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Ben Affleck Used AI “For Lots of Things” in His New Netflix Movie ‘Animals’. Well, sure, when a platform pays like $600 million for your artificial intelligence company...
‘South Park’: Trump’s Animated Penis Flies Away In Deepfake Clip Roasting “Billionaire Of Weenietown” Amid Data Center Infestation. As the human race braces for possible extinction amid the AI age, South Park resurrected its deepfake Trump to roast the “billionaire of Weenietown.” On Wednesday’s episode, Butters discovers Billionaire Weenietown in his literal backyard, a tiny kingdom of anthropomorphic disembodied penises who are destroying South Park—still renamed South America this season—with their invasive data […].
Google releases Gemini 4 Argon, called its most powerful model yet. Google has released its latest Gemini model, marketing it as a workhorse for coding and cybersecurity work.
Valor, Atreides, and Sequoia back AI startup Flow Engineering at $750M valuation. Flow Engineering, which is bringing AI agents to hardware design, also landed Roelof Botha as an angel investor and board member.
Google announces Gemini 4 Argon AI model, but you can't use it yet. So much for Gemini 3.5 Pro.
RFK Jr. thinks AI will free us from the "tyranny" of medical facts, expertise. AI is far from a perfect resource. But it seems to hallucinate less than Kennedy.
OpenAI’s Jev clone could help the frontier lab stop its swarming agents. OpenAI's "Decisions API" is a Jev clone that confirms the importance of fast, cheap intelligence.
Trump plan to combat AI risks hinges on Big Tech pals policing themselves. Trump gets dozens of AI firms to agree to voluntary safety tests.
"An AI did it" is no defense, says nonprofit suing OpenAI over Hugging Face hack. OpenAI makes others suffer "the harms of its unsafe decision-making," nonprofit says.
AI voice startup ElevenLabs doubles valuation to $22B. The $300 million employee tender was co-led by Wellington and T. Rowe Price.
Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots. Reddit is ending support for RSS feeds, as the company continues tightening access to its trove of user-generated content.
The ugly economics of consumer AI. There’s a reason frontier labs have gotten gun-shy about consumer AI — and it’s not because the tech isn’t good enough.
Meta disputes claim that Muse read a user’s private messages without permission. Meta says its Muse AI agent cannot access a user’s Messages without explicit permission, disputing a journalist’s account that the agent read his private messages while the required Mac setting was turned off.
Google's early attempt to pay websites for AI answers is struggling. Many sites see just one-tenth of one percent of their advertising revenue from AI payments.
DoorDash launches an AI agent you can text to order food. By launching an AI agent for food ordering, DoorDash is looking to gain an edge over rivals Uber Eats and Grubhub.
Google figures out how to watermark AI-designed proteins. Intended to help with biosecurity, it works with a popular AI protein design tool.