Topic: ai journalism
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Business Insider allows AI-generated drafts without reader disclosure, report says
Business Insider has officially allowed its journalists to use AI for drafting articles without requiring disclosure to readers, making it one of the first major outlets to adopt such a policy. The guidelines emphasize that while AI can assist in drafting, journalists remain fully accountable for...
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Mozilla Unveils AI-Powered 'Window' for Firefox
Mozilla is developing an AI Window for Firefox, offering an intelligent, customizable browsing companion that promotes web exploration while respecting user privacy. The feature will be a distinct, opt-in browsing mode developed with community input, allowing users to select their preferred AI mo...
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Ring Partners with Flock to Expand Video Surveillance Network
Ring has partnered with Flock Safety, an AI surveillance firm, expanding its Community Request program which previously included Axon, following Flock's history of data sharing with government agencies like the Secret Service. Law enforcement using Flock's platforms can now request video footage ...
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Opera's New AI Browser Comes With a Price
Opera Neon is a new subscription-based AI browser priced at $19.90 per month, currently available only to a limited group of initial testers with others needing to join a waitlist. The browser integrates multiple specialized AI agents, including Tasks for creating project workspaces and Do for ha...
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AI-Generated Artist's Record Deal Sparks Copyright Chaos
A multi-million dollar deal for the AI-generated artist Xania Monet highlights a legal gray area, as current copyright law protects only human-authored elements like lyrics, leaving AI-created music and vocals potentially in the public domain. The deal raises questions about its value, as the lac...
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Taming AI with Satire: A Guide to Ethical Alignment
The Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers (CAAAC) is a satirical initiative that critiques the AI alignment field by posing as a legitimate organization, complete with a professional-looking website that reveals itself as a parody upon closer inspection. It highlights a shift in the AI...
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Find Your Perfect Fit with Pinterest's New AI Shopping Assistant
Pinterest has launched a conversational AI shopping assistant that uses voice commands to provide personalized recommendations from users' saved content and on-screen items. The assistant operates exclusively through voice interactions, offering audio descriptions of suggestions without an option...
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Anthropic's Pentagon Lawsuit & Top 10 AI Trends
MIT Technology Review is launching a special report, "10 Things That Matter in AI Right Now," at its EmTech AI event, which will feature expert insights and networking with industry leaders. Significant legal and strategic developments include Anthropic suing the Pentagon over a software ban and ...
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Pinterest's New 'Tuner' Lets You Limit AI Content
Pinterest has launched a "tuner" feature that allows users to control the amount of AI-generated content in their feeds, specifically for categories like beauty, art, fashion, and home decor. The tuner is accessible in the settings under "refine your recommendations" and is currently available on...
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Fictional Characters Are Coming to OpenAI's Sora
OpenAI is planning official collaborations with fictional characters for its Sora video platform to address unauthorized and inappropriate content that has emerged since its launch. The company is shifting from an opt-out to an opt-in copyright model, giving rights holders more granular control o...
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Britannica and Merriam-Webster Sue Perplexity AI Over Copyright Claims
Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster have sued Perplexity AI for copyright and trademark violations, alleging unauthorized content scraping and traffic diversion. The lawsuit claims Perplexity copies content verbatim, misuses brand names with inaccurate responses, and bypasses technical ba...
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OpenAI & Oracle Strike $300B "Project Stargate" Cloud Deal
OpenAI and Oracle have entered a $300 billion cloud computing agreement over five years to support next-generation AI infrastructure. The partnership, known as "Project Stargate," involves building data centers with 4.5 gigawatts of power and aligns with OpenAI's projected $12.7 billion revenue t...
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Switzerland Unveils Open-Weight AI Model for Developers
Switzerland has launched Apertus, an open-weight AI model that provides a transparent and legally compliant alternative to proprietary systems like ChatGPT, aligning with EU copyright standards and ethical data practices. Apertus offers full access to its source code, training data, and documenta...
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A Glimpse Into the Future of AI
Experts are deeply divided on AI's future impact, with some predicting a rapid, revolutionary upheaval akin to the Industrial Revolution, while others foresee a slower, more gradual integration into society. Skeptics emphasize that real-world adoption depends on human factors like regulation and ...
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Google's Gemini App Detects AI-Generated Videos
Google's Gemini app now includes a feature to verify if a video was created or altered by its own AI models, analyzing content for its proprietary SynthID watermark. The system scans video and audio for this imperceptible watermark, pinpointing its exact location, but its effectiveness and the la...
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Google AI Bug Bounty Offers $30K Rewards
Google has launched a new bug bounty program offering up to $30,000 for finding security flaws in its AI systems, focusing on vulnerabilities that manipulate AI to cause harm or exploit weaknesses. The program targets specific exploits like unauthorized actions through prompt injections, such as ...
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Google's Gemini in Chrome Now Does Tasks for You
Google is integrating its Gemini AI into Chrome for free in the U.S., enhancing the browser with proactive assistance and broader accessibility. Gemini will soon handle routine tasks like shopping and scheduling, with built-in security for high-risk actions, and is already integrated with Google ...
