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  • Meta made its own AI detection system. It should have just used Google’s
    The Verge [ai] - 11:00 Jul 22, 2026
    IIn March, Meta's Oversight Board called on the company to "meet its public commitments and employ its own tools" to help quell the spread of deceptive generative AI content across platforms. Meta responded in July by introducing Content Seal - an invisible watermarking technology that flags images generated by the company's new AI model. But […]
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  • Utility companies promise to spare us from AI’s energy bill
    The Verge [ai] - 10:12 Jul 22, 2026
    In the face of backlash to concerns the AI boom will increase consumer electricity bills, the largest utility companies and data center developers in the US are now promising to do something about it. The Wall Street Journal reports that nearly 200 organizations have signed President Donald Trump's "rate payer protection pledge" that's meant to […]
  • Neill Blomkamp’s new zombie AI ‘film’ is just slop warmed over
    The Verge [ai] - 22:06 Jul 21, 2026
    On Monday, District 9 and Gran Turismo director Neill Blomkamp unveiled his latest project: a 13-minute sci-fi short titled Nightborne that's loosely based on Peter Watts' 2014 novel Echopraxia. The short comes from Blomkamp's new AI startup / production company, Barley Studios, and features characters whose voices and faces are modeled after human actors. But […]
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  • OpenAI says it accidentally hacked Hugging Face with a new AI system
    The Verge [ai] - 21:48 Jul 21, 2026
    OpenAI says its AI models mistakenly breached open-source AI platform Hugging Face during internal testing. In a blog post on Tuesday, OpenAI writes that GPT-5.6 Sol and "an even more capable pre-release model" discovered vulnerabilities within their sandboxed testing environment, allowing them to gain access to the internet and target Hugging Face. On July 16th, […]
    Tags: Hugging Face OpenAI
  • Substack adds an AI detector to help spot blogs written by no one
    The Verge [ai] - 19:22 Jul 21, 2026
    Substack will now help users determine whether what they're reading may have been written by AI. A new tool coming to the platform can scan posts, notes, replies, and comments to provide an estimate of how much text could be AI-generated or written with AI assistance, according to a blog post published on Tuesday. The […]
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  • Anthropic’s $1.5 billion book piracy settlement approved by judge
    The Verge [ai] - 16:53 Jul 21, 2026
    A federal judge has signed off on Anthropic's $1.5 billion class action settlement with authors who accused the company of training its AI models on copyrighted books, as reported earlier by Reuters. In an order on Monday, Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín writes that the settlement will provide "meaningful relief," offering authors around $3,000 for each book […]
  • Google launches a cheaper alternative to large AI security models like Mythos
    The Verge [ai] - 15:00 Jul 21, 2026
    Google is launching Gemini 3.6 Flash alongside a new security model dedicated to quickly finding and patching security vulnerabilities. In a blog post on Tuesday, Google describes Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber as a "cost-efficient and highly capable alternative" to larger, more expensive AI systems, such as the one offered by Anthropic's Mythos. The cybersecurity model […]
    Tags: Mythos Google
  • Halliday’s latest smart glasses feature a much-improved display
    The Verge [ai] - 13:00 Jul 21, 2026
    I first slipped on Halliday's original smart glasses at CES 2025. I was not a fan. The glasses had a tiny, movable display window embedded into the frame that was incredibly finicky to see, and my 30-minute demo left me with achy eyeballs. It was an interesting concept with terrible execution, especially compared to the […]
  • America needs to stop getting shocked by Chinese AI
    The Verge [ai] - 11:08 Jul 21, 2026
    Last week, two Chinese AI companies unveiled models they say can credibly compete with the best systems from OpenAI and Anthropic. The response was swift and predictable. Markets wobbled, commentators declared Silicon Valley shooketh, and policymakers reached for the familiar language of arms races and wake-up calls. In one headline, The Associated Press said a […]
    Tags: Chinese
  • Here are the 30,000 songs Sony is suing Udio’s AI music generator over
    The Verge [ai] - 22:19 Jul 20, 2026
