SCRVal Kilmer will appear in the upcoming film “As Deep as the Grave” through generative AI, despite never having filmed a single scene before his death in 2025. Coerte Voorhees reports for Variety that the late actor was originally cast as Father Fintan, a Catholic priest and Native American spiritualist, but throat cancer prevented him …
The UK government has abandoned its plan to let AI companies use copyrighted works without explicit permission. Graham Fraser reports for the BBC that the original proposal would have allowed an opt-out system, meaning creators would have needed to actively prevent AI firms from using their work for model training. Technology Secretary Liz Kendall announced …
Large language models can build apps, predict protein structures and generate realistic videos. But they consistently fail at one fundamental human skill: writing well. Jasmine Sun reports for The Atlantic that modern AI systems are structurally built in ways that actively work against good writing. And that is quite surprising: Today’s most powerful AI models …
Small online publishers are suffering the steepest decline in search-driven web traffic as artificial intelligence transforms how people find information online. Axios reports that small publishers, defined as those receiving between 1,000 and 10,000 daily page views, have lost 60% of their referral traffic from traditional search engines over the past two years. Medium-sized publishers …
Mistral AI has launched Forge, a platform that allows companies and governments to train custom AI models using their own proprietary data. The French AI startup announced the product at Nvidia’s GTC conference. Most enterprise AI tools today rely on fine-tuning or retrieval augmented generation (RAG), which adapt existing models at runtime without retraining them. …
Nvidia used its annual GTC conference in San Jose to announce a sweeping set of new products centered on a single idea: artificial intelligence is shifting from systems that answer questions to systems that act autonomously over long periods of time. Nearly every announcement at the event was designed around “agentic AI”. The centerpiece was …
OpenAI has released two new AI models, GPT-5.4 mini and GPT-5.4 nano. As the names suggest: Both are smaller and faster versions of the company’s flagship GPT-5.4 model, designed for high-volume tasks where speed and cost matter. According to OpenAI, GPT-5.4 mini runs more than twice as fast as its predecessor, GPT-5 mini, and shows …
Google is expanding Personal Intelligence, a feature that connects its AI services to apps like Gmail and Google Photos, to all users in the United States. The feature is now available in AI Mode in Search and is rolling out in the Gemini app and Gemini in Chrome for free-tier users. Personal Intelligence allows Gemini …
Mistral AI has released Mistral Small 4, a new open-source artificial intelligence model that combines reasoning, multimodal processing and coding capabilities in a single system. The company reports that users no longer need to switch between separate specialised models for different tasks. The model uses a Mixture of Experts architecture with 128 specialists, activating only …
The history of automation suggests that AI will not eliminate human labor entirely. Adam Ozimek writes for The Atlantic that past technological disruptions, from the player piano to recorded music, ultimately failed to wipe out the jobs they threatened. The player piano, invented in the 1890s, fully automated musical performance. Major composers like Igor Stravinsky …