
Engadget - 1 hour 10 min ago
Merriam-Webster has selected "slop" for the dictionary company's 2025 word of the year. The leading lexicographers define slop as "digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of artificial intelligence." We've seen an absolute deluge of AI slop this year, from fake movie trailers on YouTube to AI-generated bands on Spotify . Not even food delivery like Uber Eats could escape the onslaught of AI-generated garbage that no one asked for. It's...

The Guardian - 2 hours 20 min ago
Blaise Metreweli warns the world is more dangerous and contested now than for decades' as AI and new technologies emerge Britain is caught in "a space between peace and war" complicated by the rise of artificial intelligence and other technologies dominated by powerful individuals and corporations, according to the new head of MI6. Blaise Metreweli, giving her first speech in the job, also accused Russia of being insincere about Ukraine peace negotiations but made minimal reference to...

Chicago Tribune - 2 hours 27 min ago
Creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content is often called "slop." The word's proliferation online, in part thanks to the widespread availability of generative artificial intelligence, landed it Merriam-Webster's 2025 word of the year.

NBC News - 4 hours 46 min ago
Getting your finances in order may not be at the top of your to-do list but using AI could make it much easier! NBC's Vicky Nugyen joins TODAY with tips to manage your money including using artificial intelligence to create a budget, come up with a cost-efficient way to pay down debt, and how the right prompts will produce results tailored to your specific goals.

Tech Meme - 5 hours 14 min ago
Erin Griffith / New York Times : Lightspeed raised a record $9B across six funds to invest in AI, with $3.3B to back breakout companies like Anthropic; Lightspeed has backed 165 AI startups — The artificial intelligence boom is expensive, prompting venture capital firms to raise enormous sums to keep up.

Black Enterprise - 6 hours 59 min ago
As more students utilize artificial intelligence (AI) inside and outside the classroom, they are outpacing schools in the adoption of generative AI tools for learning.

Tech Meme - 7 hours 24 min ago
Caroline Hyde / Bloomberg : AI drug discovery startup Chai Discovery raised a $130M Series B led by Oak HC/FT and General Catalyst at a $1.3B valuation, taking its total funding to $225M — Chai Discovery, an artificial intelligence drug-discovery company backed by OpenAI, has raised $130 million to build a "computer-aided design suite" for molecules.

Newser - 11 hours 59 min ago
Creepy, zany, and demonstrably fake content is often called "slop." The word's proliferation online, in part thanks to the widespread availability of generative artificial intelligence, landed it Merriam-Webster's 2025 word of the year, the AP reports. "It's such an illustrative word," said Greg Barlow, Merriam-Webster's president, in an exclusive interview...

ABC News - 13 hours 7 min ago
The Islamic State group and other militant organizations are experimenting with artificial intelligence as a tool to boost recruitment and refine their operations...

UPI - 13 hours 56 min ago
TSMC, the world's largest contract chipmaker, is considering producing artificial intelligence-related semiconductors at its Kumamoto plant in Japan...

Digital Music News - 14 hours 9 min ago
At least 175,000 AI-generated podcast episodes are available on platforms like Spotify and Apple. This company is churning out 3,000 episodes a week. As the rise of artificial intelligence seems to affect most of the entertainment and tech sectors, at least podcasting remains safe, right? Wrong. Already, there are at least 175,000 AI-generated podcast episodes […]...

NPR - 20 hours 54 min ago
Alex Bores, a New York State Assembly member who sponsored an AI regulation bill, responds to President Trump's executive order aimed at blocking state oversight of artificial intelligence.

Newser - 23 hours 19 min ago
McDonald's latest holiday ad tried to skewer Christmas stress, but it ended up being pulled after viewers panned it as AI junk. The 45-second spot, produced for McDonald's Netherlands, used artificial intelligence to depict a chaotic "most terrible time of the year," with rapid-fire scenes of falling Christmas trees, burned...