YouTube has permanently banned two channels notorious for flooding the platform with AI-generated fake movie trailers. The channels, Screen Culture and KH Studio, were caught mixing official footage with AI slop and had already been suspended once before.
A progressive political party is looking to turn local anger over data centers into political power. This comes as opposition grows over energy use, costs, and environmental impacts, influencing elections from Virginia to Georgia.
OpenAI is winning the campus AI war. The company has sold hundreds of thousands of ChatGPT licenses to dozens of public universities, giving it a massive head start over competitors like Microsoft. This move could shape how an entire generation learns to work with AI.
According to Fortune, small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) with 10-499 employees largely sidestepped the big AI layoffs. Instead, they used AI to scale, experimented relentlessly, and leveraged flexible talent, with nearly half maintaining high confidence through 2025’s economic shocks. Their app
Forget the doom-and-gloom headlines about AI stealing jobs. According to the CEO of mental wellness app Calm, the real story is about augmentation, not replacement. He sees a future where technology, like AI emotion-recognition tools, actually enhances our human capabilities at work.
OpenAI just released GPT Image 1.5 to all ChatGPT users. It’s a new “native multimodal” model that edits images by treating them like text, making alterations frighteningly simple. This is a clear move to counter Google’s recent gains in AI image generation.
Researchers are training robots on human motion data to make interactions like handshakes more natural. The goal is to move beyond reactive programming to socially aware behavior. But getting it right in the real world is proving difficult.
Anthropic is launching a week-long pilot program where an AI will interview users about their experiences with AI. The goal is social science research, but the company acknowledges the weird, self-referential nature of it.
Microsoft plans to upgrade Copilot in Excel with two major features starting in 2026. Agent Mode will help manage complex workbooks, while a new =COPILOT function will work directly inside formulas.
Ben, a London-based AI platform for managing global employee benefits, just secured €23.6 million in fresh funding. The round was led by Mercia Ventures and included backing from Revolut founder Nik Storonsky’s fund. This comes as the HR tech space sees a flurry of smaller, AI-driven investments acr
