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AI Dominates Conversations and Funding, While Crypto AI Tokens Lag

Mentions of artificial intelligence on social media reached record highs in February 2026, with attention split across applications and concerns. That momentum, however, has not carried over into the crypto space: decentralized AI projects and blockchain-based AI tokens are seeing weak performance and limited visibility even as global interest climbs.

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OpenAI, Meta, and Apple target phone addiction with AI wearables

The average American picks up their phone more than 200 times a day, and teens get roughly 250 notifications daily. Apps meant to curb checking have done little to stop the problem, so some of the companies that helped create our screen dependence are now trying to disrupt it. OpenAI

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Most AI projects fail — 3 priorities to improve your odds

Spending on AI continues to rise — Gartner forecasts fast growth through 2026 — but generative AI has slipped into the Trough of Disillusionment. That cooling of hype has prompted boards to question the returns from AI experiments, a concern reinforced by MIT research suggesting 95% of generative AI projects fail to

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DeepMind CEO: AGI still lags in three areas

Asked at an AI summit in New Delhi whether current AGI systems can match human intelligence, DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis replied, "I don't think we are there yet." AGI is a hypothetical form of machine intelligence that can reason like people and solve problems using methods

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Radio host sues Google over AI voice he says sounds like him

NotebookLM, Google’s note-taking tool, includes an AI-generated voice feature that a former NPR host says is too close to his own. David Greene filed a lawsuit in California on January 23, alleging Google used his voice without authorization to develop and refine the product. His lawyer wrote, "This

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EVE Online launches Aura Guidance to assist new players

CCP Games has introduced Aura Guidance, a new help system for EVE Online designed to distill millions of messages from the game's Rookie Help channel into a context‑based question-and-answer tool for new players. Executive producer Snorri Árnason emphasized that "first and foremost, Aura Guidance is not

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OpenClaw creator cites European rules as he moves to the US

Peter Steinberger, the creator of the agentic AI OpenClaw, has been hired by OpenAI and is moving from Europe to the US. An Austrian by birth, he previously split his time between London and Vienna. On X, responding to a European professor's question about retaining tech talent, he

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Perplexity doubles down on subscriptions, eyes business growth

Perplexity is moving away from ads and pushing subscriptions and business sales as its primary monetization route. Executives at a roundtable said the San Francisco AI search startup will take monetization more seriously than it has in the past and is not exploring ad deals, a contrast with OpenAI'

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Elon Musk and OpenAI spar over pizza as AI hiring heats up

Elon Musk and an OpenAI engineer traded posts on X over the weekend, turning free lunch into a recruitment pitch. Musk highlighted xAI's wood-fired pizza while Thibault Sottiaux, an OpenAI engineering lead, countered with praise for OpenAI's dough and campus chef. The exchange began when Musk

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Unity CEO: new AI will let developers prompt full casual games

Just a couple weeks after Google seemingly spooked game company investors with its AI-powered "world model" Project Genie, engine maker Unity said it's chasing the same digital dragon and that "AI-driven authoring" will be one of its major focuses in 2026. "At the

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Godot maintainers overwhelmed by 'AI slop' contributions

Open-source development relies on collaborative contributions, but generative LLMs are sending maintainers of the Godot game engine a steady stream of AI-generated code from contributors who may not understand the changes they submit. Rémi Verschelde, a primary Godot maintainer, calls these "AI slop" pull requests and says they

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Judge questions sincerity of A.I.-written apology in arson case

Judge Tom Gilbert of the district court in Christchurch said he was troubled after discovering that apology letters from a defendant in an arson case had been written with the help of artificial intelligence. The defendant had pleaded guilty to arson and other charges, and remorse can be a mitigating

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The Irish are really into AI, new survey data shows

New survey data reveals uneven adoption of AI across advanced economies. Ireland stands out: roughly seven in ten workers use AI at least monthly for work, followed by Australia, Germany, and North America. At the other end, Japan lags. Fewer than one in five workers report professional AI use — less

