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2026-08-22AI / Video

Major YouTube creators are facing backlash for accepting AI money

Over the past few days, a number of prominent filmmaking content creators including Matti Haapoja and Sam "Kold" Kolder have posted videos of themselves demonstrating what's possible with AI platform Higgsfield.

2026-08-22AI / Models

Nvidia just showed that the harness, not the AI model, is now the real hero

Nvidia research shows that AI agents can perform well, and not go off the deep end, through fine-tuning, even if the AI model isn't that great at the task.

2026-08-22AI / Industry

Over 1 million people have clicked LinkedIn’s AI slop button

LinkedIn actually announced a "Seems like AI slop" button on July 30th, and the company says that a lot of people have already used it.

2026-08-21AI / Industry

Linkdaze’s smart calendar is built to run a household, not just track a schedule

Linkdaze's smart digital calendar stands out for not putting its features behind a paywall, including an AI meal planner tool.

2026-08-21AI / Industry

Google gives publishers a new way to fight AI-driven traffic losses

Google is giving publishers a new button that lets readers make them a preferred source across Search, Discover, and Google News, potentially boosting their traffic as AI search sends fewer clicks to the web.

2026-08-21AI / Industry

Google Discover is getting an AI chatbot-tuned feed

Google will soon allow you to customize your Discover feed by describing what you want to see.

2026-08-20AI / Industry

AI was supposed to win people over by now — it hasn’t

As AI becomes harder to avoid, consumers are growing more wary of the technology — and Silicon Valley is discovering that widespread adoption doesn’t necessarily lead to acceptance.

2026-08-20AI / Models

Cognition CEO denies report that SpaceX tried to acquire the startup

SpaceX was reportedly in talks to buy AI coding startup Cognition.

2026-08-20AI / Models

OpenAI seeks to one-up Anthropic with new customer privacy protections

A competition is developing between OpenAI and Anthropic over who can provide the best privacy protections for enterprise customer data.

2026-08-19AI / Security

OpenAI lays out new security changes after its AI hacked Hugging Face

OpenAI is announcing security updates following the July news that its AI broke out of a sandboxed environment and accidentally hacked Hugging Face, including improvements to its research environments, monitoring, and…

2026-08-19AI / Industry

Robin Williams’ Instagram account brought back to fight ‘AI abuse’

Robin Williams' children are taking over their father's Instagram account after his daughter spoke out against the use of his AI likeness, as reported earlier by The Wrap.

2026-08-19AI / Industry

Cursor capitalizes on Github frustration, launches rival hosting platform

Cursor, known for its AI Code Editor, is launching a new code hosting platform to rival developers' long preferred favorite, Github.

2026-08-18AI / Industry

Groq raises $350M to fuel its pivot from AI chips to neocloud

Groq raised $350 million at a $3.5 billion valuation as the former AI chipmaker pivots to a neocloud business and expands its Nvidia-powered data center footprint.

2026-08-18AI / Industry

Amazon, which started off selling books, is destroying rare texts to train AI

Rare books are incredibly valuable for training LLMs, since these models have already trained on whatever's available online.

2026-08-18AI / Industry

AI automation startup Relay shuts down, staff joins Google’s Chrome team

"We have some really ambitious plans to help you work with AI in Chrome to get things done, and I’ll have more to share soon," Jacob Bank, Relay founder and CEO, said.

2026-08-17AI / Industry

Why people aren’t buying Mark Zuckerberg’s AI future

On the latest episode of Equity podcast, we discuss why not everyone is buying Zuckerberg’s vision.

2026-08-17AI / Industry

Stripe will reportedly acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter for $7B+

OpenRouter's CEO recently described the startup as Stripe for AI.

2026-08-17AI / Models

OpenAI reportedly disbanded its preparedness team

According to the Financial Times, OpenAI disbanded its preparedness team at the end of last month.

2026-08-15AI / Robotics

Does Mark Zuckerberg really believe AI is ‘for everyone’?

Meta released Glimmer this week, an open-weight AI model anyone can download and run on their own hardware — a contrast to Muse Spark, the company’s more powerful model that stays locked behind…

2026-08-15AI / Industry

Google will now allow users to remove visible watermark from its AI generations

Turning off this setting won't affect invisible benchmarks used to identify an AI generated file.

2026-08-15AI / Video

You can now turn off Google Gemini’s visible watermarks

Google will now allow you to remove visible watermarks from the images, videos, and music made with AI tools.

News

Major YouTube creators are facing backlash for accepting AI money

Nvidia just showed that the harness, not the AI model, is now the real hero

Over 1 million people have clicked LinkedIn’s AI slop button

Linkdaze’s smart calendar is built to run a household, not just track a schedule

Google gives publishers a new way to fight AI-driven traffic losses

Google Discover is getting an AI chatbot-tuned feed

AI was supposed to win people over by now &#8212; it hasn&#8217;t

Cognition CEO denies report that SpaceX tried to acquire the startup

OpenAI seeks to one-up Anthropic with new customer privacy protections

OpenAI lays out new security changes after its AI hacked Hugging Face

Robin Williams’ Instagram account brought back to fight ‘AI abuse’

Cursor capitalizes on Github frustration, launches rival hosting platform

Groq raises $350M to fuel its pivot from AI chips to neocloud

Amazon, which started off selling books, is destroying rare texts to train AI

AI automation startup Relay shuts down, staff joins Google&#8217;s Chrome team

Why people aren&#8217;t buying Mark Zuckerberg’s AI future

Stripe will reportedly acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter for $7B+

OpenAI reportedly disbanded its preparedness team

Does Mark Zuckerberg really believe AI is &#8216;for everyone&#8217;?

Google will now allow users to remove visible watermark from its AI generations

You can now turn off Google Gemini&#8217;s visible watermarks

AI was supposed to win people over by now — it hasn’t

AI automation startup Relay shuts down, staff joins Google’s Chrome team

Why people aren’t buying Mark Zuckerberg’s AI future

Does Mark Zuckerberg really believe AI is ‘for everyone’?

You can now turn off Google Gemini’s visible watermarks