An analysis links violent AI ‘slop’ to ‘brain rot’ and violence in children

Awarning that AI “slop” is fuelling cognitive decline and violent tendencies in children has ricocheted across the internet this week, carried by headlines that present the harm as settled fact. T [...]

WWE Saturday Night's Main Event: How to watch John Cena's final match for free

John Cena began his WWE retirement tour back in January, and it's coming to an end this weekend when the wrestling legend headlines WWE Saturday Night's Main Event. For the last fight of his [...]

Why most enterprise AI coding pilots underperform (Hint: It's not the model)

Gen AI in software engineering has moved well beyond autocomplete. The emerging frontier is agentic coding: AI systems capable of planning changes, executing them across multiple steps and iterating b [...]

Fallout Season 2 review: Viva New Vegas

The follow-up to a successful debut is often harder to make than the first, and that goes double when the inspiration for a show comes from the most beloved installment of the underlying franchise. Th [...]

Booksellers fear their rarest books are being pulped to feed AI. The trail leads to a ‘recycler’.

We have written about why AI companies are buying up old books: printed before the internet filled with machine-made text, they are a clean source of language, free of AI slop. This is what that hunge [...]

Alibaba to ban Claude Code over alleged backdoor risk, source says

The workplace ban, starting July 10, lands weeks after Anthropic accused operators linked to Alibaba’s Qwen lab of running the largest known distillation campaign against Claude. Alibaba will bar it [...]

Elon Musk wants any damages from his OpenAI lawsuit given to the AI company's nonprofit arm

Elon Musk is still taking OpenAI to court over its transition to a for-profit company, but today he amended the complaint so that he won't personally get any of the $150 billion in damages he [...]

The FTC is reportedly investigating Instacart over its AI pricing tool

The Federal Trade Commission has sent Instacart a civil investigative demand, seeking information about its AI-powered pricing tool, according to Reuters. This comes after a recently published pricing [...]

Google's Project Genie lets you generate your own interactive worlds

This past summer, Google DeepMind debuted Genie 3. It’s what’s known as a world world, an AI system capable of generating images and reacting as the user moves through the environment the software [...]