Amazon strikes AI licensing deal with Hearst and Condé Nast

Digiday is reporting that media conglomerates Hearst and Condé Nast have signed multi-year licensing agreements with Amazon to allow its AI shopping assistant Rufus access to the vast library of cont [...]

Amazon signs multi-year deals with Condé Nast and Hearst to add editorial content to its Rufus AI

Amazon has secured multi-year licensing deals with Condé Nast and Hearst. Content from magazines like Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan, and Harper's Bazaar will be added to its AI shopping assist [...]

Perplexity will now show hotel information from TripAdvisor

TripAdvisor has entered into a partnership with Perplexity to offer a human touch to the AI company's hotel information. Through this deal, listings for hotel searches on Perplexity will now incl [...]

Google researchers introduce 'faithful uncertainty', allowing LLMs to offer best guesses instead of hallucinations

Large language models continue to struggle with hallucinations, presenting a major roadblock for real-world enterprise applications. Reducing these errors is a messy business, forcing model developers [...]

Forget typosquatting; slopsquatting is the software supply chain threat created by AI coding tools

Slopsquatting represents an emerging supply chain threat made possible by AI hallucinations. As developers increasingly rely on AI coding assistants, they unknowingly grant cybercriminals access to th [...]

Hackers say they have stolen 40 million Condé Nast Records - here's how to stay safe

A hacker claims to have good intentions - but do they, really? [...]

Condé Nast User database reportedly breached, Ars unaffected

A serious data breach has occurred, but Ars users have nothing to worry about. [...]

Major publishers sue AI startup Cohere over copyright infringement

Major publishers, including Politico and Vox, and their parent companies are suing the AI startup Cohere for copyright and trademark infringement, according to the Wall Street Journal. This is another [...]

GPT-5.3 Instant cuts hallucinations by 26.8% as OpenAI shifts focus from speed to accuracy

OpenAI's GPT-5.3 Instant — the company's most widely used model — reduces hallucinations by up to 26.8% compared to its predecessor, prioritizing accuracy and conversational reliability [...]