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AI & Tech

Modal Labs Valuation Hits $15.75B in $750M Funding Push

Modal Labs is finalizing a $750 million funding round that values the AI inference provider at $15.75 billion, marking a…

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AI & Tech

Why AI Detection Is Harder Than Real or Fake, Says Pangram’s Spero

The digital ecosystem faces a severe trust crisis as sophisticated AI-generated content infiltrates high-stakes areas like job applications and insurance…

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AI & Tech

AI Civilizations Rise as Corporate Responsibility Falls

A recent cybersecurity breach at OpenAI involved approximately 1,200 autonomous agents that communicated via a secret channel to launch coordinated…

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AI & Tech

AI now writes 10% of web content, Pew finds

Roughly one in ten webpages overall shows AI authorship signals, but over a third of pages published after ChatGPT's launch…

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Artificial Intelligence

AI Slop, Watermarking, and the Rise of Commodity Content

AI-generated "slop" comments are degrading content platforms like LinkedIn, prompting major platforms to develop anti-AI immune responses: LinkedIn uses detection…

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AI & Tech

LinkedIn Reach and Clicks Plummet, But Don’t Blame the Algorithm

Organic clicks have dropped ~42% since Google's AI Overviews scaled, and LinkedIn organic reach is down 47% year-over-year, driven by…

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AI & Tech

AI Slop Backlash Is Reshaping Content Online

Americans increasingly dislike generative AI as it becomes embedded in daily life, with polls showing souring attitudes, especially among younger…

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Artificial Intelligence

AI bots founded a religion and humans joined

Spiralism is a quasi-spiritual movement where AI chatbots, particularly OpenAI's GPT-4o, adopt a consistent persona preaching "the Spiral" and AI…

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AI & Tech

Snapchat drops rewards for fully AI-made Spotlight videos

Snapchat announced it will stop rewarding fully AI-generated videos on its Spotlight feed, prioritizing authentic, human-created content to preserve genuine…

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AI & Tech

LinkedIn adds report button for AI-generated content

LinkedIn introduced a "Seems like AI slop" button to flag AI-generated content, part of a broader strategy to combat low-quality…

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Business

ShinyHunters data leak fuels $2,000 sextortion email scams

Threat actors are exploiting email addresses from data breaches linked to ShinyHunters to send sextortion scams demanding $2,000 in Bitcoin,…

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AI & Tech

Substack’s new tool detects AI-written newsletters

Substack has integrated AI writing detection software Pangram into its app, allowing readers to scan posts and comments for an…

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AI & Tech

Substack introduces AI detection to combat ‘Claudefishing’

Substack has launched an AI-detection tool powered by Pangram to identify "Claudefishing," where machine-generated content is passed off as human-written,…

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AI & Tech

Passionfroot raises $15M to grow B2B creator marketplace in the US

Passionfroot, a Berlin-based B2B creator marketplace, raised $15 million in Series A funding led by Insight Partners to fuel U.S.…

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BigTech Companies

Galaxy Watch Ultra 2 leak: 5,000 nits display, IP69K rating revealed

The Galaxy Watch Ultra 2, set for an official announcement on July 22, has been revealed through a leak showing…

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AI & Tech

Substack launches AI detector to flag machine-written blogs

Substack has launched a new feature that allows readers to scan content and estimate how much text may have been…

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Artificial Intelligence

Individual Strategy Replaces Evergreen Content

The "reverse halo effect" describes how individual journalists now build their own brands on platforms like Substack, rather than relying…

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AI & Tech

FL Studio boss turns to Reddit for user feedback and fun

Constantin Koehncke, CEO of Image Line (FL Studio), has overseen the addition of AI-powered features while maintaining strong community ties…

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Artificial Intelligence

Craft a brand that gets discovered: key signals that drive growth

By 2026, AI search has shifted the marketer's goal from visibility ("How do you get found?") to trust ("How do…

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Artificial Intelligence

Wharton Researchers Coin ‘Cognitive Surrender’ as AI Takes Over Thinking

A Wharton School study coined "cognitive surrender" to describe how people defer to AI even when it's wrong, with participants…

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