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@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-09 18:20:57

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)
menlovc.com/perspective/2025-t

@inthehands@hachyderm.io
2026-01-08 05:50:16

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.
3/

@jonippolito@digipres.club
2026-02-06 13:45:30

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.

A graphic showing a teacher, robot, and students collaborating in a workflow, next to the words "AI Foundations for Educators," UMaine Online, March-April 2026
@johnleonard@mastodon.social
2026-03-05 15:12:21

The UK’s creative industries face a “clear and present danger” from generative AI, a House of Lords committee has warned the government.
computing.co.uk/news/2026/ai/u

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-09 14:15:51

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)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@niklaskorz@rheinneckar.social
2026-02-09 09:53:27

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

@pbloem@sigmoid.social
2025-12-09 16:52:18

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.

@ErikJonker@mastodon.social
2026-01-02 13:23:04

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.
technologyreview.com/2025/12/1

@veit@mastodon.social
2026-03-07 12:53:45

Donald Knuth is quite enthusiastic about his recent experiences with generative AI: #Knuth

@shriramk@mastodon.social
2026-02-04 01:45:53

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

Generative AI and Computing Education for Novices

Generative AI (GenAI) has sowed havoc in computing education, especially introductory computing. As AI models grow in sophistication, it is increasingly difficult to find problems that cannot be comprehensively solved by AI. Even "defeat devices" like obscure programming languages have limited viability, due to technical reasons like one-shot learning, temporal reasons such as training, and basic educational considerations like what we want stu…
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online
2026-02-03 15:16:57

#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

@mia@hcommons.social
2026-01-30 09:38:05

'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
artforum.com/features/generati

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-02-24 21:50:27

[OT] Latest Firefox browser: block generative AI features with Firefox AI controls #AI

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-01-28 17:40:55

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)
seroundtable.com/google-opt-ou

@crell@phpc.social
2026-02-28 20:29:15

Nice, a uBlockOrigin blocklist for AI-based sites:
#AI #LLM

@tante@tldr.nettime.org
2026-01-22 10:20:06

"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)
garbageday.email/p/generative-

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-03-09 08:15:37

A Lloyds-commissioned study of 5,000 people in the UK finds that 50% of the adults used generative AI platforms for financial advice; ChatGPT was the most used (Mary McDougall/Financial Times)
ft.com/content/a16bbdf4-a8c9-4

@soundclamp@mastodon.xyz
2026-02-04 00:12:58

bsky.app/profile/stevoisiak.bs

@jkohlmann@mastodon.social
2026-01-05 21:46:19

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

@marcel@waldvogel.family
2026-02-26 06:38:49

“Big Tech’s AI hype is distracting users from the rapid and dangerous expansion of giant, energy and water-intensive data centres […].
There is simply no evidence that AI will help the climate more than it will harm it.
Rather than relying on credible and substantiated data, Big Tech companies are writing themselves a blank cheque to pollute on the empty promise of future salvation. We cannot bet the climate on these baseless claims.”

@privacity@social.linux.pizza
2026-01-28 16:27:18

6 Privacy Tips for the Generative AI Era
fpf.org/blog/6-privacy-tips-fo
@…
Data Privacy Day, or Data…

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-09 04:10:59

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)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org
2026-02-23 16:01:37

Moment of Gratitude, this time for GitHub.com
I have been having fun with claude-code and have been using github in ways I did not know existed (like hosting docker images), and so easy! (and, I think, for free)
Thank you GitHub!
brewster.kahle.org/2026/02/01…

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-02-09 13:21:35

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)
cnbc.com/2026/02/09/sam-altman

@aardrian@toot.cafe
2025-12-31 16:56:21

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:
adrianroselli.com/2025/12/my-u
Boring read…

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2026-01-19 15:41:58

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
anomalogue.com/2012/05/01/gene

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@primonatura@mstdn.social
2026-02-21 14:00:28

"Claims that AI can help fix climate dismissed as greenwashing"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Greenwashing

@ErikJonker@mastodon.social
2026-02-26 11:49:28

Gary has a point, at the same it is not the whole story in my view. Regardless the scam and all the bad things, Generative AI has added value for me here and now. That doesn't diminish the scam and all the bad effects of the technology, still it is also a perspective.
garymarcus.substack.c…

