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Starting August 2, 2026, the transparency obligations of the EU AI Act will apply, and this of course affects you as a content professional, if you are based in the EU. However, various pieces of misinformation are circulating about this law. For instance, just the other day I saw the claim that soon, all AI-generated …
Walmart is rolling out artificial intelligence tools across its operations, promising its 2.1 million employees that the technology will transform how they work rather than reduce how many are employed. Gregory Meyer reports for the Financial Times from the company’s annual Associates Week gathering in Arkansas, where executives made the case for AI as a …
Generative AI systems, including large language models and image generators, are fundamentally incapable of true scientific discovery. Richard Sutton writes on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. Sutton is one of the most influential researchers in the history of artificial intelligence and a pioneer of reinforcement learning. His core argument is straightforward: generative AI …
Apple appears poised to take the lead in consumer artificial intelligence, not by building the most advanced AI technology, but by making it the easiest to use. M.G. Siegler writes for Spyglass that the company’s newly announced “Siri AI,” demonstrated at its annual developer conference WWDC, could bring AI into the mainstream in a way …
Moderators of the popular subreddit r/biohackers have banned standalone posts about peptides and hormone replacement therapy (HRT) after discovering that companies in those industries were systematically spamming the community to manipulate AI chatbot responses. Jason Koebler reports for 404 Media that the tactic is part of a broader activity, often known as Generative Engine Optimization …
Americans are increasingly mobilizing against data centers, the large warehouse-style facilities that power AI and much of the modern internet. Marina Bolotnikova writes for Vox that this grassroots revolt reflects deep anxiety about artificial intelligence rather than genuine ecological concern. A recent Gallup poll found that 70 percent of Americans would oppose a data center …
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman toured the company’s Stargate data center in Saline, Michigan, and spoke about surging demand for AI compute, the future of work, and the risks of a global AI race. David Faber reports for CNBC in an exclusive interview conducted at the site. A $45 billion bet on AI demand The Stargate …
OpenAI and Anthropic appear to have crossed a critical threshold: their AI coding agents are generating substantial revenue, and both companies have quietly restructured their pricing to capture it. Simon Willison writes for his weblog that the two leading AI labs have found product-market fit, driven by a shift toward enterprise customers paying full API …
A model update to ChatGPT reshuffled nearly half of all source citations in German-language answers within 48 hours, behaving like a Google core update for generative AI. Johannes Beus reports for Sistrix that the switch from GPT-5 mini to GPT-5.5 on 23 May 2026 caused a 47 percent shift in which domains ChatGPT cited, based …
Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai has defended his company’s AI-driven transformation of Search while acknowledging growing publisher concerns about vanishing web traffic. Nilay Patel posts for The Verge’s Decoder podcast an in-depth conversation with Pichai after Google’s annual I/O developer conference, covering everything from internal restructuring to the timeline for artificial general intelligence (AGI). …