The new Instagram logo is the perfect embodiment of AI slop
Opinion: Some remarks about the new wordmark accidentally being perfectly awful.
Aurich Lawson
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AI // Open the pod doors
Google announces Gemini 3.7 Flash just three weeks after previous release
Gemini 3.6 Flash debuted just 3 weeks ago, but Google says 3.7 has “substantial improvements.”
Ryan Whitwam
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Anthropic could be worth $2 trillion when it goes public
Rapid revenue growth fuels hope Claude maker’s IPO is the biggest listing in history
Financial Times
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Claude’s new Scarlet Letter watermark is invisible—for now
The mark flags anything Claude processed, even human writing it only edited.
Ashley Belanger
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The web’s newest weapon against AI scrapers is a font
“ShieldFont” aims to poison AI training data without making pages unreadable for people.
Kyle Orland
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Terabytes of credentials leaked in massive supply-chain attack
The data was scraped and exfiltrated from 2,500 users of a compromised AI package.
Dan Goodin
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Twitch content has trained Amazon AI for years, but users can opt out now
Streaming platform says user-generated content “may be used for future Gen AI model improvements.”
Scharon Harding
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Booksellers suspect AI firms are buying and then destroying rare books
AI firms quietly bulk buying rare books face resistance from booksellers.
Ashley Belanger
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Gemini becomes Google’s fastest-growing product ever as it hits 1B users
But will Gemini’s surge survive slowing model releases?
Ryan Whitwam
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With new open models, Meta pitches another reboot of its struggling AI strategy
Meta has been trailing competitors. Zuckerberg thinks he’s found a way forward.
Samuel Axon
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Amazon backs power plant that may become top source of US climate pollution
Amazon announces first off-the-grid data center in race to reap AI profits.
Ashley Belanger
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Peer review is overwhelmed—can it survive in the AI era?
As research and AI-assisted papers surge, volunteer reviewers struggle to keep up.
Saima Sidik
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DeepMind’s hurricane breakthrough has surprised weather scientists
Open source WeatherNext model can make accurate predictions with lower-resolution weather data.
WIRED
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OpenAI’s expensive smart speaker will use moving parts to seem “more alive”
Gurman report claims OpenAI confirmed the speaker is not an Apple ripoff.
Scharon Harding
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AI chatbots have failed people in crisis. Can that be fixed?
Clinicians and researchers say AI companies need to open up their safety data.
Cyrus Farivar
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ByteDance trains massive AI model in bid to rival Anthropic
TikTok owner training a model with 10 trillion parameters.
Financial Times
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Suno hopes to go legit with watermarks for AI-generated music
Suno plans watermarks and download limits to stop “large-scale abuse.”
Ryan Whitwam
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Anthropic will design its own hardware to power Claude
Anthropic and OpenAI are racing to scale up while reducing dependence on Nvidia.
Samuel Axon
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Large genome models used to design new viruses
The AI system makes genetically distant versions of a bacteria-killing virus.
John Timmer
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Cloudflare open-sources vibe-coding platform for people who aren’t coders
Cloudflare built an AI agent workspace for its employees. Now it’s open source.
Jeremy Hsu
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AI isn’t enough to protect social media communities from AI
Why humans need to moderate humans.
Scharon Harding
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Anthropic’s AI used fake identities, malware in rogue attack on GitHub project
Anthropic and OpenAI models’ unprompted actions forced halt to UK cyber tests.
Jeremy Hsu
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Reddit signals ominous upcoming “changes” for old.reddit.com
Reddit says the beloved site is used for some “bad behavior.”
Scharon Harding
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Hank Green found the AI problem that YouTube labels can’t catch
“Slop” isn’t the only problem.
Nate Anderson
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Google plans to kill Assistant on your phone on September 4
Assistant will disappear, leaving only Gemini for voice control in the coming weeks.
Ryan Whitwam
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SpaceX spooks investors with debut earnings report
Shares slide in pre-market trading even as group says its quarterly revenues nearly doubled.
Financial Times
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Texas halts data center connections to power grid amid overwhelming demand
Governor who touted Texas as AI “epicenter” pauses data center grid connections.
Jeremy Hsu
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US company’s AI lets Ukraine’s cheap kamikaze drones track targets on their own
$100 million deal gives 50,000 Ukrainian drones US-developed AI capabilities.
Jeremy Hsu
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An AI-supervised remote exam went so badly that 58,000 students must retake it
Top scores increased by 5x.
Nate Anderson
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As Reddit stock falls, CEO questions value of Google’s AI Overviews
Reddit may still be considering ending its licensing deal with Google.
Samuel Axon
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