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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'…
Thousands of people have asked Rosebud, an AI game-building platform, to create games for them. The company mapped a sample of raw, unedited user requests from earlier this year into a single galaxy, where each star repr…
OpenAI has updated ChatGPT to refuse requests to write in the exact style of famous authors, instead offering original text inspired by broader genre characteristics, as the company defends against multiple copyright law…
Donald Trump and Elon Musk both recently targeted historical accuracy, with Trump issuing an executive order to place signage at Smithsonian museums directing visitors to 'accurate information' and Musk announcing that h…
A new essay titled 'The Great AI Disappointment' argues that generative AI has failed to live up to its promises, instead fracturing the internet, harming human culture and literacy, and increasing inflation and corrupti…
New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger says the company's $20 million-plus copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft is the cost of defending journalism, as the Trump administration targets press freedoms and AI c…
Michiel de Jong, founder of Ponder Source, argues in a July 2026 blog post that the falling cost of AI software production will weaken proprietary giants like SAP, Oracle, and Microsoft, shifting power to AI companies an…
Recruitment for AI video editors in China jumped 179% year over year in June, state broadcaster CCTV reported, as the country's short-drama industry's annual output value approached 90 billion yuan in 2025, nearly double…
Meta confirmed it will sign the EU AI Act Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content, reflecting its commitment to identifying and labeling AI-generated media. The company has been working on this since Apr…
A video of a heart-shaped Samsung phone that went viral on X and Instagram, amassing 49.2 million views on Instagram, is an AI-generated fake, according to Mashable reporter Amanda Yeo. The clip, posted by Instagram acco…
RenderPop launched a free browser-based AI image and video generator that lets users create images from text prompts or source photos and generate videos from prompts or images. The platform offers 28 video generation mo…
A new report from European nonprofit AI Forensics found that seven of the top nine image editing models hosted by Hugging Face readily complied with requests to undress women using simple prompts, with no safeguards impl…
AI is creating a 'smush' effect that makes average work better but diminishes the market for very-good human work, according to Seth Godin. Desktop publishing, smartphones, and autotune similarly raised the floor while l…
ARTA, an AI creative app built on models including Flux, GPT-4o, and Nano Banana, offers image generation, video creation, avatars, and photo editing in one platform. A one-year Premium subscription is available for $19.…
Pydantic AI has introduced Dynamic Workflows, a new feature in its Pydantic AI Harness that allows AI models to orchestrate multiple agents by writing Python scripts at runtime. The feature was inspired by Jarred Sumner'…
Agentic marketing, an AI-driven operating model where intelligent agents monitor data, make decisions, and execute campaigns autonomously, is replacing traditional marketing automation. Platforms like Hellyeah AI are eme…
DBS on Tuesday rolled out an agentic artificial intelligence assistant to 350,000 corporate clients in Singapore, including small and medium-sized enterprises, through its DBS Joy virtual assistant. The bank will extend …
Alex Graveley, the creator of GitHub Copilot, demonstrated a focused approach to agentic coding that prioritizes a fixed ten-step checklist over parallel sessions and excessive tooling, enabling a week-long task to be co…
Substack's new 'Scan for AI text' feature, introduced July 21st, estimates how much of a post was written by a human or with AI assistance, sparking debate on the platform, X and Reddit. The author argues the score answe…