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

When Olivia Dreizen Howell was accused of sounding like an AI chatbot, she pushed back. The Instagram post she shared the day after Christmas about the post-holiday emotional crash drew a public comment alleging it was AI generated; Howell said it was not and that she felt attacked, clarifying she

When I was a student at Stanford, classmates raved about ChatGPT. I didn’t hear the name until my junior year, when friends said they had the AI “chat” summarize class readings; when I asked what they meant by “chat,” they explained ChatGPT. I was an English major with a

Anthropic is in the final stages of raising $20 billion in new capital at a $350 billion valuation, with investor demand pushing the company to seek twice the funding it had originally planned. The firm raised $13 billion in equity five months ago, and intense competition among frontier labs and

Writing a non-fiction book is often less about ideas and more about time, structure, and momentum. You know what you want to say, but turning that knowledge into a cohesive manuscript can feel overwhelming; Youbooks takes the overwhelm out of the equation. Youbooks is designed to help people finish books,

Artificial intelligence companies flooded the Super Bowl LX broadcast, running a wave of A.I.-themed commercials that may prove more memorable than the game itself. The surge in advertising underscored Big Tech’s recent spending spree and renewed questions about whether high-cost marketing buys will ease investor concerns. iSpot

Cybersecurity firm SlowMist found the official plugin marketplace for the open-source AI agent OpenClaw has been targeted by supply chain poisoning attacks. Malicious "skills" were uploaded to ClawHub and exploited weak or nonexistent review mechanisms, allowing harmful code to spread to users who install the plugins. SlowMist'

Crypto.com CEO Kris Marszalek has launched ai.com, a site that lets users create personal AI agents to perform everyday tasks. The ai.com commercial aired during Super Bowl 60 on NBC to promote the platform’s beta; users can register ai.com username handles and then wait in

Goose, an open-source agent framework from Jack Dorsey's Block, combined with the coding-focused Qwen3-coder model, promises a completely free alternative to paid offerings like Claude Code. This is the first of three pieces that walks through getting Goose, the Ollama LLM server, and Qwen3-coder running locally and shares

The generative AI world is changing fast and the variety of model names—GPT-5.2, Opus 4.5, Gemini 3—can be bewildering. Rather than memorise versions, it helps to match models to tasks. Different applications use different underlying models, much like vehicles use different engines. For example, ChatGPT’s

Asif Saleem, a Google lead for financial services in Japan and the Asia Pacific, introduced his 13-year-old son Usman and 18-year-old daughter Shanzey to AI after returning from a demo. Their interest grew quickly, and they enrolled in a vibe coding course together. Saleem had joined "Code with AI&

Following last year’s trend, Super Bowl advertisers leaned into AI both to create commercials and to promote new products, making the technology as much a star as trailers and snack brands. This year’s spots delivered robots, AI glasses and even a bit of drama involving tech founders. Svedka

Tesla argues autonomous driving can work with cameras the way humans use their eyes. Ashok Elluswamy, Tesla's vice president of AI, said, "It should be solved with cameras just like how every other human or animal lives around this world," adding, "Self-driving problem is thought

The "996" work schedule—working six days a week from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.—has been well established in China and is starting to take hold in San Francisco, two AI researchers said on Lex Fridman's podcast. They warned the model is contributing

The US Army is betting that artificial intelligence can reduce the paperwork that weighs on recruiters, equipment maintainers, and inventory specialists. Leaders describe AI as just the visible part of a broader push that also needs redesigned workflows and better data integration to modernize how the service operates. Recruiters are

OpenAI founder Andrej Karpathy marked the first anniversary of 'vibe-coding' by introducing a new term: 'agentic engineering.' He defines vibe-coding as prompting AI to write code and describes agentic engineering as AI agents writing the code themselves. "Many people have tried to come up with

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Chief Marketing Officer Kate Rouch took to X after rival AI lab Anthropic released four commercials, two slated to run during the Super Bowl, that mock the idea of placing ads in AI chatbot conversations. The campaign landed just weeks after the ChatGPT maker began

Anthropic and OpenAI this week released products that recast AI from a single conversation partner into a supervised workforce of agents. The idea is that developers and knowledge workers will dispatch tasks, monitor parallel threads, and step in when an agent needs direction. The approach is unproven: current agents still

Marshall Kools shares an apartment in NoPa with two roommates, sleeps in a nook beneath the stairs, owns only a Giorgio Armani dress shirt and plays Sade’s "Love Deluxe" on repeat. At 24, he co-founded a start-up that aims to use A.I. to streamline white-collar administrative