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The proliferation of artificial intelligence is leading to a collapse of trust in digital communication, particularly in sales and marketing. Author Arnon Shimoni writes that the near-zero cost of creating content has flooded inboxes and social media with AI-generated messages. This makes it almost impossible for people to distinguish genuine human outreach from automated communication. …
The nonprofit Common Crawl Foundation is supplying AI companies with copyrighted news articles scraped from behind paywalls, enabling firms like OpenAI and Google to train their large language models on high-quality journalism. The organization publicly states that it only collects freely available content. Alex Reisner reports for The Atlantic that this claim is false. According …
Google’s new image generator, officially named Gemini 3 Pro Image, fundamentally changes how AI creates visuals. Instead of immediately generating a result from a prompt, the model first enters a “Thinking Mode” to reason, critique, and correct its own plan. Stephen Smith writes in Intelligence by Intent that this new approach marks a significant shift. …
Researchers at Google have introduced a new AI paradigm called “Nested Learning” to address a major weakness in current large language models (LLMs). Ben Dickson reports for VentureBeat that this approach could enable AI systems to learn and update their knowledge continuously after their initial training. Today’s LLMs are largely static. Their knowledge is limited …
Microsoft is encountering significant pushback from security experts and users regarding its strategy of integrating advanced artificial intelligence into its Windows operating system. The criticism centers on a new experimental feature called Copilot Actions, which Microsoft itself has warned could expose users to malware and data theft. The company introduced Copilot Actions as a set …
A startup with just eight employees is using artificial intelligence to generate 3,000 podcast episodes each week. The company, Inception Point AI, has already published over 175,000 AI-generated episodes on platforms like Spotify and Apple. Tess Patton reports for The Wrap that the company’s podcast network, Quiet Please, has achieved 12 million downloads and attracted …
Financial documents from artificial intelligence startups Anthropic and OpenAI reveal two vastly different business strategies. Berber Jin reports for The Wall Street Journal that Anthropic is on a path to become profitable much faster than its larger rival by taking a more cautious approach to growth. The documents, which were shared with investors, show that …
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, views artificial intelligence as a technology that could fulfill his long-held vision of a machine-readable web. In an interview on The Verge’s Decoder podcast, he expresses concern about how AI companies currently operate and the potential consequences for the open web. Berners-Lee explains that while …
Widely used tests to measure artificial intelligence capabilities may be fundamentally flawed and oversell AI performance, according to a new study from the Oxford Internet Institute. Researchers examined 445 benchmarks that AI developers use to evaluate their models and found significant methodological problems. Jared Perlo reports for NBC News that roughly half of the benchmarks …
OpenAI’s Atlas and Perplexity’s Comet pose new challenges for publishers trying to control AI access to their content. These AI browsers can retrieve paywalled articles that traditional AI interfaces cannot access, the Columbia Journalism Review reports. The browsers succeed because they appear identical to human users in website logs. While automated crawlers identify themselves with …