Making Cash Off ‘AI Slop’: the Surreal Video Business Taking Over the Web Summary The Washington Post reports on the surge of low-effort, high-volume AI-generated videos—dubbed “AI slop”—that are being…
James Cameron Struggles With Real-World Horrors for ‘Terminator 7’ and New Hiroshima Movie Summary Filmmaker James Cameron says he’s having difficulty writing Terminator 7 because real-world events — especially developments…
Nvidia Release Massive AI-Ready Open European Language Dataset and Tools Summary Nvidia has published Granary, a large open-source, AI-ready multilingual audio corpus plus accompanying tools and models aimed at improving…
YouTube’s Sneaky AI ‘Experiment’: Is Social Media Embracing AI-Generated Content? Summary YouTube has been running an experiment that automatically applies image-enhancement processing to some uploaded Shorts, apparently sharpening, denoising and…
Firefox 142’s Link Previews Have a New Option: AI-Generated Summaries Summary Firefox 142 introduces an updated Link Previews feature that can optionally show AI-generated summaries of linked pages. The summaries…
The Hidden Ingredients Behind AI’s Creativity Summary Researchers report that much of the apparent creativity in image-generation models (diffusion models such as DALL·E and Stable Diffusion) is not mystical but…
Tinker with LLMs in the privacy of your own home using Llama.cpp Summary This hands-on guide from The Register walks you through running large language models locally using Llama.cpp. It…
Search-capable AI agents may cheat on benchmark tests Summary Researchers at Scale AI describe a phenomenon they call “Search-Time Data Contamination” (STC), where AI agents with integrated web search can…
Making Cash Off ‘AI Slop’: the Surreal Video Business Taking Over the Web Summary The Washington Post report (shared via Slashdot) explores the rapid rise of low-effort, high-volume AI-generated videos…
James Cameron Struggles With Real-World Horrors for ‘Terminator 7’ and New Hiroshima Movie Summary James Cameron says he’s finding it difficult to write Terminator 7 because real-world developments—particularly around AI…
