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 HarperCollins Will Use AI to Translate Harlequin Romance Novels

HarperCollins Will Use AI to Translate Harlequin Romance Novels

2026-01-21 404 Media
Writing a book undoubtedly requires the writer to possess a human soul. As we have seen several times in the past, the use of artificial intelligence in writing a novel produces results that are undoubtedly unpleasant, clearly lacking the true and real emotion of the human touch. The same line of thinking applies, as c...
 Are You Dead?: The viral Chinese app for young people living alone

Are You Dead?: The viral Chinese app for young people living alone

2026-01-20 BBC
There comes a time, sooner or later, in everyone's life when they are forced to live alone, whether due to a temporary move for study or work, a search for new independence, or personal necessity. Living alone, however, despite being a goal widely sought after by younger people, is also an almost inevitable outcome for...
 Hollywood cozied up to AI in 2025 and had nothing good to show for it

Hollywood cozied up to AI in 2025 and had nothing good to show for it

2026-01-19 The Verge
The presence of artificial intelligence in the entertainment industry is actually much more common than one might think. Before the rise of this technology as we know it today, AI was used in the entertainment industry for technological practices that required support: to rejuvenate actors, remove green screens, or hel...
 ICE Contracts Company Making Bounty Hunter AI Agents

ICE Contracts Company Making Bounty Hunter AI Agents

2026-01-16 404 Media
The regime of terror sadly perpetrated by the US government through the actions of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has accompanied the Trump presidency since its inception, forcing more and more innocent people to leave their homes and endure psychologically and physically traumatic experiences, if not worse....
 Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves

Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves

2026-01-15 404 Media
During December 2025, the video surveillance company Flock Safety inadvertently left the live streams and control panels of several cameras in their possession completely exposed on the network of the vast world of the Internet. This “oversight” involved 60 Condor cameras equipped with artificial intelligence, the ...
 Italy tells Meta to suspend its policy that bans rival AI chatbots from WhatsApp

Italy tells Meta to suspend its policy that bans rival AI chatbots from WhatsApp

2026-01-14 Techcrunch
Meta, the famous company behind Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, seems to be the talk of the town once again. Several months ago, the Italian Competition and Market Authority (AGCM) launched an investigation into the company. During this investigation, in November, the authority closed ranks on the company following c...
 Spotify's entire catalog ends up on Torrent: approximately 300 TB of data

Spotify's entire catalog ends up on Torrent: approximately 300 TB of data

2026-01-13 HD Blog
Thank god for streaming services, every now and then. On those evenings when there is nothing to watch, on those afternoons when you don't know what to listen to, in those moments when it is easier and more immediate to access a service and get something that might satisfy your desires. However, since the spread of thi...
 Hack Reveals the a16z-Backed Phone Farm Flooding TikTok With AI Influencers

Hack Reveals the a16z-Backed Phone Farm Flooding TikTok With AI Influencers

2026-01-12 404 Media
Following the rise of artificial intelligence in the social media landscape, more and more content produced by this technology is filling the world's most popular platforms. “Real” AI influencers promoting products that often do not exist or are of dangerously poor quality, videos depicting events that never happen...
 AI boom has caused same CO2 emissions in 2025 as New York City, report claims

AI boom has caused same CO2 emissions in 2025 as New York City, report claims

2026-01-09 The Guardian
According to recently published research, the global environmental impact of artificial intelligence has reached levels never seen before: water consumption linked to this technology currently exceeds the entire global demand for bottled water, and the boom in this controversial resource has caused CO2 emissions into t...
 Third of UK citizens have used AI for emotional support, research reveals

Third of UK citizens have used AI for emotional support, research reveals

2026-01-08 The Guardian
More and more people are turning to artificial intelligence in search of emotional support. Young people struggling with the endless wait for their diagnoses, adults living alone in need of company, teenagers misunderstood by their parents; different generations need different kinds of support. According to recent res...
 Adobe hit with proposed class-action, accused of misusing authors’ work in AI training

Adobe hit with proposed class-action, accused of misusing authors’ work in AI training

2026-01-07 Techcrunch
Artificial intelligence is everywhere. In every social media platform, in every software program. In recent years, countless companies have implemented this technology into their operations, adding features and tools based precisely on this controversial resource. The digital video graphics giant Adobe, of course, is n...
 Anthropic Exec Forces AI Chatbot on Gay Discord Community, Members Flee

Anthropic Exec Forces AI Chatbot on Gay Discord Community, Members Flee

2026-01-05 404 Media
It seems almost absurd to think of having to leave your community, a safe space, a place where you can be yourself without worrying about other people's judgments, because of an AI chatbot. However, this is precisely what happened on a Discord server dedicated to gay gamers over the age of 30. Every user's online expe...
 'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022

'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022

2026-01-02 404 Media
The spread of artificial intelligence shows no signs of stopping in the near future. Countless pieces of content generated using this technology now exist in every corner of the vast world of the internet, contaminating all that material created by humans with images, videos, and texts obviously produced by a subject w...
 The New York Times is suing Perplexity for copyright infringement

The New York Times is suing Perplexity for copyright infringement

2025-12-30 TechCrunch
More and more media outlets and newspapers are suing yet another AI company that is now passionate about the misuse of texts, news, and copyrighted works, obviously fed to their artificial intelligence models. The New York Times, in fact, has recently joined the list of actors suing Perplexity AI, a company that is qui...
 ChatGPT Told a Violent Stalker to Embrace the 'Haters,' Indictment Says

ChatGPT Told a Violent Stalker to Embrace the 'Haters,' Indictment Says

2025-12-29 404Media
The influence of chatbot words on the users they communicate with is a hot topic that is increasingly being discussed, generally in a negative light. Negative because artificial intelligence is unable to recognize and consider potential disturbances or anomalies in user behavior, thus fueling and supporting decisions a...
 Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities

Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities

2025-12-23 Financial Times
If you have $1,500 to spare each month, why not head to Balaji Srinivasan's prestigious “Network School,” conveniently located on an artificial island near Singapore? It's the perfect place for all tech enthusiasts looking for an opportunity to learn how to start a new company—and not a commercial one. The former...