generative AI

Anthropic, OpenAI launch dueling models in AI price war

The generative AI industry's two leading labs released competing models within hours of each other on Tuesday, each built around the same pitch: frontier-level intelligence should cost less.

Cloudflare launches tool to block AI training without losing search visibility

Cloudflare on Tuesday rolled out new tools that let website owners block AI companies from training on their content without sacrificing visibility in search engines — resolving a tension that has plagued publishers since generative AI reshaped the economics of…

Microsoft exec who oversees Copilot calls AI slop a ‘doom loop’

Ryan Roslansky, a Microsoft executive vice president who oversees LinkedIn, Office, Teams, Outlook, and Copilot, publicly warned that AI-generated content is creating a "doom loop" in workplaces, where documents written by AI are summarized by AI without producing anything of…

Google launches Pics, an AI image editor for Workspace

Google Alphabet Inc. on Tuesday began rolling out Google Pics, a new AI-powered image creation and editing tool, to subscribers of its AI Pro and Ultra personal plans and most Workspace business customers. The launch marks the tool's move from…

Nepal asks Meta, TikTok to remove AI-generated flood content

As Nepal grapples with one of its deadliest natural disasters in recent memory, the government has turned its attention to a second crisis unfolding online: a flood of AI-generated videos, fraudulent donation schemes, and recycled footage from past disasters spreading…

Universal, Sony and Warner take equity in Stability AI’s $76M round

The world's three largest record companies have taken equity stakes in a generative AI company, marking a strategic pivot for an industry that has spent years fighting AI firms in court over copyright infringement.

OpenAI GPT-5.6 models expand to 25+ AWS Regions via Bedrock

Amazon Web Services Amazon.com, Inc. has launched cross-region inference for OpenAI's GPT-5.6 model family on Amazon Bedrock, expanding access to more than 25 AWS Regions worldwide. The announcement, made on August 17 and detailed in a technical blog post published…

Apple Music to require ‘Made With AI’ labels on songs

Apple Music announced Thursday that it will mandate "Made With AI" labels on songs created using generative artificial intelligence, making visible to listeners a tagging system that has operated behind the scenes since March 2026.

Pew study: A third of post-ChatGPT webpages show AI authorship

Over one-third of English-language webpages published since ChatGPT's November 2022 release show signs of AI authorship, according to a study released Thursday by Pew Research Center.

MIT study finds AI-generated images often can’t be traced to training data

A new study from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory has identified a phenomenon researchers call "attribution decay," finding that as AI image generators are trained on larger datasets, the influence of any individual training image becomes increasingly difficult…

Spotify to label AI-generated artists, cut them from recommendations

Spotify announced on August 11 that it will begin applying an "AI Persona" badge to artist profiles whose public identities appear to be generated by artificial intelligence, with the labels becoming visible to listeners in mid-September 2026. The move marks…

Twitch defaults all users into Amazon AI training using streams and chats

Twitch on Wednesday announced that it is using content from its platform — including livestreams, VODs, clips, and chat messages — to train Amazon's Amazon.com, Inc. generative AI models, with all users automatically opted in. The announcement, made via the…

Nvidia releases free open-source AI model for agents

Nvidia on Tuesday released Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a free, open-source AI model built for enterprise use that can run on a single GPU, alongside a new model routing tool called NeMo Switchyard designed to cut costs on AI workloads.

Anthropic adds invisible watermarks to Claude AI output

Anthropic has begun embedding invisible, machine-readable watermarks directly into text generated by its Claude AI models, a move driven by new transparency requirements under the European Union's AI Act. The company detailed the system in a support page published this…

Musicians rebel as labels license songs to AI without artist consent

The music industry is mounting a multi-front resistance against the unauthorized use of songs to train artificial intelligence, with major labels pushing to reshape chart eligibility rules and independent distributors arming artists with technical tools to shield their work.

