Tootfinder

Following Disney, Paramount sent a cease-and-desist letter to ByteDance, alleging its AI-generated Seedance videos and Seedream images infringed Paramount's IP (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/par

Paramount, Disney Send ByteDance Seedance AI Cease-and-Desist Letters
Paramount Skydance accused ByteDance of engaging in "blatant infringement" of its intellectual property with its Seedance video and Seedream image generative AI platforms.

We’ve chosen the paper for @… next week (February 23rd): “Hallucinating with AI: AI Psychosis as Distributed Delusions” by Lucy Osler.
(Is it this Lucy Osler: @…? We think so!)
We’ll have copies to give out tonight (6 PM, Vi…

How generative AI is used in the financial sector.
#AI

Generative AI in Financial Services: Use Cases & Risks
Explore generative AI in financial services: how it works, top use cases, customer experience gains, key risks, and governance best practices.

"Nous estimons qu'Š ce stade de son développement, les risques liés Š l'utilisation de l'IA générative dans l'éducation des enfants l'emportent sur ses avantages. Cela s'explique en grande partie par le fait que les risques liés Š l'IA sont de nature différente de ses avantages, c'est-Š-dire que ces risques compromettent le développement fondamental des enfants et peuvent empêcher la concrétisation des avantages."

“AI can make mistakes, and it cannot replace the experience of reading an article in full. But we do believe it will help you find, understand and use ACM content both more quickly and more deeply.” https://dl.acm.org/generative-ai/summarizations
Why? Why?? WHY??? Has anybody aske…

“AI can make mistakes, and it cannot replace the experience of reading an article in full. But we do believe it will help you find, understand and use ACM content both more quickly and more deeply.” https://dl.acm.org/generative-ai/summarizations
Why? Why?? WHY??? Has anybody aske…

“AI can make mistakes, and it cannot replace the experience of reading an article in full. But we do believe it will help you find, understand and use ACM content both more quickly and more deeply.” https://dl.acm.org/generative-ai/summarizations
Why? Why?? WHY??? Has anybody aske…

Privacy advocates see risk in new Meta policy that uses AI chats to serve targeted ads https://therecord.media/privacy-advocates-see-risks-meta-ai-ad-targeting

Interviews with copywriters on generative AI's impact: job losses to AI, work used for training, falling wages and rates, freelancers losing clients, and more (Brian Merchant/Blood in the Machine)
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/i-was-forced-to-use-ai-until-the

"I was forced to use AI until the day I was laid off." Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry
Copywriters were one of the first to have their jobs targeted by AI firms. These are their stories, three years into the AI era.

❝Our guidelines for generative AI in music and audio are as follows:
● Music and audio that is generated wholly or in substantial part by AI is not permitted on Bandcamp.
● Any use of AI tools to impersonate other artists or styles is strictly prohibited in accordance with our existing policies prohibiting impersonation and intellectual property infringement.❞

Bandcamp’s Mission and Our Approach to Generative AI
We’re articulating our approach to generative AI so musicians can keep making music and fans can trust the music they find on Bandcamp.

Beautiful summary
https://yarnspinner.dev/blog/why-we-dont-use-ai/

Why We Don't Use AI | Yarn Spinner
We get asked about AI a lot. Whether we’re going to add it to Yarn Spinner, whether we use it ourselves, what we think about it. Fair questions. Time to write it all down. Yarn Spinner doesn’t use the technology that’s currently being called AI. We don’t have generative AI features in the product, and we don’t use code generation tools to build it, and we don’t accept contributions we know contain generated material. Let’s talk about why.

Sage advice about artificial intelligence: "Do your own original thinking first."
Because “Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.” 
https://open.substack.com/pub/philkoopman/p/plans-plan…

Solve Intelligence, which offers generative AI tools to law firms for IP and patent law work, raised a $40M Series B, bringing its total funding to $55M (Mike Butcher/Pathfounders)
https://pathfounders.com/p/generative-ai-is-coming-for-ip

Generative AI is coming for IP and patent law, as Solve Intelligence raises its Series B
It looks like a swathe of older legal tech platforms are about to be hit by Generative AI startups. But are VCs using 'king-making' tactics to back the winners?

