YouTube's feed now contains up to 33% AI-generated 'slop' content, with top channels earning millions annually as low-quality automated videos flood the platform and compete with human creators for ad revenue.
Google introduces sponsored advertisements to its AI Mode answer engine after providing one year of ad-free experience, placing labeled ads at the bottom of AI responses while maintaining citations in the sidebar as users grow comfortable with the interface.
Federal court orders OpenAI to surrender internal communications about deleting pirated book datasets after the AI company waived attorney-client privilege by changing explanations, potentially exposing billions in copyright infringement damages as authors strengthen their case against illegal book piracy used to train AI models.
Cohere expands its SAP partnership to deliver sovereign AI solutions meeting European data residency requirements, bringing its agentic AI platform North to SAP's cloud infrastructure for governments and regulated industries across finance, healthcare, manufacturing, and public sectors.
Anthropic cuts Claude Opus 4.5 pricing by 80% to $5 per million input tokens while doubling context to 200K and adding enhanced computer control features, though testing shows frontier AI models now perform so similarly that meaningful differences become nearly impossible to detect.
AI agents now write cleaner, superior code than human programmers, with developers successfully building complete web applications using only English instructions while AI handles all technical implementation and framework decisions automatically.
Google's NotebookLM AI assistant eliminates hallucinations by grounding responses exclusively in user-uploaded documents, transforming PDFs, websites, and videos into AI-generated podcasts, mind maps, flashcards, and other interactive content formats for personalized research and preparation tasks like job interviews.
Elon Musk's xAI secures massive $15 billion funding round at $230 billion valuation, closing December 19th despite Musk previously denying such reports on X, as AI investment frenzy continues with rivals OpenAI and Anthropic also raising billions.
Dragoneye unveils revolutionary AI Playground that creates custom video detection models in under 5 minutes without any training data, eliminating the need for thousands of hours of video annotation and massive financial investment traditionally required for video AI development.
Suno partners with Warner Music Group to launch groundbreaking AI music platform where fans can create songs using licensed artist voices, with participating musicians receiving compensation while the service expands beyond its 100 million users to offer new interactive experiences requiring paid accounts for downloads.