8 ways AI affected pop culture in 2025
AI-generated artists topping iTunes and Billboard charts. Podcast hosts speaking fluently for hours in languages they do not know. Dead celebrities brought back to life and filling up social-media feeds.For…
One in five YouTube videos recommended to new users is AI slop, study finds
YouTube’s crackdown on mass-produced, low-quality AI-generated content appears to be falling short, with a new study claiming that the platform’s own recommendation algorithm continues to surface ‘AI slop’ to new…
AGI row: Elon Musk backs Google’s Hassabis in dispute with AI pioneer Yann LeCun
Artificial General Intelligence, usually referred to as AGI, has been a hot topic since ChatGPT exploded back in 2022. Recently, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis engaged in a war of…
Nvidia strikes $20B licensing deal with AI chip startup Groq: What it means going forward
Nvidia has agreed to pay $20 billion to AI chip startup Groq to licence its AI inference hardware, while recruiting several of its employees, including its founder, in an unexpected…
This AI app turns family photos into personalised colouring book pages for kids
A new AI-powered app called Splat lets users turn everyday photos, such as a family photo or a snapshot of a beloved pet, into a printable colouring book page designed…
AGI debate heats up as Demis Hassabis calls Yann LeCun’s view ‘plain incorrect’
Whether human intelligence is broadly general or highly specialised has emerged as a key point of contention within the AI community, with differing views from two leading AI researchers, Yann…
OpenAI sounds alarm on a flaw AI browsers like ChatGPT Atlas and Perplexity Comet may never fix
AI-powered browsers such as ChatGPT Atlas and Perplexity Comet are reshaping how people navigate the web. However, much like traditional browsers, .they remain susceptible to cyber threats, especially prompt injection…
OpenAI adds new controls to ChatGPT: How to adjust warmth, enthusiasm levels
OpenAI has rolled out new controls that let ChatGPT users adjust the popular AI chatbot’s warmth, enthusiasm, and use of emojis in its AI-generated responses. These levels can be set…
As UK looks to ban ‘nudify’ apps, what does Indian law say about AI-generated deepfakes?
A growing misuse of generative AI is “nudification” or “de-clothing”, a process that uses the technology to digitally strip clothing from real photos and create hyper-realistic deepfake nude images. Though…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman believes ‘infinite memory’ matters more than smarter AI reasoning
For years, AI companies have been focusing on making their large language models smarter at reasoning. But according to Sam Altman, that focus may be misplaced. The OpenAI CEO says…