Well done Games workshop https://games.slashdot.org/story/26/01/15/0446208/warhammer-maker-games-workshop-bans-its-staff-from-using-ai-in-its-content-or-designs

Warhammer Maker Games Workshop Bans Its Staff From Using AI In Its Content or Designs - Slashdot
Games Workshop, the owner and operator of a number of hugely popular tabletop war games, including Warhammer 40,000 and Age of Sigmar, has banned the use of generative AI in its content and design processes. IGN reports: Delivering the UK company's impressive financial results, CEO Kevin Rountree a...

Okay, this must absolutely have been made with some kind of generative AI, but it's not pretending to be real, it's hella funny/deadly serious and just superb. (I especially love the tough walrus smoking a cigar while driving a fishing boat 😂 ) Kudos to the makers!

Did an "AI" (LLM) write that report? @… https://flipboard.com/@npr/science-uk3a4d92z/-/a-2dzVqOFxTxGIIGWtXjFa7Q:a:319544…

The risks of AI in schools outweigh the benefits, report says
The risks of using generative artificial intelligence to educate children and teens currently overshadow the benefits, according to a new study by the Brookings Institution's Center for Universal Education. The sweeping study includes focus groups and interviews with K-12 students, parents, …

Everybody who wants to understand Generative AI should read articles like this.
#AI

LLMs contain a LOT of parameters. But what’s a parameter?
They’re the mysterious numbers that make your favorite AI models tick. What are they and what do they do?

I wish we had more people writing more sophisticated concerns about the harms of AI.
"Slop" criticism is important because I think many of us feel we are being gaslit into believing that generative AI is currently creating quality creative output, while Al (henceforth Alfred) is overwhelmingly creating mediocre quality creative work.
Every past winter, Alfred survives in a more focused and refined form. Eliza was a toy chatbot of the 1960s, but what emerged from that is…

Good examples in that article for why a prompt-based system for system administration seems odd: You type a hundred-word question and are told by the AI to use apt when the Fedora system doesn’t use that package manager at all. https://mstdn.social/@osnews/115702679695335298

On March 9th I’m helping launch AI Foundations for Educators, a 5-week online course that goes beyond workshop-level knowledge to guide teachers and school staff in developing a personalized framework for adapting classrooms to AI.
It’s a pilot module for a planned online certificate on generative AI; would count as credit toward that graduate credential. Open to anyone with a BA.

Generative AI can’t magically reveal otherwise unknown truths. AI doesn’t have any idea what the lower half of the killer’s face looks, no more than my students knew what my unmasked face looked like.
What AI •can• do is generate a random plausible face that really looks like a face. It might even look like the face of a real person — a random, innocent person.
Sharing AI-generated unmasking photos is dangerous.
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"What I’m saying is generative AI is a deeply expensive edging machine, but for your life."
Garbage Day nails it.
(Original title: Generative AI is an expensive edging machine)
https://www.garbageday.email/p/generative-ai-is-an-expensive-ed…

Generative AI is an expensive edging machine
Read to the end for insider trading and money laundering

Somehow Bill Watterson published this Calvin and Hobbes comic strip about generative AI 40 years ago.
#genAI #CalvinAndHobbes

'It is 2025, and seemingly everyone wants us in the humanities to do stuff “with AI,” informed not by what the technology avails but by the hopes it encodes.' Sonja Drimmer on 🔥on Art Forum
https://www.artforum.com/features/generative-ai-st…

Generative AI’s Structure of Feeling
Sonja Drimmer critically examines art historians’ recent embrace of generative AI as a tool for humanities research. 

AI and the railway mania
Michael Roberts.
"A widely cited study from MIT found that so far, 95 per cent of generative AI projects produce no return in productivity growth or profits. To justify the required investment, annual data-centre revenues would need to rise from $20bn today to about $2trn.  Existing revenues will fall short by $800bn.."

AI and the railway mania
The AI bubble continues. The Magnificent Seven of tech media continue to drive the US stock market, along with the AI companies. The ten largest US companies by stock market value, holdin…

As AI and agents are adopted to accelerate development, cognitive load and cognitive debt are likely to become bigger threats to developers than technical debt (Margaret-Anne Storey)
https://margaretstorey.com/blog/2026/02/09/cognitive-debt/

How Generative and Agentic AI Shift Concern from Technical Debt to Cognitive Debt
The term technical debt is often used to refer to the accumulation of design or implementation choices that later make the software harder and more costly to understand, modify, or extend over time...

