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A study of 16 volunteers found that conversations with AI-generated 'ghosts' of deceased loved ones were often comforting, even when the chatbot invented facts, according to information scientist Jack Manning of the Univ…
Google's AI cited Facebook as a source in 19.5 million AI Overviews, according to new research from enterprise SEO firm BrightEdge. The study, which tracks roughly 300 million monthly searches, found that Instagram appea…
A Psychology Today article warns that reliance on generative AI erodes human skills through 'agency decay,' citing a 2025 MIT Media Lab preprint that found weaker neural connectivity in participants writing essays with a…
Netflix revealed that generative AI shaped roughly 300 of its films and shows in its 2026 slate, while director Christopher Nolan called AI 'a Trojan horse that everybody knows the Greeks are inside' and SAG-AFTRA reject…
A new working paper by Tuck professor Lauren Xiaoyuan Lu finds that agentic AI systems with human-in-the-loop supervision improve service speed but not service quality in customer service operations. The study, based on …
A developer has built a pipeline using Claude Code and Higgsfield's CLI to produce 10-minute AI movies for about $200 each, with Seedance 2.0 for video, Nano Banana Pro for images, Sonilo for music, ElevenLabs for voices…
AI is transforming the production of China's microdramas, short series made for phones that have gained popularity in the US, according to NBC's Janis Mackey Frayer reporting for TODAY on July 20, 2026.
Starting August 2, providers of AI systems in the EU must disclose when users are interacting with a machine and add machine-readable marks to AI-generated content under new transparency rules from the AI Act. Henna Virk…
An exposed WebDAV server containing over 1,000 artifacts was discovered by an MDR team, revealing a fully operational malware delivery lab where attackers used generative AI to systematically test delivery paths, social …
Brand tracking startup Tracksuit has acquired Hall, a Sydney-based startup that measures how brands appear in AI assistant responses, adding AI-monitoring capability to its existing business of surveying consumer sentime…
Morning Brew co-founder Alex Lieberman built a six-step Claude content machine that generates publishable posts without producing generic AI slop, using an Oracle to scan for content spikes, an interview panel to extract…
Honda is rolling out Google Gemini to replace Google Assistant in select U.S. vehicles, but the AI upgrade is limited to pricier trims with Google built-in hardware, such as the Civic Si at $31,495 and Civic Sport Tourin…
Forbes senior contributor Rachel Wells reports that ChatGPT's new Skills feature in ChatGPT Work saved her hours of administrative work by automating repetitive tasks, reducing inefficiencies in her workflow.
Expedia Group CEO Ariane Gorin said artificial intelligence presents a growth opportunity rather than a threat to online travel agencies, despite the company acknowledging agentic AI as a competitive risk in its latest a…
Irish SMEs are drowning in job applications due to AI-generated CVs, with interview rates plummeting from 15% in 2016 to 2-3% today, according to organisational psychologist Edward Bowman. Only 12% of small businesses ar…
Artificial intelligence tools are shrinking video game development teams, enabling solo developers like Emirhan Gül to build games with just two employees, a fraction of the nearly dozen workers in his previous job. More…
OpenAI abruptly shut down Sora, the generative AI tool that production company Native Foreign was using to make the feature film *Critterz*, according to director and chief creative officer Nik Kleverov. Kleverov argues …
Microsoft is prioritizing AI and agent features in Visual Studio Code, with nearly every new feature in recent releases focused on AI, according to a developer complaint. The author argues that VS Code should instead foc…
Meta pulled a feature from its Muse AI image generation model after privacy concerns arose over a default-on option that allowed users to create new images from public photos and videos by simply mentioning a handle. Cel…
CuspAI, a Cambridge, UK-based startup, closed a $450 million Series B at a $2.6 billion valuation, co-led by Bezos Expeditions, to scale its AI-driven materials discovery platform. The company's valuation surged from $52…