Newsletter platform beehiiv has integrated Cloudflare’s AI Crawl Control tool directly into its dashboard, giving writers a straightforward way to decide whether AI crawlers can access their content. Duncan Riley reports for SiliconANGLE that the feature is rolling out to beehiiv’s roughly 135,000 publishers starting today. Until now, blocking AI bots meant editing robots.txt files …
Samsung Electronics is rolling out ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to a large portion of its global workforce. OpenAI writes that the agreement covers all Samsung Electronics employees in Korea and all employees in its Device eXperience (DX) division worldwide. The company describes the deployment as one of its largest enterprise launches ever. Samsung plans to …
OpenAI used its debut at the Cannes Lions advertising festival to pitch ChatGPT as a new kind of ad platform, one built around user intent rather than keyword targeting. Peter Adams reports for Marketing Dive. The company told brand marketers and agencies that digital advertising is shifting from an attention economy to what it calls …
Researchers at the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have developed a framework called Self-Harness that allows AI agents to automatically rewrite the rules governing their own behavior. Ben Dickson reports for VentureBeat that the system delivered performance improvements of between 33 and 60 percent on a standard benchmark. The key concept here is the “harness”: the …
Google is developing an AI startup incubator aimed specifically at former employees, known as “Xooglers.” Ana-Maria Stanciuc reports for The Next Web, citing Bloomberg, that the initiative would give Google an early foothold in ventures founded by people who already know the company’s tools and models. The incubator would sit alongside two existing programmes. Google …
ByteDance has confirmed the name and launch window for its next AI video generation model. Ryan Merket reports for RuntimeWire that Seedance 2.5 is set to arrive in early July, bringing three notable upgrades over its predecessor: native 30-second single-shot video output, a dramatically expanded capacity for reference materials, and improved tools for controlling and …
Google DeepMind and the acclaimed film studio A24 are launching a research partnership designed to put AI tools directly into the hands of filmmakers. The collaboration pairs one of the world’s leading AI labs with a studio known for its creator-first approach. Google reports the initiative in its official blog, while Steven Zeitchik writes for …
A collage of roughly 220 Amazon book covers reveals a hidden pattern in the flood of AI generated nonfiction. The covers, all discovered by searching for “100,000 whys”, look deceptively normal. Yet their eerie similarity exposes the telltale footprint of large language models. Security researcher and writer Michał Zalewski presents the collage on his blog …
A San Francisco marketing agency copied the entire contents of a bestselling book, replaced its original artwork with AI-generated images, and launched a website that now outranks the official page in search results. Andy Baio writes on Waxy.org that the agency, Qontour, built the unauthorized platform for John Koenig’s “The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows” without …
Seattle startup Gradial has raised $65 million in Series C funding to fuel its vision of a unified AI operating system for enterprise marketing, Kerry Flynn reports for Axios. The company builds AI agents that automate workflows across the dozens of specialized tools large marketing teams already rely on, including Adobe, Salesforce, ServiceNow and Databricks. …