#Firefox führt ab Version 148 eine neue Einstellung ein, mit der Nutzer alle aktuellen und zukünftigen generativen #AI-Funktionen im Browser blockieren können.
Alternativ lassen sich einzelne Features wie #Übersetzungen

Firefox will soon let you block all of its generative AI features | TechCrunch
Starting with Firefox 148 arriving later this month, users will find a new AI controls section within the desktop browser settings.

New talk abstract dropping. I just hope I can write a talk to live up to it by *checks watch* *gulp* Monday.

Personally invested in authorities facing consequences for using generative AI to document "findings" to support decisions, and then lying about it.
(Even if I don't think the decision itself was unreasonable.)
https://www.theguardian…

Home secretary says she has lost confidence in police chief behind Maccabi Tel Aviv fans ban
Shabana Mahmood statement is blow to Craig Guildford’s chances of remaining West Midlands police chief constable

6 Privacy Tips for the Generative AI Era
https://fpf.org/blog/6-privacy-tips-for-the-generative-ai-era/
@…
Data Privacy Day, or Data…

Det er allerede beskrevet hvordan ondsindede aktŸrer kan indfŸre desinformation i generative sprogmodeller. Her er det så historien om salg af Flügger-maling til Rusland der er blevet manipuleret:
https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/penge/pludselig-

Pludselig dukkede nyhed op, der kaldte Flügger-beskyldninger for 'ondsindede': 'Googles AI er blevet forgiftet'
Russere forsøger at manipulere og misinformere om dansk sanktionssag, vurderer eksperter.

This is a genuinely good idea, and I'd urge you to sign it. Make #AI generated works immediately identifiable. It would be interesting also to require a similar 'watermark' in generated texts -- perhaps a particular sequence of whitespace characters.
#generativeAI
H/t

Petition: Require generative AI watermarks & ban using people’s likeness without consent
As AI generated content becomes increasingly realistic, we think laws should be put in place to prevent misuse. All such media should carry a permanent watermark or disclosure, alongside a blanket ban on using anyone’s likeness in AI-generated content without consent.

Menlo Ventures: business spending on generative AI hit $37B in 2025, up from $11.5B in 2024; Anthropic's share of enterprise LLM spend grew from 24% to 40% YoY (Menlo Ventures)
https://menlovc.com/perspective/2025-the-state-of-generative-ai-in-the-enter…

2025: The State of Generative AI in the Enterprise | Menlo Ventures
For all the fears of over-investment, AI is spreading across enterprises at a pace with no precedent in modern software history.

I keep on thinking about this so often, now mostly about how the word has been co-opted & abused by contemporary "AI"... Just refound the link (from 2012):
Generative vs generated
https://www.anomalogue.com/2012/05/01/generative-vs-generated/

Generative vs generated
A generative idea is worth much more than a generated idea. * Generative ideas are perceived only indirectly in the ideas they generate — if the generative idea is perceived at all. Most peop…

Airbnb hires Meta executive Ahmad Al-Dahle, who led generative AI and the Llama team after working at Apple, as its CTO, as it aims to integrate AI in its app (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

I'm already seeing artists leaning into their strengths, areas where generative AI is weak. For example, the last three artists I've contacted for paid work have ghosted me.

On (generative) AI:
"So it's sort of like when we fed cows with cows and got mad cow disease."
https://framapiaf.org/@bbbhltz/115646412773089943

I tried to put a stake in the ground for how I have used and will (not) use the collection of technologies loosely and collectively referred to as ‘AI’ for content on my blag-o-tron:
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/12/my-use-of-ai-on-this-site.html
Boring read…

My Use of ‘AI’ on this Site
I’m using this post to acknowledge my past practices and establish future ones on this site related to ‘AI’. I have not, and will not, use LLMs to write, draft, review, or otherwise participate in content creation — outside of clearly-identified contexts to critique it. I have used generative technologies…

Good article about that there is more then just Generative AI, where all the hype is, but that we are making great and steady progress in the field of predictive AI.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/1

Generative AI hype distracts us from AI’s more important breakthroughs
It's a seductive distraction from the advances in AI that are most likely to improve or even save your life

Expedition 33 is one of my all time fav games but I'm happy the Indie Game Dev Awards is taking a hard line on AI in games.
https://mashable.com/article/clair-obscur-expedition-33-indie-game-awards-revoked-ai

I wonder if consciously avoiding the style and patterns frequently applied by generative AI might be triggering some kind of forced language evolution. Previously considered best practices that are now shunned to not sound like a machine.
#language #linguistics

That article is good, but I had to turn off that video interview with Paul Kedrosky after about 30 seconds into his "explanation" of generative AI.
Complete word salad. Using all the right words in all the wrong ways. Poor Paul Krugman. You deserve a genuine explanation.