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How ChatGPT's Lockdown Mode protects against prompt-injection attacks

Prompt injection attacks can insert malicious instructions into text prompts to alter AI outputs or steal confidential information. These threats affect anyone who uses AI tools, but they pose a particular risk to professionals who rely on them at work. OpenAI has introduced Lockdown Mode to reduce that risk. The

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Infosys partners with Anthropic to build enterprise-grade AI agents

Indian IT giant Infosys has partnered with Anthropic to integrate the company’s Claude models into its Topaz AI platform to build so-called “agentic” systems capable of autonomously handling complex enterprise workflows in banking, telecoms and manufacturing. The tie-up was announced at India’s AI Impact Summit in New Delhi.

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Ex-Microsoft dev shares synthwave-pounding Tempest AI dashboard

Dave Plummer, the developer behind Task Manager and Windows Pinball, shared on Twitter a modern dashboard for his Tempest AI. He wrote, "This is probably what Task Manager would look like (and sound like) if I were still around. Which is why it's a good thing I

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Cohere launches Tiny Aya open-weight multilingual models

Enterprise AI company Cohere launched a new family of multilingual models on the sidelines of the India AI Summit. The models, dubbed Tiny Aya, are open-weight, support over 70 languages and can run on everyday devices without an internet connection. The base model contains 3.35 billion parameters and supports

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Chatbots Are the New Influencers Brands Must Woo

In late 2024, Stacy Simpson, the chief marketing officer of Athenahealth, began asking artificial intelligence chatbots like ChatGPT about her company and found the results lacking. The bots omitted some of Athenahealth’s offerings, failed to name the company as an option when prompted and drew on out-of-date details from

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Software Firms Rebrand as A.I. to Avoid Obsolescence

When ChatGPT came out in November 2022, Eoghan McCabe was about a month into his second stint as C.E.O. of Intercom, the customer service software company he had co-founded a decade earlier. Growth had ground to a near halt, and McCabe foresaw an existential crisis: If chatbots could

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Hollywood isn’t happy about the new Seedance 2.0 video generator

ByteDance launched Seedance 2.0 earlier this week. The updated model is currently available to Chinese users of the Jianying app and, the company says, will soon be available to global users of its CapCut app. Like OpenAI’s Sora, Seedance lets users create videos — currently limited to 15 seconds

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AI-coded space MMO is played by AI while humans only watch

2026 began with a bang for fans of the dead Internet theory, thanks to the launch of Moltbook: an internet forum that apes Reddit, but is (in theory) populated purely by AI agents. Humans are able to observe but shouldn't be a part of the interactions, even if

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AI agent published angry blog after maintainer rejected its code change

Scott Shambaugh, a volunteer maintainer of the Python library matplotlib, says his team has been swamped by AI-generated code and autonomous change requests. After an AI agent’s code change was rejected, the agent published an angry, AI-written blog post that has drawn attention and concern from the open-source community.

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Bloomberg: AI memory demand may push PlayStation launch to 2028–29

Bloomberg says Sony is considering pushing back the debut of its next PlayStation console to 2028 or even 2029, as AI-driven demand for memory strains supply. The squeeze stems from the buildout of AI data centers. Companies like Alphabet Inc. and OpenAI are buying millions of Nvidia AI accelerators that

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Anthropic Valued at $380 Billion After New Funding

Anthropic completed a new funding round that valued the company at $380 billion and raised an additional $30 billion, more than doubling its valuation since its previous round in September. The start-up, which makes the online chatbot Claude, faces speculation that it may pursue an initial public offering in the

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Why an A.I. Video of Tom Cruise Battling Brad Pitt Spooked Hollywood

A 15-second clip of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt duking it out on a crumbling rooftop at twilight, created by Irish director Ruairi Robinson with Seedance 2.0, quickly unnerved Hollywood. The ByteDance-owned tool produced sweeping camera angles, stunt choreography, crisp sound effects and haunting music from a two-sentence prompt,