@piger@mastodon.social
2026-03-05 21:38:39

I hope my middle age crisis won’t involve generative ai addiction, but instead something more cliche like buying a reflex or growing a prestigious mustache

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
2026-02-01 15:39:03

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

@stefan@gardenstate.social
2025-12-22 15:54:20

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.
mashable.com/article/clair-obs

@metacurity@infosec.exchange
2025-12-30 12:05:54

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.
cybersecurity-insiders.com/hac

@hynek@mastodon.social
2025-12-26 17:11:37

fortune.com/2025/12/25/cursor-

We’re all trying to find the guy who did this meme
@trochee@dair-community.social
2026-01-02 19:23:52

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

@Techpizzamondays@social.linux.pizza
2026-02-16 13:08:10

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…

@newsie@darktundra.xyz
2026-02-23 17:03:28

Global data protection authorities warn generative AI companies against replicating real people therecord.media/data-protectio

@GroupNebula563@mastodon.social
2026-02-25 18:31:20

I could go on for hours about all the ethical/moral/environmental/whatever issues with #AI, but it’s entirely irrelevant and I’ll tell you why. Generative AI works by getting the average of things, and it’s trying to replace humans. There is no average human. We’re all beautifully, naturally imperfect, and that’s something an artificial machine will never be able to replicate.

@jkohlmann@mastodon.social
2026-02-02 22:40:44

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

@idbrii@mastodon.gamedev.place
2025-12-23 04:42:05

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

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-02-03 10:01:21

Publicis CEO Arthur Sadoun says the company is among the few in the sector to crack the use of generative AI, and pledges another €1B for AI and data operations (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
ft.com/content/6a79ac6a-3a44-4

@lpryszcz@genomic.social
2026-01-14 07:52:52

Beautiful summary
yarnspinner.dev/blog/why-we-do

@krispijn@social.sargasso.nl
2026-02-17 10:11:01

Claims that #AI can help fix climate dismissed as #greenwashing theguardian.com/technology/202

@socallinuxexpo@social.linux.pizza
2026-03-01 03:55:02

Lishuang Shen will speak on '“Millions-to-One, Words-to-Terms” – Generative AI Tools in Action for Rare Disease Diagnosis and Patient Data Harmonization' as part of our Applied Science track at SCaLE 23x. Full details: socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x

@gfriend@mas.to
2025-12-14 16:09:34

Sage advice about artificial intelligence: "Do your own original thinking first."
Because “Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.” 
open.substack.com/pub/philkoop

@theodric@social.linux.pizza
2026-02-02 09:24:29

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&…

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-28 17:46:01

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)
seroundtable.com/google-opt-ou

@ErikJonker@mastodon.social
2026-01-14 07:42:35

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

@LillyHerself@Mastodon.social
2026-01-13 22:12:41

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!

Generative AI video about Trump's plans to invade Greenland.
@mxp@mastodon.acm.org
2025-12-17 21:27:50

“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.” dl.acm.org/generative-ai/summa
Why? Why?? WHY??? Has anybody aske…

Niemert wöt das = Nobody wants this
@mxp@mastodon.acm.org‬
2025-12-17 21:27:50

“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.” dl.acm.org/generative-ai/summa
Why? Why?? WHY??? Has anybody aske…

‪@mxp@mastodon.acm.org‬
2025-12-17 21:27:50

“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.” dl.acm.org/generative-ai/summa
Why? Why?? WHY??? Has anybody aske…

@crell@phpc.social
2026-01-14 19:54:25

Wait, Games Workshop did something good?
#AI

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-02-25 06:10:46

Koah, which embeds sponsored ads directly into AI chatbots and aims to build an AdSense for AI, raised a $20.5M Series A led by Theory Ventures (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)
adweek.com/media/koah-adsense-

@soundclamp@mastodon.xyz
2026-01-14 02:34:56

❝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.❞

@debellum@ludosphere.fr
2026-01-15 12:06:19

Well done Games workshop games.slashdot.org/story/26/01

@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social
2026-02-20 21:47:30

"Experiences of Academics, Graduates, and Undergraduates in Using Generative AI in Research (Un)Ethically and (Ir)Responsibly: A Systematic Review of Qualitative Synthesis"
doi.org/10.1080/10572317.2026.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-02-27 02:25:57