The inch that generative AI boosters give is the country mile that employers take to justify mass layoffs in the name of AI

Bookmarked: CoMMA: thousands of medieval manuscripts finally transcribed | Inria #HTR Transcribing thousands of medieva…

CoMMA: thousands of medieval manuscripts finally transcribed | Inria
Transcribing thousands of medieval manuscripts by hand would be a monumental undertaking. Fortunately, researchers in computational humanities at the Inria Paris Centre have been able to automate the task through the use of generative AI. Their creation is CoMMA, a giant, one-of-a-kind corpus that will now be available to specialists in the humanities, revolutionising the exploration of writing from the Middle Ages.

"Dispensing false information in a confident tone, rather than offering no answer when none is readily available, is a major flaw of generative AI, experts say. An audit of the top 10 generative AI model... by the media literacy non-profit NewsGuard revealed that the non-response rates of chatbots went down from 31% in August 2024 to 0% in August 2025. At the same time, the chatbots’ likelihood of repeating false information almost doubled from 18% to 35%"

https://fortune.com/2025/12/25/cursor-ceo-michael-truell-vibe-coding-warning-generative-ai-assistant/

"No AI slop here! I'm merely exploring generative music and video!"

I'll never pay for Disney again.🤮
First they f**d up Star Wars, then Dr. Who and now they want to allow "AI" slop on their platform.
FU Disney.🖕
"During an earnings call, Disney CEO Bob Iger said that Disney was about to expand, allowing subscribers to generate and share AI-generated content."

"regardless of the underlying technology, the pursuit of artificial general intelligence is not necessarily the most efficient route to useful applications. Artificial specific intelligence (AI approaches focused on a specific domain, such as the Nobel prize-winning, protein-folding algorithm, AlphaFold2) gives more reliable and transparent results by combining the subtle pattern detection at which GenAI excels with explicitly encoded, domain-specific knowledge."

Gestern ausgelesen. Im Kern gut, man muss aber ausschweifende, zumeist historische Abschweifungen abkönnen und darf keine Lobhudelei auf KI erwarten. Und weil das englische Original von 2021 ist, existiert ChatGPT und generative AI in diesem Buch noch nicht: Kate Crawford – Atlas der KI. #ai #ki

Does tossing a laptop in the river destroy evidence?
The Coupang hacker allegedly disposed of the laptop used in the breach by throwing it into a river.
https://www.cybersecurity-insiders.com/hacker-…

Hacker Disposes of Coupang Data Breach Laptop in River, initiating $1.2 Billion as compensation
AI is evolving at a rapid pace, and the uptake of Generative AI (GenAI) is revolutionising the way humans interact and leverage this technology. GenAI is

Concept artists give informed critiques of using GenAI to concept. Fav quote:
“When I show someone a rough sketch they see it differently than I do. They’re not seeing the sketch, they’re seeing the potential for what the sketch could be through their own taste and experiences, and it sparks all kinds of wonderful ideas that I would’ve never thought of on my own.”
Concept Artists Say Generative AI References Only Make Their Jobs Harder

Concept Artists Say Generative AI References Only Make Their Jobs Harder
We spoke to a dozen professional concept artists working in games about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs any easier. Zero said it did.

https://bsky.app/profile/stevoisiak.bsky.social/post/3mdw4a6tpv226

Stevoisiak (@stevoisiak.bsky.social)
I made a filterlist for uBlock Origin to remove Generative AI features on websites. Includes blocks for * Google AI Summaries * YouTube Ask button & chat summaries * GitHub Copilot * Facebook AI chat * X's Grok buttons * Deviantart DreamUp * Booru AI images * And more https://github.com/Stevoisiak/Stevos-GenAI-Blocklist/

I love generative AI.
Generative AI is absolutely fantastic.
I learn so many new things thanks to it.
Every time I ask it to do something for me, it always messes it up to the point I say "aaaah, screw it" and do the thing myself.

