Social media sites have been flooded with false information in the of Sunday’s terror attack that killed 15 people and wounded dozens more at a Hanukkah celebration in Bondi Beach, Australia. One AI-generated image in particular has become extremely popular among people who are spreading disinformation on X. It’s a photo-realistic image made to look […]
Is OpenAI Entering Its Acquisition Era?
OpenAI has been on a hiring spree. Will it lead to an acquiring spree? On Monday, the company reportedly poached Google’s senior director of corporate development Albert Lee. The executive led corporate development for Google Cloud and DeepMind for more than 14 years, and oversaw dozens of top acquisitions worth more than $50 billion in […]
Investors are Using the Same Tool as ‘The Big Short’ Guys to Hedge Against an AI Bubble
If you remember the film “The Big Short” (or, more likely, get served 60-second clips of it regularly on YouTube Shorts), then you’ll probably remember the term “credit default swap.” It’s the tool that Michael Burry—who, notably, is currently shorting some major tech stocks—and others used to bet against the housing market. That same tool […]
LG TVs Get Unremovable Microsoft Copilot App
AI is everywhere, including places that no one wants it. The latest example of the technology’s proliferation being forced down users’ throats, likely in the name of artificially inflating growth metrics, appears to be LG brand smart TVs. Tom’s Hardware spotted a number of owners taking to Reddit to complain about the fact that their […]
Nvidia Wants To Be Your Open Source Model Provider
It seems that chips dominance isn’t enough for Nvidia. The tech giant wants its products to be present at every level of the AI development ecosystem, and its got its eyes on open-source AI models. Nvidia released its latest Nemotron 3 family of open models on Monday, only months after announcing the first iteration at […]
How the Biggest Monopoly in AI Is Keeping Its Throne in 2026 and Beyond
As a new Bloomberg profile of the Dutch lithography giant ASML points out, the global economy is counting on one monopoly’s ability to shoot lasers at tin droplets again, but do it even better this time. To be clear, the legal theory on monopolies doesn’t say everyone who corners a market is a villain. If […]
Google Has Taken Down AI-Generated Content Following Disney’s Cease and Desist
Google has bowed to a cease and desist order from Disney, according to the showbiz trade publications Deadline and Variety, and taken down some unknown number of AI videos featuring Disney intellectual property. Both publications estimate “dozens,” suggesting a fairly targeted effort. A deal between Disney and OpenAI—Google’s fiercest AI rival—was announced Thursday that sees […]
Wall Street Sphincters Tighten as Oracle Delays Its OpenAI Data Center Buildout
It turns out infinite growth might not actually be possible. On Friday, Bloomberg reported that Oracle will be delaying some of its data center projects for OpenAI for at least a year due to labor and material shortages. Wall Street, which is definitely not extremely nervous about the sustainability of an economy entirely propped up […]
OpenAI Drops GPT-5.2 Amid Its ‘Code Red’ Freak Out
As was expected, on Thursday, OpenAI pushed out the latest update to its flagship AI model after CEO Sam Altman declared a “code red” within the company. The new release, GPT-5.2, is described by Altman as “the smartest generally-available model in the world, and in particular is good at doing real-world knowledge work tasks.” The […]
ChatGPT’s ‘Adult Mode’ Is Coming in 2026
OpenAI announced the latest version of its flagship AI model, GPT-5.2, on Thursday in response to its ongoing attempt to keep up with its competitors. And while GPT-5.2 reportedly performs well in most benchmark tests, there’s one metric that OpenAI did not provide details on: how horny is it? It looks like we’ll find that […]