Q&A with Terence Tao on AI-generated Erdős solutions, "cheap wins", hybrid human AI contributions, push-of-a-button workflows, new ways of doing math, and more (Matteo Wong/The Atlantic)
theatlantic.com/technology/202

@arXiv_physicsfludyn_bot@mastoxiv.page
2026-02-27 08:32:10

From synthetic turbulence to true solutions: A deep diffusion model for discovering periodic orbits in the Navier-Stokes equations
Jeremy P Parker, Tobias M Schneider
arxiv.org/abs/2602.23181 arxiv.org/pdf/2602.23181 arxiv.org/html/2602.23181
arXiv:2602.23181v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Generative artificial intelligence has shown remarkable success in synthesizing data that mimic complex real-world systems, but its potential role in the discovery of mathematically meaningful structures in physical models remains underexplored. In this work, we demonstrate how a generative diffusion model can be used to uncover previously unknown solutions of a nonlinear partial differential equation: the two-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations in a turbulent regime. Trained on data from a direct numerical simulation of turbulence, the model learns to generate time series that resemble physically plausible trajectories. By carefully modifying the temporal structure of the model and enforcing the symmetries of the governing equations, we produce synthetic trajectories that are periodic in time, despite the fact that the training data did not contain periodic trajectories. These synthetic trajectories are then refined into true solutions using an iterative solver, yielding 111 new periodic orbits (POs) with very short periods. Our results reveal a previously unobserved richness in the PO structure of this system and suggest a broader role for generative AI: not as replacements for simulation and existing solvers, but as a complementary tool for navigating the complex solution spaces of nonlinear dynamical systems.
toXiv_bot_toot

@compfu@mograph.social
2025-12-12 07:56:12

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. mstdn.social/@osnews/115702679

@saraislet@infosec.exchange
2026-01-14 00:10:06

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…

@axbom@axbom.me
2026-01-13 05:30:40
"WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Monday that Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok will join Google’s generative AI engine in operating inside the Pentagon network, as part of a broader push to feed as much of the military’s data as possible into the developing technology.

'Very soon we will have the world’s leading AI models on every unclassified and classified network throughout our department,' Hegseth said in a speech at Musk’s space fl…
@laura@social.coop
2025-12-24 21:19:40

#CommonplaceNotes lbj20.blogspot.com/2025/12/com supply chains, hope, cool. thanks

@newsie@darktundra.xyz
2026-02-23 17:33:26

Russian-speaking hackers used gen AI tools to compromise 600 firewalls, Amazon says therecord.media/gen-ai-fortiga

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
2025-12-26 12:59:55

New use for generative AI dropped: elder abuse
bsky.app/profile/brocklesnitch

@grumpybozo@toad.social
2026-01-14 17:45:01

Did an "AI" (LLM) write that report? @… flipboard.com/@npr/science-uk3

@lapizistik@social.tchncs.de
2026-02-17 21:48:54

Sowohl die Begeisterung über generative KI als auch der kulturelle wie technische und klimatechnische Aufschrei sind zur Zeit weiterhin groß.
Wir sollten uns Gedanken machen, was nach dem Crash in den rauchenden Trümmern überlebt und was Politik und AI-Firmen auf dem Weg dahin alles an Schaden anrichten können. Denn wir als Gesellschaft werden lernen mit KI¹ umzugehen, uns zu ihr zu verhalten, und das wird ähnlich schrecklich wie mit dieser „Digitalisierung“. Der Großteil dieser sogena…

@joxean@mastodon.social
2025-12-18 12:23:57

After GPUs and RAM, what is the next hardware thing that generative AI is going to monopolise?

@portaloffreedom@social.linux.pizza
2026-02-22 23:31:57
Content warning: LLM, rational thoughts and despair

So, sit down a moment and please take this with all your brain and critism. I don't want to anger you, but to move the discorse forward.
Ok so:
I think if you avoid generative AI in your life, it's not going to send a message to anyone. If you are trying to win a morale argument, I'm sorry but no one cares and the world is going to shit anyway. The only reason why you should not use them are because you are empathic to the ones suffering and because you are trying to a…

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-28 12:35:57

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)
nbcnews.com/tech/internet/coll

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-12-16 04:15:40

Interviews with copywriters on generative AI's impact: their work used for training, layoffs, wages and rates in free fall, freelancers losing clients, and more (Brian Merchant/Blood in the Machine)
bloodinthemachine.com/p/i-was-