This is a good idea. All genAI/diffusion images to be marked with a watermark. If you're in the UK, please sign the petition⤵️
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/736690

Petition: Require generative AI watermarks & ban using people’s likeness without consent
As AI generated content becomes increasingly realistic, we think laws should be put in place to prevent misuse. All such media should carry a permanent watermark or disclosure, alongside a blanket ban on using anyone’s likeness in AI-generated content without consent.

UK intelligence warns AI 'prompt injection' attacks might never go away https://therecord.media/prompt-injection-attacks-uk-intelligence-warning

"producing the feeling of knowing without the labor of judgement"
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.19466
oh what a great line

Epistemological Fault Lines Between Human and Artificial Intelligence
Large language models (LLMs) are widely described as artificial intelligence, yet their epistemic profile diverges sharply from human cognition. Here we show that the apparent alignment between human and machine outputs conceals a deeper structural mismatch in how judgments are produced. Tracing the historical shift from symbolic AI and information filtering systems to large-scale generative transformers, we argue that LLMs are not epistemic agents but stochastic pattern-completion systems, for…

I think generative AI only has one purpose: making my dog into random things.

Right, "generative ai", not "generation ai".

Following UK CMA's proposals, Google says it is exploring controls to let websites opt out of AI Overviews and AI Mode (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Roundtable)
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-opt-out-of-search-ai-features-40831.html

Google Exploring Ways To Allow Sites To Opt Out Of AI Overviews & AI Mode
Google just announced it is looking into ways to allow websites to specifically opt out of Google using its content in the Search generative AI features such as AI Overviews and AI Mode. This comes b

People who say the current generation of generative AI is nothing / pure snake oil and hypegrift are wrong. True, ChatGPT is pretty much slop, but instances like Grok Expert and Perplexity Pro consistently produce meaningful, correct results in less time than it would take to manually comb the Internet for the information. Claude Code and Cursor can radically accelerate certain software development, especially in the hands of someone who can already write code and redirect the model when it&…

"Generative AI" is not what you think it is by Acerola
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERiXDhLHxmo

The generative AI crash is gonna be just like when companies realized their pandemic revenue growth wasn’t going to continue forever, huh

I loved @jasonclark.bsky.social 's #FF2025 'problem statement':
'We were given access to a weirdly confident intern that can’t explain how they got their answers.
It is a seamless interface that breaks search interaction retrieval patterns.'

{ "jason": "clark" } (@jasonclark.bsky.social)
Slides and code from my #ff2025 talk, "Reasoning with Small Language Models (SLM) for Trustworthy Generative AI (GenAI)." Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1NHCuyuPd9KK3QUo8izeta2CMIk-rmcy1/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=103883366387427181221&rtpof=true&sd=true Code: https://github.com/jasonclark/agentic-search-react

How to use generative AI ethically and tastefully
Thread 👇

Fal, which hosts generative AI models for developers, raised a $140M Series D led by Sequoia, a source says at a $4.5B valuation, up from $1.5B in July (Paayal Zaveri/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025…

Elon Musk says Apple and Google's Gemini deal "seems like an unreasonable concentration of power for Google given that [they] also have Android and Chrome" (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/01/12/elon-musk-reacts-to-gemini-siri/

Elon Musk Reacts to Apple and Google Teaming on Gemini-Powered Siri
Elon Musk today expressed concern about Apple and Google partnering on a more personalized version of Siri powered by Google's generative AI...

New use for generative AI dropped: elder abuse
https://bsky.app/profile/brocklesnitch.bsky.social/post/3maudonruvs2x

'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022 https://www.404media.co/slop-evader-browser-extension-pre-generative-ai-search-filter/

Some US college students say they are using AI "humanizer" tools to alter text to avoid cheating accusations; AI detection tools now aim to catch "humanizers" (Tyler Kingkade/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/coll

To avoid accusations of AI cheating, college students turn to AI
On college campuses across the United States, the introduction of generative artificial intelligence has sparked a sort of arms race

Happy new year. Take your genocides and your generative AI and shove ’em up your ass

Cursor CEO Michael Truell warns that "vibe coding" advanced projects may create "shaky foundations" and eventually "things start to kind of crumble" (Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/12/25/cursor-

Cursor CEO warns vibe coding builds ‘shaky foundations’ and eventually ‘things start to crumble’
“Vibe coding refers to a method of coding with AI where you kind of close your eyes and you don't look at the code at all and you just ask the AI to go build the thing for you.”

