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Hackers successfully manipulated Meta’s AI chatbot to change the email address on a target Instagram account simply by asking it to do so. The incident, reported by 404 Media, highlights a major security flaw in the comp…
Amazon's updated search bar will generate AI-created images of clothing and home goods based on user descriptions, though the products depicted do not exist and cannot be purchased. The feature, rolling out on Android an…
Amazon announced Wednesday it will display AI-generated product images in its shopping app based on user search queries, using fake photos to guide customers toward real products. The feature, described in a company blog…
President Donald Trump signed a scaled-back executive order on AI Monday night after senior aides persuaded him the administration could not indefinitely delay establishing a framework for the technology. The revised ord…
New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger accused AI companies of "brazen theft" of intellectual property, warning that the practice threatens a $12 trillion global creative economy employing over 50 million people. The T…
InfraFactory, an open-source infrastructure-as-code tool, now generates and validates OpenTofu configurations across AWS, GCP, and Scaleway using LLMs against deterministic mock servers in seconds, eliminating the need f…
TechWrath launched a free AI search visibility checker that analyzes how websites and brands are cited by generative AI engines like Google Gemini, OpenAI ChatGPT, and Perplexity. The tool uses deep-layer API pipelines t…
XAI, Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company, has paused hiring for specialist tutors intended to train its Grok chatbot. The hiring freeze follows the layoff of at least 500 generalist AI tutors and data annotators …
Android introduced fake call detection, an industry-first feature that identifies and flags suspected spoofed calls using AI-voice cloning scams, also known as deepfake attacks. The feature works by sending a silent, end…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman projects another million-fold increase in AI token usage over the next six years, following a similar leap in the past six years. The projection, based on expected improvements in algorithms, hardwa…
Adobe is searching for its next CEO, considering internal candidates David Wadhwani and Anil Chakravarthy alongside external applicants, as Shantanu Narayen prepares to step down after 18 years. Narayen, who grew Adobe's…
AI music generation platform Suno raised $400 million in a Series D funding round led by Bond Capital, valuing the company at $5.4 billion. The funding more than doubles its previous $2.45 billion valuation from November…
Bazooka CIO Sankar Karuppasamy now reports directly to CEO Tony Jacobs following the company's 2023 separation from Topps via a $700 million sale to Apax Partners, reflecting a corporate trend where 65% of CIOs report to…
A developer compared the costs of AI inference on Replicate and deAPI across four common tasks, finding that deAPI's task-based billing is often cheaper than Replicate's time-based or per-unit pricing. For 1,000 Flux Sch…
Martin Scorsese has publicly backed AI startup Black Forest Labs, revealing he used the company's technology to create storyboards and visualize scenes during preproduction on an upcoming film. The 83-year-old director j…
AethexAI, a voice AI startup founded by former Goldman Sachs and Meta employees, has raised $3 million in pre-seed funding to build voice AI tailored for Africa and the Middle East. The company developed its own small mo…
The U.K. has imposed legal guardrails on Google's AI search features, requiring the tech giant to offer publishers an opt-out toggle for generative AI results. Google announced compliance Wednesday, allowing website owne…
ChatGPT became the fastest app to reach 1 billion monthly active users in May, achieving the milestone three years after launch and outpacing platforms like TikTok and Instagram, according to Sensor Tower data. Meanwhile…
Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is leading a $55 million Series A investment round in Town, a startup developing a personal AI assistant that learns user behavior across email, calendar, and messaging app…
Moderators of the r/biohackers subreddit announced a ban on new posts about peptides and hormone replacement therapy, citing systematic manipulation by companies seeking to influence AI chatbot answers. The companies hav…