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They Gave Their Careers to Teaching. Then the Deepfakes Arrived
Luis DeSantiago found out he'd been turned into a deepfake while pouring coffee. It was March 12. The substitute teacher…
Ox Alpha appeared out of nowhere — so who’s actually running the new ‘stealth model’?
A free AI model showed up on OpenRouter on Thursday with no name attached to it, and within 48 hours…
Pett.ai confirms shutdown; digital pets go offline September 7
In Brief: Pett.ai (official site) is shutting down its operations, ceasing on September 7, 2026. Details on the fate of…
Anthropic is reportedly telling investors the truth about the AI backlash
The document that's supposed to sell investors on Anthropic will reportedly include a section about how much the public hates…
a16z’s board seats drew a year-long DOJ probe — will other VCs pull back?
The Justice Department has been investigating Andreessen Horowitz for nearly a year over board seats. Not fraud. Not securities violations.…
Netflix tried a language model against its hand-built recommendation logic
Netflix built its recommendation system on thousands of hand-crafted features, and a language model just beat it by 1.6 percent…
Peacock’s 8-episode oddball sci-fi series didn’t deserve to vanish after 3 years
A nun makes a deal with an all-powerful algorithm: find the Holy Grail, and the machine turns itself off. That's…
Psychology test methods expose major weaknesses in AI safety testing
A language model can climb the safety rankings without getting any safer. It just has to say no more often.…
NEXUS launches wasd text-to-game engine as part of new AI Labs portal
In brief NEXUS opened NEXUS AI Labs on Aug. 19, a portal collecting 11 AI solutions the company developed in-house.…
Intchains halts new Ethereum buys for a mining chip and an AI bet
Revenue down 94%. That's the number that reframes everything else Intchains Group said on Aug. 20, and it's the reason…