Amazon is shutting the door on its nearly two-decade-old Mechanical Turk platform, signaling the end of an era for human-powered…
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Infuriating Google commercial imagines the founding fathers embracing AI
“Group project, but make it 1776.” That’s how a new commercial for Google Workspace opens. And things only get cringier…
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Bending Spoons Goes Public With AOL, Vimeo in Portfolio
A company you’ve probably never heard of just went public – and it owns some of the internet’s most recognizable…
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Mistral AI Takes on OpenAI with Open Source Frontier Models
Europe’s most promising AI challenger is making waves. Mistral AI, the French startup founded in 2023, has positioned itself as…
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Midjourney Demands Hollywood Studios Expose Their AI Tools
In a bold legal counterpunch, Midjourney is forcing Disney, Warner Bros, and Universal to reveal exactly how they use AI…
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Google’s AI-Powered July 4th Ad Sparks Debate on History and Tech
Google just dropped a provocative July 4th commercial that’s got people talking. The spot imagines what might have happened if…
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NASA Taps Startup to Save Swift Satellite From Fiery Crash
NASA’s Swift Observatory is in a race against time. The 20-year-old satellite, pushed toward Earth by recent solar storms, could…
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Alibaba Bans Claude Code Over Security Fears
Alibaba just threw up a red flag on one of Silicon Valley’s hottest AI coding tools. The Chinese e-commerce and…
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The fanfiction community is at war with AI — and itself
Over the past week, a new fanworks movement has kicked off, with the aim to root out authors using generative…
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Mint Explainer | Why open-weight AI is gaining ground over proprietary models
“Most start-ups will go hybrid: frontier closed models for the hardest reasoning, open-weight models for the high-volume, latency-sensitive, or privacy-sensitive…
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