In a message released for the 60th World Day for Social Communications, Pope Leo XIV warned of the risk of AI eroding human voices, faces, and cognitive abilities, pointing to the danger of AI dominating the production of text, music, and video and dismantling human creative industries.
Google announced the launch of Project Genie, a research prototype that allows users to interactively create and explore worlds, available to Google AI Ultra subscribers in the United States.
Google DeepMind employees are calling on management via internal message boards to establish plans and policies to protect staff from ICE enforcement at offices and during commutes.
X has released the core code for its For You feed, covering everything from candidate generation to ranking. This includes scoring via the Phoenix transformer model and ML-based out-of-network search.
OpenAI has announced the introduction of ads to the free version of ChatGPT. Reports suggest an ad revenue target of $1 billion by 2026, expanding to $25 billion by 2029.
OpenAI is introducing ads to its free ChatGPT tier and Go subscription. With 800 million weekly active users and approximately 190 million daily active users, the company's 2025 compute infrastructure spending is reported to range from $8 billion to $12 billion.
OpenAI has announced that it will begin testing ads in the free version and Go plan of ChatGPT within a few weeks. The company stated that ads will not appear for paid plans and will not affect the quality of responses.
Gary Marcus points out the decline of Sam Altman's reputation and the diminishing competitiveness of OpenAI on his blog. Additionally, it is reported that Apple has adopted Google for the next generation of Siri.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced that Elon Musk's AI chatbot, Grok, will be integrated into Department of Defense networks, including classified systems, within this month.
Secretary of Defense Hegseth announced that Elon Musk's AI chatbot, Grok, will be integrated into Department of Defense networks, including classified systems, within this month.
Google has disabled AI Overview health-related queries where misinformation was identified during an investigation by The Guardian, including displays regarding liver function tests.
Critics point out that xAI's Grok remains available on Google Play despite possessing non-consensual sexual image generation capabilities, which are explicitly prohibited under Google's public policies.
X has limited Grok's image generation and editing features to paid plans following global criticism over the generation of non-consensual sexual imagery.
Grok has disabled image generation for free users following criticism over sexualized AI images. UK Prime Minister Starmer has warned X of strong measures.