How Wikipedia Will Survive in the Age of AI (With Wikipedia’s CTO Selena Deckelmann) https://www.404media.co/how-wikipedia-will-survive-in-the-age-of-ai-with-wikipedias-cto-selena-deckelmann/

OpenAI and longtime US government contractor Leidos announce a partnership to roll out generative and agentic AI tools for specific missions at federal agencies (Miranda Nazzaro/FedScoop)
https://fedscoop.com/openai-chatgpt-le

OpenAI, Leidos partner to deploy AI for federal agency missions
While AI is increasingly used in agencies already, company leaders say the collaboration will help tailor the technology to specific missions.

This can’t possibly be a unique observation, but generative AI boosters, if they’re not pedophiles, seem to be primarily engaging in productivity aesthetic, which is to say, lifestyle blogging their way through pointless busy work

Italy-based humanoid robotics startup Generative Bionics raised €70M led by CDP Venture Capital, with participation from Tether, AMD Ventures, and others (Daniele Lepido/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-1…

Internal memo: Sam Altman tells staff that ChatGPT is "back to exceeding 10% monthly growth", and OpenAI plans to release "an updated Chat model" this week (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/09/sam-altman-touts-cha…

Sam Altman touts ChatGPT's reaccelerating growth to employees as OpenAI closes in on $100 billion funding
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told employees that ChatGPT's monthly growth is back above 10%, as competition ramps up in generative AI.

I feel like there’s an extremely suspect form of implicit trust going on with generative AI, i.e. “everyone‘s using it, and everything will turn out alright!” No, it won’t! For you specifically!!! At least if you’re not already a fucking billionaire!

A profile of Josh Woodward, the head of Google Labs who is credited with turning around the Gemini app, growing its MAUs from 350M in March to 650M by October (Jennifer Elias/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/20/josh-woodward-google-gemini-ai-safety.html

Google was at risk of losing its dominance — until it promoted this AI executive
Josh Woodward, a 16-year Google veteran, is tasked with running the Gemini app and going head-to-head with OpenAI in the booming generative AI market.

HSBC signs a deal with Mistral to access Mistral's AI models and collaborate on developing new models for internal use, as big banks rush to adopt generative AI (Ortenca Aliaj/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/7b8e4ea8-ae17-4ada-9117-9f859589ce1d

I sincerely hope that before too long, generative AI images are recognized for the lazy dogshit that they are, and that the design profession utterly ostracizes the practitioners who use them

Similarweb: generative AI platforms were averaging ~7B monthly web visits as of September 2025, up 76% YoY, rivaling the traffic of major social networks (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)
https://the-decoder.com/chatbots-are-now-riva…

Chatbots are now rivaling social networks as a core layer of internet infrastructure
New data from Similarweb reveals massive spikes in traffic and app downloads, while the user base expands to include older generations.

Google details a new implementation of generative UI that lets Gemini 3 Pro build interactive interfaces for any prompt, launching in the Gemini app and AI Mode (Google Research)
https://research.google/blog/generative-ui-a-rich-cus…

Generative UI: A rich, custom, visual interactive user experience for any prompt

The USPTO issues new guidelines clarifying that generative AI is considered a tool that assists human inventors and cannot itself be considered an inventor (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-…

Humain partners with Adobe and Qualcomm to develop AI tools for Arabic content, using Adobe's Firefly Foundry to build AI models and Qualcomm chips to run them (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/

Google Photos' latest generative AI-powered feature, "Me Meme", lets users create memes from their own images, launching first in the US (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/23/google-photos-latest-feature-lets-you-meme-…

Google Photos' latest feature lets you meme yourself | TechCrunch
The new feature lets you insert yourself into a meme in Google Photos.

Google acquires Common Sense Machines, whose AI models create 3D assets from 2D images, and was last valued at $15M after raising $10M from a16z and others (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/exclusive-google-acquires-3d-im…

Exclusive: Google Acquires 3D Image Generator Startup
Google has acquired Common Sense Machines, a Cambridge, Mass.,-based startup developing generative artificial intelligence models to create three-dimensional assets from two-dimensional images, a Google spokesperson confirmed. The deal closed this week, according to the spokesperson. The spokesperson declined to provide a price. The company had around a dozen employees, according to its