Disney sent a cease-and-desist to ByteDance after the company’s Seedance 2.0 model produced AI versions of Disney characters, even as it took a different approach when OpenAI’s Sora did something similar. One viral clip—an AI-made Wolverine-versus-Thanos sequence created with Seedance 2.0—garnered over 142,000

The battle for enterprise AI is intensifying as Microsoft bundles Copilot into Office, Google pushes Gemini into Workspace, and firms like OpenAI and Anthropic sell directly to companies. With every SaaS vendor shipping an AI assistant, Glean is focusing on a less visible play: building the intelligence layer beneath the

Autonomous vehicles have a lot of potential. If they are programmed correctly, they will not speed, break traffic laws, or become drunk, high, abusive, or violent. The technology has grown more capable even as some of the early hype faded and some companies fell by the wayside. Waymo remains the

OpenAI announced a research preview of GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark, a smaller version of GPT-5.3-Codex built for real-time coding in Codex. The company describes it as generating code 15 times faster while "remaining highly capable for real-world coding tasks." Spark will initially be available only to $200/mo Pro

A 2016 clip from the documentary 10 Years with Hayao Miyazaki shows the filmmaker reacting with disgust to a demo of AI that animated a zombie to move with its head. Nobuo Kawakami, a Studio Ghibli producer, explained the zombie couldn't feel pain; Miyazaki said, "Whoever creates

A major upgrade to Gemini 3 Deep Think, a specialized reasoning mode for science, research and engineering, has been released. The update was developed in collaboration with scientists and researchers to tackle problems that often lack clear guardrails and involve messy or incomplete data. Google AI Ultra subscribers can access

OpenAI is rolling out an age verification program for ChatGPT and says the service can often verify users from signals already linked to their accounts, such as the general topics they discuss or the times of day they use the tool. The company acknowledges the system is not perfect and

OpenAI has disbanded a team that had been tasked with communicating the company’s mission to employees and the public. The group, formed in September 2024, was dedicated to promoting the company’s stated mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. OpenAI said the team’s

Software engineers are getting crushed by AI. The technology's ability to automate code is making developers both more productive and overworked; one technologist lamented that "AI fatigue" is real. Software veteran Steve Yegge predicts AI will eventually lead Big Tech to cut 50% of their engineers.

xAI held its first all-hands since merging with SpaceX in a recorded event that was later posted on X. Elon Musk outlined a new organizational structure centered on the main Grok product and separate teams for Grok Voice, Grok Code, Grok Imagine, and the company's Macrohard project. The

ChatGPT has evolved into a full-featured chat app, and many useful controls live in its settings. On desktop you access them by tapping your account name in the lower-left corner; the Personalization and Settings menu items open the same panel, with Settings landing on the General tab and Personalization opening

Alexa+ is now available for all Alexa users in the US. The upgrade brings generative AI to Amazon’s voice assistant, offering a more natural cadence, the ability to handle multiple prompts in a single query, and content generation instead of canned responses. Prime members get Alexa+ at no extra

Amazon is considering a marketplace where publishers could license their content directly to AI companies. The company has been meeting with publishing executives and circulated slides ahead of an AWS conference that mention a content marketplace. An Amazon spokesperson didn’t deny the plans, offering this statement: "Amazon has

As the workforce ages and AI changes how work gets done, labor supply is tightening and skill requirements are shifting. Most jobs will see gradual, AI-driven transformations rather than wholesale replacement or disruption. Organizations that invest in helping workers adapt alongside AI as roles evolve will be better positioned to

StackBlitz CEO Eric Simons says the software startup has "gone all in" on AI agents and aims to have more agents than human employees this year. The company has deployed internally built systems across business intelligence, coding, product development, customer support, and outbound sales. He describes a future

Early in the new year, millions of people logging into Google Mail found Gemini summarizing their emails with no practical way to turn it off. The move echoed Google’s earlier introduction of AI Overviews in search results, again without an opt-out, and resembled Meta’s deployment of Meta AI

If your Pixel is running low on space, disabling the AICore app can reclaim as much as 10GB. This is one quick way to clear storage on devices such as the Pixel 9 Pro without deleting photos or videos. AICore hosts self‑contained AI models like Gemini Nano that power

New York-based cybersecurity startup Reco raised $30 million in a Series B round led by Zeev Ventures, with participation from existing investors Insight Partners and Boldstart Ventures. New corporate investors for this round include Workday Ventures, TIAA Ventures, S Ventures, and Quadrille Capital. The company said growth climbed 500% year-over-year

Moments before joining a Zoom call, Eline Van der Velden, the creator of the controversial “AI actress” Tilly Norwood, received a death threat and called the police to file a report. “They say there’s no humanity behind it, and then they go after the human behind it. It’s

Google says a hacking group reportedly based out of North Korea has developed a "new tooling and AI-enabled social engineering" scam that combines deepfakes, spoofed Zoom calls and a malicious troubleshooting program. The campaign begins with a hacked account sending a Zoom link via a calendar invite to

Businesses generate far more video than they use, leaving years of broadcast archives, store footage and production material unwatched as so-called dark data. Two former Googlers, Aza Kai and Hiraku Yanagita, launched Tokyo-based InfiniMind to convert petabytes of unviewed video and audio into structured, queryable business data. Kai says earlier

As we move through 2026, the fourth year of generative AI’s current wave, agentic AI reshaped how I work. Agentic coding tools such as Gemini Jules, Claude Code, and OpenAI Codex can now write entire programs; I tested Codex and Claude Code by building WordPress security add-ons and a

Runway’s Motion Sketch turns simple doodles drawn over a still image into short animated clips. In one example a text-generated image of a settler family and a herd of bison became a five-second scene of the group running as winged creatures flew overhead; the clip had surreal imperfections, including

Last week's software-led tech rout served as a reminder that AI hype is not lifting every stock, and investors should focus on careful stock picking as winners and losers emerge. Futurum Group CEO Daniel Newman described the sell-off as a "healthy, overdue rotation and a market demanding

Helen Qu (Flatiron Institute) will build a decoder-only transformer (GPT-style) from scratch in PyTorch, train it on Tiny Shakespeare for character-level language modeling, and generate text. Topics covered include self-attention as a learned, data-dependent mixing operator; causal (masked) self-attention for autoregressive modeling; building a GPT-style Transformer block from scratch; token