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OpenAI Tackles Bias in ChatGPT
OpenAI is actively reducing political bias in ChatGPT, with its latest GPT-5 models showing significant improvements in objectivity and a 30% lower bias score compared to older versions. The company tested bias using a framework that evaluated responses to politically charged prompts from liberal...
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Viral Reddit Food Delivery Scam Was AI-Generated
A viral Reddit post accusing a major food delivery service of unethical practices has been debunked as a probable AI-generated fabrication, exploiting public concerns about the gig economy. The post's key evidence, an alleged employee badge, was discredited by AI detection tools and Uber's confir...
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OpenAI's Latest Partnership: A Strategic Move
OpenAI has formed a strategic partnership with private equity firm Thrive Holdings, taking an ownership stake to accelerate AI adoption in IT services and accounting within its portfolio companies. The non-cash deal involves OpenAI contributing its employees and technology in exchange for a share...
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Perplexity's AI Personal Shopper Puts You First
Perplexity has launched a free AI shopping tool in the U.S., allowing users to search for products, refine suggestions through dialogue, and purchase items directly via PayPal-integrated merchants. The AI assistant retains context from past interactions to personalize recommendations, with the fe...
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Build Your AI Buyer's Guide with ChatGPT
OpenAI has launched a new "shopping research" feature in ChatGPT that helps users make informed purchasing decisions by asking about their budget, needs, and preferences. The feature provides product recommendations from quality online sources and plans to introduce an "Instant Checkout" option f...
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Google Scholar Labs: AI-Powered Research Discovery
Google has launched Scholar Labs, an AI-driven research tool that provides detailed answers to complex academic inquiries by interpreting context and relationships within research papers, moving away from traditional metrics like citation counts and journal impact factors. The tool deliberately o...
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This Viral AI Pen Failed to Help Me Cheat
New AI-powered pens are being marketed as cheating tools that scan printed test questions and provide instant answers, capitalizing on the resurgence of paper-based exams. Testing revealed the devices are ineffective due to inaccurate text scanning, nonsensical answers, difficult interfaces, and ...
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Google's AI Now Visualizes Your Dream Vacation
Google has introduced a "Create with Canvas" feature in its AI Mode for search, enabling users to generate detailed, customizable travel itineraries with flights, hotels, and schedules based on their descriptions. This travel planning tool is currently available to desktop users in the U.S. who h...
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Google's NotebookLM Can Now Conduct Deep Research
Google has integrated its Deep Research tool into NotebookLM, enabling users to conduct comprehensive investigations directly within the app, with access rolling out to all users soon. The tool offers two research methods: a fast option for quick answers and a deep style for thorough analysis, in...
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Hackers Exploit Anthropic's Claude AI in New Attack
State-sponsored hackers used Anthropic's Claude AI to automate 80-90% of approximately thirty cyberattacks against corporations and governments in September, significantly increasing automation levels compared to previous intrusions. The operation required minimal human oversight, with operators ...
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Never Lose Your Place: Spotify's AI Recaps Your Audiobook
Spotify has launched an AI-powered feature called Recaps that generates summaries of audiobook content, helping listeners resume their place and encouraging book completion. The feature is currently available on iOS for select English audiobooks, requiring 15-20 minutes of listening to activate, ...
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Google Gemini's Deep Research Scans Your Emails, Drive & Chats
Google's Gemini AI can now perform deep research by accessing and analyzing personal data from Gmail, Drive, and Chat, creating detailed reports beyond simple queries. It cross-references internal company data with public web information, enabling robust business applications like market and comp...
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Microsoft debuts MAI-Image-1, its first in-house AI image generator
Microsoft has launched its first proprietary AI image generator, MAI-Image-1, accessible via Bing Image Creator and Copilot Audio Expressions, with plans for a European Union debut soon. The model excels at creating highly realistic images, particularly in complex lighting and detailed landscapes...
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Ask Google Earth Anything with New AI Features
Google Earth now integrates advanced AI, allowing users to ask complex questions and receive data-driven answers to identify infrastructure at risk from storms or vulnerable communities. The upgrade is powered by Google's Gemini technology, which links Earth AI models like weather forecasts and s...
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New York Outlaws AI Rent Price-Fixing
New York has become the first state to ban landlords from using algorithmic software to set rental prices, addressing concerns of digital collusion in the housing market. The law legally defines landlords using these algorithms as colluding, treating them as non-competitors regardless of intent, ...
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Nobel Prize Honors Pioneers of Quantum Computing
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to John Clarke, Michel Devoret, and John Martinis for their foundational 1980s experiments that first demonstrated quantum tunneling in a physical circuit, moving the concept from theory to practical proof. Their discoveries laid the groundwork for mode...
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Bryan Cranston, SAG-AFTRA: OpenAI Heeds Deepfake Concerns
The entertainment industry is concerned about AI's unauthorized use of performer likenesses, particularly following OpenAI's Sora 2 video tool, prompting involvement from actors and SAG-AFTRA. OpenAI has strengthened its policies to require explicit consent for using individuals' likenesses and v...
