OpenAI’s Sora was the creepiest app on your phone — now it’s shutting down
Though the underlying Sora 2 video- and audio-generation model is scarily impressive, there was not sustained interest in…
Meta is having trouble with rogue AI agents
A rogue AI agent inadvertently exposed Meta company and user data to engineers who didn’t have permission to…
The Pentagon is developing alternatives to Anthropic, report says
After their dramatic falling out, it doesn’t seem as though Anthropic and the Pentagon are getting back together.
Picsart now allows creators to ‘hire’ AI assistants through agent marketplace
Picsart’s AI agent marketplace will launch with four agents, then add more agents each week.
The dictionary sues OpenAI
Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster say that OpenAI violated the copyright of almost 100,000 articles by using them for…
The biggest AI stories of the year (so far)
The AI industry is constantly churning out news, like major acquisitions, indie developer successes, public outcry, and existentially…
A writer is suing Grammarly for turning her and other authors into ‘AI editors’ without consent
Journalist Julia Angwin is leading a class action lawsuit against Grammarly for violating her privacy and publicity rights.
AI ‘actor’ Tilly Norwood put out the worst song I’ve ever heard
This song is an AI actor’s rallying cry to other AI actors, urging them to keep going despite…
Meta acquired Moltbook, the AI agent social network that went viral because of fake posts
Meta says that Moltbook’s approach to “connecting agents through an always-on-directory” is novel.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei could still be trying to make a deal with Pentagon
Anthropic’s $200 million contract with the Department of Defense broke down due to disagreements over giving the military…