@lukem@hachyderm.io
2026-02-21 18:38:18

Today for the first time ever I added fake film grain in post while editing my photos.
I reached the point where noise reduction in low light situations makes my photos look noticeably worse, especially when people are involved. They start looking like wax figures and I hate that.
At the same time, as a digital kid, I wasn't a fan of adding fake grain to my photos. Everyone and their dog knows I don't shoot film. And what's the point of making my photos look worse.
Today something clicked in my brain and I decided I'd rather have some texture and deliberate imperfection in my pictures.
Especially when all this generative AI bullshit these days is about making things look so smooth and perfect it hurts.

@jkohlmann@mastodon.social
2026-01-01 04:54:22

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

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-01-14 07:50:57

Musical AI, an attribution and rights management platform for generative AI in music, raised $4.5M led by Heavybit to improve its attribution tech (Mandy Dalugdug/Music Business Worldwide)
musicbusinessworldwide.com/mus

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-02-27 15:05:55

Amazon will invest $15B in OpenAI initially, followed by $35B if certain conditions are met; OpenAI commits to consuming ~2 GW of Trainium capacity through AWS (About Amazon)
aboutamazon.com/news/aws/amazo

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2026-01-23 20:47:14

I think it's time for some #FollowFriday action once again. Today, let's focus on computational/algorithmic/generative art/design practitioners (not AI art :)
An entirely incomplete list, in A-Z order:
@…

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-14 15:45:34

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)
pathfounders.com/p/generative-

@newsie@darktundra.xyz
2026-01-20 17:56:32

How Wikipedia Will Survive in the Age of AI (With Wikipedia’s CTO Selena Deckelmann) 404media.co/how-wikipedia-will

@theodric@social.linux.pizza
2026-02-18 18:32:08

The "GenAI" buzzword has been astroturfed to confuse the uninitiated between generative AI and general AI.

@ErikJonker@mastodon.social
2026-01-14 13:17:54

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

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-02-25 04:16:05

Koah, which embeds sponsored ads directly into AI chatbots and aims to build an AdSense for AI, raised a $20.5M Series A led by Theory Ventures (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)
adweek.com/media/koah-adsense-

@jkohlmann@mastodon.social
2025-12-28 20:30:51

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!

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-02-16 04:35:33

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)
variety.com/2026/film/news/par

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-26 05:05:49

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)
fortune.com/2025/12/25/cursor-

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-15 09:20:41

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)
bloodinthemachine.com/p/i-was-

@newsie@darktundra.xyz
2025-12-17 16:33:18

Privacy advocates see risk in new Meta policy that uses AI chats to serve targeted ads therecord.media/privacy-advoca

@jkohlmann@mastodon.social
2026-01-28 03:01:55

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

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-24 07:30:53

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)
fedscoop.com/openai-chatgpt-le

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-02-18 16:12:36

Google rolls out Lyria 3, a generative music model that can make 30-second tracks with Nano Banana cover art, in beta in the Gemini app in eight languages (The Keyword)
blog.google/innovation-and-ai/

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-21 01:21:07

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)
cnbc.com/2025/12/20/josh-woodw

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-02-16 04:25:40

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)
variety.com/2026/film/news/par

@jkohlmann@mastodon.social
2026-01-24 05:19:12

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

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-02-18 16:13:11

Google rolls out Lyria 3, a generative music model that can make 30-second tracks with Nano Banana cover art, in beta in the Gemini app in eight languages (The Keyword)
blog.google/innovation-and-ai/

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-02-22 06:11:05

Amazon details how a Russian-speaking hacker used generative AI as part of a campaign that breached 600 FortiGate firewalls across 55 countries in five weeks (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)
bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-02-17 10:55:36

Future launches Future Optic, a commercial Generative Engine Optimization, or GEO, service that aims to boost brand visibility on AI platforms like ChatGPT (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
pressgazette.co.uk/marketing/f

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-14 13:07:51

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)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

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2026-02-15 09:55:37

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)
margaretstorey.com/blog/2026/0

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2026-01-24 00:02:00

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)
techcrunch.com/2026/01/23/goog

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2026-01-24 06:01:23

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)
theinformation.com/briefings/e

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2026-01-12 21:01:28

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)
macrumors.com/2026/01/12/elon-