OpenAI engineer says Google built a ChatGPT-like bot a year before OpenAI

An OpenAI engineer who previously worked at Google Alphabet Inc. has claimed the search giant developed a ChatGPT-like chatbot nearly a year before OpenAI's November 2022 launch but chose not to release it over fears it would cannibalize its search…

DeepSeek, MiniMax, ByteDance unveil new AI models on same day

DeepSeek on Friday launched the public beta of its V4-Flash model's official API, upgrading its agent capabilities and adding native support for the Responses API format and Codex compatibility. The release came as several other Chinese AI firms unveiled new…

Amazon uncovers ‘catastrophically expensive’ AI cost overruns

Amazon Amazon.com, Inc. has uncovered cases of runaway spending on internal AI projects, including one that exceeded its budget by 860% and went undetected for five months, according to a Financial Times report published Thursday.

PwC reports found riddled with AI hallucinations

PwC Middle East published four "thought leadership" reports riddled with AI-generated hallucinations, fabricated claims, and fake citations, according to an investigation by AI detection firm GPTZero published on Tuesday. The findings make PwC the last of the Big Four consulting…

Meta pilots StoryKit, an AI app for children’s stories

Meta Platforms has quietly released StoryKit, a new AI-powered mobile app that generates personalized children's bedtime stories complete with custom characters, illustrations, narration, and original music — all without requiring parents to write a single word. The app, first spotted…

Anthropic ends free Fable 5 access, shifts users to tiered pricing

Anthropic is restructuring how subscribers access its most powerful AI model, Claude Fable 5, ending months of extended promotional access and splitting its user base into tiers that push lower-paying customers toward pay-per-use pricing. The changes, which take effect today,…

Netflix says generative AI used in about 300 titles so far this year

Netflix disclosed on Thursday that generative AI has been used in roughly 300 titles on its platform this year, with the bulk of that work concentrated in post-production. The revelation came as part of the streaming company's second-quarter 2026 earnings…

Boko Haram using ChatGPT, other AI tools to plan attacks, Cambridge study finds

A new report from the Cambridge Programme on AI Science & Policy has revealed that Boko Haram fighters in Nigeria are actively using frontier AI models — including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok — to plan attacks, design explosive devices,…

Meta rolls out Muse Image AI model across its apps

Meta Platforms on Tuesday began rolling out Muse Image, a new image-generation model and the first such release from Meta Superintelligence Labs, as the company moves to compete more aggressively in the fast-expanding generative AI market.

Meta launches Pocket, a social app for AI-made mini-games

Meta has begun rolling out Pocket, a new social app that lets users create, share, and discover interactive mini-games through AI-powered text prompts, expanding the company's growing portfolio of standalone AI creation tools.

Google launches two AI models for fast image and video generation

Google Alphabet Inc. released two new AI media models on Tuesday, expanding its generative AI lineup with tools aimed at making image and video creation faster and cheaper for developers and consumers alike.

ByteDance launches Doubao 2.1 Pro, claims it beats Claude Opus 4.6

ByteDance unveiled its next-generation AI model family at the 2026 Volcano Engine FORCE conference on Tuesday, releasing Doubao 2.1 Pro and the broader Seed 2.1 lineup as the company pushes to dominate enterprise AI deployment in China and beyond.

Tencent begins testing AI assistant Xiaowei inside WeChat

Tencent confirmed on Monday that it has begun limited testing of a new AI assistant called Xiaowei inside WeChat, embedding artificial intelligence directly into China's dominant super app as the company works to close a gap with domestic rivals in…

Wikipedia won’t let AI edit articles, cofounder says

Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales said Monday that the platform will not permit artificial intelligence to directly edit its articles, citing persistent problems with AI-generated falsehoods that make the technology too unreliable for an encyclopedia relied upon by hundreds of millions…

Adobe report finds 75% of creators call AI essential

Adobe on Tuesday released the second edition of its Creators' Toolkit Report, a global survey of more than 16,000 content creators that found generative AI has crossed a threshold from novelty to standard practice. Among creators who use the technology,…