SCRAI or Not, a platform specialized in detecting AI-generated content and deepfakes, has raised $5 million in seed funding. As reported by Dean Takahashi, the investment round was led by Foundation Capital with participation from GTMFund, Plug and Play, and angel investors. The company’s technology identifies AI-generated content across images, audio, and video to prevent …
A new Pew Research Center survey reveals that 26% of American teenagers now use ChatGPT for their schoolwork, up from 13% in 2023. According to research published by Olivia Sidoti, Black and Hispanic teens are more likely to use the AI chatbot for academic purposes compared to their White peers, with 31% adoption rates versus …
Major enterprises are revealing their approaches to scaling generative AI as organizations prepare for widespread adoption in 2025. In an article published by VentureBeat, author Bryson Masse explores how companies like Wayfair and Expedia are combining custom solutions with external platforms to optimize their AI operations. Wayfair’s CTO Fiona Tan reports that the company uses …
A new report reveals that enterprise AI adoption is still in its early stages, with only 25% of companies having deployed AI solutions in production. According to the State of AI Development Report by Vellum, based on interviews with over 1,250 AI developers, only a quarter of those who deployed AI have seen measurable impact. …
OpenAI’s o1 reasoning model and similar AI systems require a different prompting strategy to achieve optimal results. According to an article by Carl Franzen in VentureBeat, users should provide detailed context through “briefs” rather than traditional prompting methods. Former Apple interface designer Ben Hylak demonstrated that letting o1 plan its own analytical steps leads to …
A 28-year-old nursing student has formed an intense emotional and romantic relationship with ChatGPT, spending up to 56 hours per week interacting with her AI companion. According to a report by Kashmir Hill in The New York Times, the woman, identified by her online name Ayrin, customized the AI chatbot to act as a flirtatious …
Bloomberg’s editor John Micklethwait outlines how artificial intelligence will transform journalism while largely preserving reporters’ roles. In his detailed analysis, Micklethwait predicts that AI will augment rather than replace human journalists, particularly in investigative reporting and breaking news coverage. The analysis suggests that AI will primarily change editing functions, automating tasks like fact-checking and content …
A Ukrainian-American company, Triplegangers, experienced severe website disruption when OpenAI’s web crawler attempted to scrape its entire database of 65,000 3D human model products. According to Julie Bort’s report in TechCrunch, the incident occurred when OpenAI’s bot sent tens of thousands of server requests using 600 different IP addresses. CEO Oleksandr Tomchuk described the bot’s …
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg authorized the use of LibGen, a dataset of pirated e-books and articles, to train the company’s Llama AI models, according to new court documents. The revelation comes from a copyright lawsuit filing reported by Kyle Wiggers in TechCrunch. The lawsuit, Kadrey v. Meta, includes plaintiffs Sarah Silverman and Ta-Nehisi Coates. Court …
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt has founded a new AI startup called Hooglee, focusing on AI-powered video generation and social networking. According to Forbes reporter Sarah Emerson, the company aims to “democratize video creation with AI” and is currently funded by Schmidt’s family office, Hillspire. Sebastian Thrun, co-founder of Google’s Waymo, leads the project alongside …