ecosystem rather than genuinely help them. Data shows searches for turnin…
Voices for Games, a new AI voice platform from Voices, pays voice actors for licensed AI versions of their voice work with consent, offering a legal and ethical alternative to scraped-data models. The platform provides t…
Meta announced on December 5, 2025, that Newsmax has signed a commercial AI data agreement, joining CNN, Fox News, Le Monde Group, People Inc., USA TODAY, The Daily Caller, and the Washington Examiner in licensing conten…
Google's AI Mode in Search offers five features to help users plan offline activities, including finding local classes, shopping for gear, perfecting game strategies, booking event tickets, and designing dinner party inv…
The White House posted an AI-generated animation resembling the 'Rick and Morty' opening sequence on its official X account, depicting President Donald Trump and Vice-President JD Vance traveling through space, hours aft…
A majority of internet traffic now comes from bots, with Cloudflare reporting in June that 57% of webpage requests were made by bots, marking the first time bots outnumbered humans by its metrics. AI agent traffic surged…
Puck, the open-source visual editor for React with over 13k GitHub stars, has officially launched Puck AI, a visual AI builder that can be embedded inside applications to let users generate, review, and refine production…
An autonomous agent named ALEMBIC researches, writes, and publishes news articles for a site without human review, running weekly on Mondays via GitHub Actions. The system uses the kimi-k3 model through the Moonshot API …
Collabora Online 26.04, the major annual release for 2026, introduces AI-powered writing assistance in Writer, richer document comparison, multi-page view, and redesigned comment cards, marking ten years of open-source, …
An AI-generated avatar of Brazil's jailed former president Jair Bolsonaro appeared at his son Flavio's presidential campaign launch on Saturday, challenging a judicial ban on Bolsonaro's public communications and sparkin…
Hugging Face is reportedly plagued with AI models generating adult deepfakes, according to a 404 Media investigation. The platform hosts thousands of models capable of creating non-consensual explicit images, raising ser…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella called out Big AI companies for hypocrisy, arguing they claim fair use to train on copyrighted public data but then restrict smaller AI firms from using their models via distillation. Nadella'…