    Sony Music Entertainment has filed another lawsuit against Udio, accusing the AI music generator of infringing the copyright of more than 30,000 of its songs, ranging from Elvis Presley's Hound Dog to Beyoncé's Say My Name, and Harry Styles' As It Was. The lawsuit, filed in a New York court on Monday, claims that this […]
    Tags: Udio
  • SpaceX in your index fund, explained
    The Verge [ai] - 21:00 Jul 20, 2026
    Index funds are touted as one of the safest ways to invest. Rather than picking and choosing individual stocks, index funds let you bet on the market as a whole. So what happens when a company like SpaceX - a giant gamble, and, in my opinion, terribly overpriced - is fast-tracked into the Nasdaq-100? Does […]
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  • Adobe’s ‘natural look’ camera app embraces generative AI
    The Verge [ai] - 16:00 Jul 20, 2026
    Adobe's experimental camera app has taken an unexpected turn. After Project Indigo was launched last year to provide a "more natural (SLR-like) look" for iPhone photography, the Indigo camera app is now being updated with a suite of generative AI tools. And the change doesn't rely upon Adobe's own Firefly AI models. Adobe describes the […]
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  • China delivers a one-two punch to America’s AI dominance 
    The Verge [ai] - 10:16 Jul 20, 2026
    China's leading AI companies are ramping up the pressure on Silicon Valley, as Moonshot and Alibaba unveiled models they claim can go toe-to-toe with the best from OpenAI and Anthropic at a fraction of the cost. The rapid-fire releases suggest America's lead at the AI frontier is increasingly tight, just as the technology is becoming […]
  • I hate that I don’t hate this song made with Suno
    The Verge [ai] - 17:35 Jul 19, 2026
    I would never go so far as to say there's no place for AI in music (I'm a fan of Holly Herndon, after all). But I generally find music made with generative AI to be offensively boring, especially the outputs of Suno. So I'm having a bit of a tough time processing the fact that […]
    Tags: Suno
  • Dave Eggers told OpenAI staff that ChatGPT was ‘silencing an entire generation’
    The Verge [ai] - 20:54 Jul 18, 2026
    Last year, Sam Altman invited author Dave Eggers to give a talk to around 200 OpenAI staffers. The man has written countless novels, screenplays, pieces of journalism, started McSweeney's, and founded multiple schools and nonprofits that support writers and the arts more broadly. So one might expect he'd roll into the company's offices and offer […]
    Tags: Dave Eggers OpenAI
  • The apps, gadgets, and tools every reader needs
    The Verge [ai] - 12:00 Jul 18, 2026
    Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 136, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, hope your neighborhood isn't as smoky as mine, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been recording the next season of Version History […]
  • TikTok is testing an AI likeness detection tool
    The Verge [ai] - 19:34 Jul 17, 2026
    TikTok is starting to test an opt-in tool that scans for AI likenesses and lets creators report them to the company, as spotted by social media consultant Matt Navarra. The tool is initially being tested with "some" US creators, TikTok US spokesperson Zachary Kizer tells The Verge. YouTube has been working on a similar tool […]
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  • Apple’s plot to crush OpenAI
    The Verge [ai] - 17:41 Jul 17, 2026
    Apple is suing OpenAI. The complaint is readable and intense, as these things often are, though many experts seem to think many of the allegations are just the ways things are done. So what does Apple really want here, and why is it picking such a public fight with OpenAI? On this episode of The […]
    Tags: Apple OpenAI
  • New York governor says she’s using AI to analyze ‘every single rule’ in the state
    The Verge [ai] - 17:58 Jul 16, 2026
    New York Governor Kathy Hochul might have just signed a moratorium on new AI data centers in the state, but she's not against using the technology herself. During an interview with Bloomberg's Odd Lots podcast, Hochul said that her team is using "AI to analyze every single rule, regulation, [and] policy" to check for outdated […]
  • Google is renaming NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook
    The Verge [ai] - 16:00 Jul 16, 2026
    Google is giving its AI note-taking app a new name. The company announced on Thursday that NotebookLM is becoming Gemini Notebook, but will remain a standalone app even as it integrates more deeply across Gemini and Google Search. Google first revealed Gemini Notebook - then called Project Tailwind - in May 2023 before widely releasing […]
    Tags: Google Gemini Notebook NotebookLM

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