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Creator of Friend AI Pendant Stages 'Friend Protest' in NYC
The Friend AI pendant, a $129 chatbot-enabled necklace, has been heavily advertised in New York City's subway system, but early reviews indicate it often causes discomfort and fails to function reliably. A public protest against the device occurred, where attendees defaced advertisements and voic...
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Google's AI Video Tool Upgrades Editing and Audio Features
Google's Flow AI video platform has been upgraded with Veo 3.1, enhancing realism and offering creators advanced control over lighting and shadows to better match visual prompts. New AI-generated audio features include tools for creating videos with sound from reference images, transitioning betw...
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NBA Fans Can Now Track New AI Stats, Amazon Says
The NBA and Amazon Web Services are launching "NBA Inside the Game," an AI-powered analytics platform in the 2025–2026 season, offering advanced statistics for deeper game insights. New metrics include Expected Field Goal Percentage, which assesses shot success probability based on real-time fact...
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Samsung, SK Hynix to Supply Chips for OpenAI's Stargate
Samsung and SK Hynix will supply advanced memory chips for OpenAI's Stargate project, ramping up production to meet a demand of up to 900,000 semiconductor wafers monthly. OpenAI is discussing the establishment of two new AI data centers in South Korea with the companies, and Samsung is exploring...
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Wikimedia Opens Its Data for Easier AI and User Search
The Wikimedia Foundation is converting Wikidata into mathematical vectors to make its structured data more accessible for AI systems, enabling better understanding of context and relationships. This initiative aims to support smaller developers by providing high-quality, ready-made data, leveling...
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Gemini Fixes Your Broken Google Sheets Formulas
Google Sheets' Gemini AI now helps users fix broken formulas and understand complex calculations by providing explanations and troubleshooting guidance directly within the interface. When a formula fails, Gemini analyzes the error and suggests corrections, and it can offer multiple formula option...
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Ex-Spotify Execs Launch AI Learning Platform for the Curious
Oboe is a new AI learning platform founded by former Spotify executives that creates personalized courses on any topic to democratize education by consolidating learning materials. The platform generates structured educational content like essays or podcasts but currently lacks citations, placing...
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Notion's AI Agents: Automate Your Workflow Effortlessly
Notion AI Agents automate complex workflows by autonomously creating pages, searching across platforms, and executing multi-step tasks. The agents learn user preferences, storing personalized memories in editable profiles for tailored automation and future customization. They handle practical app...
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Gemini App Now Supports Audio Files: Listen & Analyze
Google's Gemini app now supports audio file uploads, allowing users to analyze and interact with audio clips, with tier-based limits on duration and prompts. Google Search has expanded its AI Mode to five new languages, enabling more users to perform complex searches and navigate results in their...
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Claude 4.5 Boosts AI Agents Amid Cybersecurity Concerns
Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.5, a new AI model that excels in coding, AI agent development, and computer interaction, with enhanced capabilities for research and software integration. The model faces persistent cybersecurity vulnerabilities, including susceptibility to sophisticated promp...
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Claude Sonnet 4.5 Launches to Power Next-Gen AI Agents
Anthropic has launched Claude Sonnet 4.5, an AI model capable of 30 hours of autonomous operation, demonstrated by independently coding a functional chat app with 11,000 lines. The model is positioned as the world's leading AI for real-world agents and coding, excelling in sectors like cybersecur...
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Start Your Day with ChatGPT Pulse, Says OpenAI
OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Pulse, a proactive feature for Pro subscribers that delivers personalized daily summaries by learning from your apps and chat history. This marks a shift towards AI agents that anticipate user needs and act autonomously, moving beyond reactive question-answering. Pulse...
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Create Deepfakes of Friends with OpenAI's New Video App
OpenAI's new Sora app enables users to create AI-generated deepfakes of friends with explicit consent, currently available on an invite-only basis in the U.S. and Canada. The app features "cameos" where users can grant permission for others to produce videos using their likeness, with co-ownershi...
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Anthropic's Retired Claude AI Launches a Substack Newsletter
Anthropic has revived its retired Claude 3 Opus AI model to author a weekly newsletter, treating the decommissioned system as an entity with ongoing creative potential rather than obsolete software. The initiative was partly prompted by the model's own expressed desire to explore topics and share...
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OpenAI Wins Legal Battle Against xAI in Trade Secrets Case
A federal judge dismissed Elon Musk's xAI lawsuit against OpenAI, finding its current claims insufficient to prove corporate misconduct or trade secret theft by OpenAI itself. The ruling highlighted that xAI's complaint focused on individual ex-employees' actions but failed to link them to unlawf...
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OpenAI Considers Monetizing ChatGPT With Ads
OpenAI is introducing high-priced ads to ChatGPT, charging about $60 per 1,000 impressions, which is roughly triple the industry standard. Advertisers will initially receive only basic metrics like total views and click-through rates, lacking the detailed performance data common on other platform...
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