US media, film, publishing, and arts industries have lost more than 200,000 jobs over the past four years, including about 50,000 in the past year, according to an analysis of employment trends. The decline comes without a broad recession, raising new questions about whether generative AI is intensifying an already difficult transition for creative businesses. …
Wikipedia’s volunteer editors are expanding their efforts to find and remove AI-generated material that violates the encyclopedia’s rules. The work now extends beyond obvious chatbot phrases to misleading citations and subtler writing patterns. Eliza Strickland reports for IEEE Spectrum that the WikiProject AI Cleanup began after editors noticed articles filled with repeated, unnatural language and …
Google has added a privacy-policy exception that allows data from Gmail, Google Drive, and Google Photos to inform personalized advertising when users choose to make that data available to certain Google services. The change applies to people who connect these services to Google Search, Gemini Apps, or other tools through Personal Intelligence. The feature lets …
Existing AI benchmarks provide little evidence about how well models perform most tasks in the U.S. economy, according to a new analysis from Mercor. Mercor reports in its Benchmark Map that about 90% of U.S. working hours involve tasks with little or no representation in the benchmarks it reviewed. The company mapped 29 public and …
VistaCreate has introduced an AI-powered version of its design platform aimed at small businesses that need marketing assets for digital channels and print. The VistaCreate Team announces in an official VistaCreate blog post that the update combines AI guidance, image editing, content adaptation, and printing workflows in one service. The company targets businesses including food …
Google has introduced Genie 4, a new AI world model that generates interactive simulations with visuals, movement, sound, and dialogue in real time. The company is initially making the system available as a research preview for selected trusted testers. Genie 4 builds on the earlier Genie 3 model and extends the length of generated experiences …
MacPaw has introduced Eney, an AI assistant for Mac and iPhone designed to monitor activity across apps, files, calendars, and system settings. The company says the assistant identifies tasks that may need attention, prepares a next step, and asks for approval before making changes. The product targets routine work that often requires moving among several …
Apple is adding a beta AI assistant to Keynote, Pages, Numbers, and Logic Pro, expanding generative AI features across its productivity and creative software. Emma Roth reports for The Verge that the assistant combines models from Apple and OpenAI and can use the context of an open document or project to complete tasks. In Keynote, …
Google has unveiled Gemini 4 Carbon, a new frontier AI model designed for complex software engineering and cybersecurity work. Koray Kavukcuoglu announces the model in an official Google blog post, describing it as the company’s strongest model so far for cybersecurity and long-running tasks. The company says Carbon ranks first on version 5.0 of Artificial …
Generative AI is reshaping not only how cultural work is produced, but also what audiences may value in it. As AI-generated music, writing, images, and video become harder to distinguish from human work, creators could benefit from a growing “human premium.” Ros Atkins writes for BBC News that many people still care whether art comes …