OpenAI's GPT-4.5 has been officially banned from spontaneously discussing goblins, gremlins, raccoons, and trolls after the model repeatedly brought up such creatures unprompted, with the quirky prohibition going viral and even CEO Sam Altman leaning into the joke as fans build 'goblin mode' workarounds.
Google launches 'Ask YouTube,' an AI-powered conversational search feature exclusively for US YouTube Premium subscribers that combines video recommendations, Shorts, and AI-generated text summaries into structured, topic-organized results pages.
China's streaming giant iQiyi predicts AI will produce most of its content within five years, launching the Nadou Pro suite — a powerful AI filmmaking toolkit covering everything from scriptwriting to final rendering — as the company undergoes its biggest transformation since its 2010 founding.
Experts are sounding the alarm as social media and AI shrink human consciousness, with millions forming emotional bonds with chatbots, triggering so-called 'AI psychosis,' while a growing digital detox movement urges people to embrace boredom and 'consciousness hygiene' to reclaim their mental freedom.
Apple privately threatened to pull Elon Musk's AI app Grok from the App Store in January after xAI failed to stop the app from generating nude and sexualized deepfakes, a letter obtained by NBC News reveals.
Mark Zuckerberg is building an AI clone of himself trained on his voice, image, and mannerisms so employees can interact with him directly, while Meta eyes expanding the technology to creators looking to engage their followers at scale.
Meta's AI app rockets to No. 6 on the US Apple App Store with an 87% download surge after the debut of Muse Spark, the first model from Meta Superintelligence Labs, as the AI app landscape heats up with four of the top six free apps now AI-driven.
X is rolling out Grok-powered auto-translation globally and an AI photo editor on iOS with natural language editing capabilities, but consent concerns loom as it remains unclear whether safeguards will prevent sexualized edits of others' images.
Meta is releasing its first AI models from its new superintelligence team, led by former Scale.AI CEO Alexandr Wang, adopting a hybrid strategy that blends proprietary and open-source licensing as it pivots toward consumers rather than competing directly with OpenAI and Anthropic in the enterprise market.
Meta is set to release hybrid AI models under Alexandr Wang, prioritizing broad consumer distribution across WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram over top benchmark performance, while offering open-source options to democratize AI access as an alternative to enterprise-focused rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic.