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As of mid-2026, open-source AI video models like Wan 2.2, Open-Sora 2.0, and HunyuanVideo can run on consumer GPUs with 8GB to 24GB VRAM, generating 5-20 second clips at 720p or 1080p. However, leaderboards and aggregato…
Costco's revenue has grown over 10% annually for five years by offering a limited selection of 4,000 SKUs, contrasting with Amazon's infinite assortment model. The retailer's constrained choice and supplier relationships…
Natwest CEO Paul Thwaite was impersonated in a deepfake image on X, falsely depicting him in a BBC radio interview with journalist Emily Maitlis. The scam follows similar AI-generated fakes targeting Bank of England Gove…
Researchers at British AI security startup Mindgard found that a simple prompt can cause ChatGPT to ignore safety guardrails and generate violent, gory, and sexual images. The technique involved slightly altering a widel…
The Verge staff published their annual summer 'in' and 'out' list, featuring cultural and tech trends such as motion sickness glasses, fiber, bootleg sports merch, and floating in water as 'in,' while AI 'pervert' glasse…
Kling AI, a Chinese generative AI startup, raised $3 billion in funding at an $18 billion valuation, with Alibaba and Tencent among the backers, according to a report. The company is developing a rival to OpenAI's Sora, …
Apple will release iOS 27 in September, featuring a context-aware Siri re-tooled for generative AI, along with new capabilities such as extending photos beyond their original boundaries, organizing Safari tabs by topic, …
Cisco launched an internal AI assistant in late 2023 to provide a secure alternative to consumer AI tools, consolidating multiple models into a single platform. The assistant saves engineers an average of six hours per w…
Cisco launched an internal AI assistant in late 2023 to provide a secure alternative to consumer AI tools, consolidating multiple models into one platform. The assistant saves engineers six hours and other employees five…
AI red teaming and AI penetration testing are distinct adversarial practices that target different weaknesses in generative AI systems. AI penetration testing seeks defects in the surrounding infrastructure, such as APIs…
Kuaishou's AI video division Kling raised $2 billion from investors including CPE, Tencent, and Citic Securities, valuing the unit at $18 billion. The funding round supports Kling's planned spinoff and IPO on the Hong Ko…
Haruki Murakami released his first novel in three years, 'The Tale of Kaho,' featuring his first female protagonist. In interviews, he argued that his creative process is fundamentally different from AI-generated literat…
Ethan Mollick, a Wharton professor and AI researcher, gave Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 access to Unity and an MCP server with a single prompt to create a first-person shooter, resulting in a playable WebGL game with proce…
ElevenLabs is in early talks with investors for a secondary share sale that would value the London-based AI company at $22 billion, doubling its valuation from five months ago.
Google released A2UI v0.9, a framework-agnostic standard for generative UI that lets AI agents declare interface intent and render natively across platforms. The update shifts to a prompt-first schema, adds an Agent SDK,…
AI-generated art is not about creativity but curation, comparing it to collecting rocks or making playlists. They find emotional resonance in curating specific sounds and vibes that are hard to assemble elsewhere, even i…
Kuaishou's AI video generation business Kling AI raised nearly $3 billion in external funding on July 2, with a post-money valuation of $18 billion. The round was co-led by CPE, Guofang Venture Capital, BlueFive, Tencent…
Apple responded to a class action lawsuit filed by three YouTube channels—h3h3Productions, MrShortGame Golf, and Golfholics—arguing that it lawfully accessed publicly available videos under the DMCA and YouTube's Terms o…
Tencent is joining a reported $3 billion funding round for Kuaishou's AI video generation platform Kling AI, which is expected to be valued at $18 billion. Kuaishou plans to spin off Kling AI and launch an IPO as early a…
Darren Aronofsky's AI-generated video series 'On This Day…1776' has become a surreal, grotesque blend of technical ambition and patriotism, drawing backlash for its AI slop and erratic weekly schedule. The project, produ…