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 Amazon Quietly Rolls Back Its AI Anime Dubs After Massive Backlash

Amazon Quietly Rolls Back Its AI Anime Dubs After Massive Backlash

2025-12-12 Gizmodo
Why allow voice actors to do their job and dub content on Prime Video when artificial intelligence exists? The latest “innovative” idea from e-commerce giant Amazon involves the implementation of an artificial intelligence service aimed at generating dubbing for various Japanese titles on the platform, thus providi...
 The Last Video Rental Store Is Your Public Library

The Last Video Rental Store Is Your Public Library

2025-12-11 404 Media
Netflix, Prime Video, Disney, Hulu, HBO, countless streaming platforms, countless subscriptions to pay for, figures to keep track of, and, at the end of the day, none of the content you consume is really yours. What are you paying for? An “increasingly cheaper” subscription, but advertisements are increasing more a...
 Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn

Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn

2025-12-10 404 Media
As of 30 November 2025, half of the US states have approved and implemented legislation specifically dedicated to verifying the age of users accessing websites providing pornographic content. Following recent approval by Missouri, it is now necessary to provide biometric and personal identification data in order to acc...
 How can you tell if your new favourite artist is a real person?

How can you tell if your new favourite artist is a real person?

2025-12-09 BBC
Due to the unstoppable spread of artificial intelligence and content generated using this technology, it is becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish between the “human” and artificial nature of the material we consume on a daily basis. The vast majority of applications used have been invaded by artificially g...
 One in four unconcerned by sexual deepfakes created without consent, survey finds

One in four unconcerned by sexual deepfakes created without consent, survey finds

2025-12-05 The Guardian
According to a survey commissioned by the British police, one in four individuals consider themselves “neutral” (12% of responses) or believe that there is nothing wrong with using deepfake technology to create erotic content (13%), even when the subjects depicted have not given their consent. The main topic of the...
 Two Big Investors Just Offloaded All Their NVIDIA Shares

Two Big Investors Just Offloaded All Their NVIDIA Shares

2025-12-04 Motherboard - Vice
The current economic situation within the tech industry has reached unprecedented levels; due to the unstoppable rise of artificial intelligence, in fact, the eyes of the entire world are focused in one direction: the development and continuous support of the hardware necessary to fuel the improvement of this technolog...
 What Larry Ellison Doesn’t Want You To Know

What Larry Ellison Doesn’t Want You To Know

2025-12-03 More Perfect Union - Youtube
Some of the most influential people in the world today remain outside the general consciousness and culture of the people. The lack of knowledge about some of these figures is worrying; not knowing their names, their faces, their intentions puts viewers, ordinary people, those who suffer the consequences of their choic...
 Inside the California lab that shows the contradiction at the heart of the trillion-dollar AI race

Inside the California lab that shows the contradiction at the heart of the trillion-dollar AI race

2025-12-02 BBC
Google CEO Sundar Pichai, known for his extreme reserve, recently opened the doors of the Googleplex, the company's headquarters in California, to show it to the rest of the world. Inside the campus laboratory now resides one of the most potentially valuable objects for the economy of the entire planet, a tiny square n...
 TikTok is letting users control how much AI content they see

TikTok is letting users control how much AI content they see

2025-12-01 The Verge
Tired of yet another artificially generated video on your For You Page? Finally, TikTok, the online entertainment giant, will allow users to control the amount of AI-generated content that appears on their screens. It will be possible to view more or less, a change that will allow app users to tailor their experience t...
 Don't blindly trust what AI tells you, says Google's Sundar Pichai

Don't blindly trust what AI tells you, says Google's Sundar Pichai

2025-11-28 BBC
Trusting artificial intelligence is never a particularly wise idea. Generally, most users who are accustomed to surfing the Internet (responsibly) are quite used to taking information obtained from online sources with a pinch of salt. However, since AI appears as the first result following any search on a browser such ...
 Microsoft CEO says the company doesn't have enough electricity to install all the AI GPUs in its inventory - 'you may actually have a bunch of chips sitting in inventory that I can’t plug in'

Microsoft CEO says the company doesn't have enough electricity to install all the AI GPUs in its inventory - 'you may actually have a bunch of chips sitting in inventory that I can’t plug in'

2025-11-27 Tom's hardware
The frightening rise of artificial intelligence has just become even more terrifying. The current situation in the tech industry is peculiar, in that mountains are being moved (almost literally, considering the environmental damage) to ensure that all innovations have a chance to function, improve and grow, but a point...
 Python rejects $1.5M grant from U.S. govt. fearing ethical compromise

Python rejects $1.5M grant from U.S. govt. fearing ethical compromise

2025-11-26 Bleeping Computer
Obtaining government funding is generally not a particularly easy task. Companies, research groups and individual professionals struggle to obtain the funds they need to finance their activities, often ending up without any support whatsoever. The Python Software Foundation, on the other hand, recently withdrew its pro...
How ByteDance became the leader in China among artificial intelligence chatbots, ousting DeepSeek

How ByteDance became the leader in China among artificial intelligence chatbots, ousting DeepSeek

2025-11-25 WIRED
DeepSeek, a Chinese company specialising in artificial intelligence and Large Language Models, caused quite a stir at the beginning of 2025, only to disappear into nothingness. The fame it achieved in a matter of months at the beginning of the year had surprised the entire Silicon Valley, and beyond. Bytedance, the com...
 If you can’t afford a vacation, an AI app will sell you pictures of one

If you can’t afford a vacation, an AI app will sell you pictures of one

2025-11-24 The Verge
The art of ‘manifestation’ is a practice that is gradually gaining popularity in various parts of the world, including Italy. It consists of building a belief so strong that it makes your desires come true, from the simplest to the most complex; it is recommended to act, behave and live as if these desires had alre...
 Labor rules out giving tech giants free rein to mine copyright content to train AI

Labor rules out giving tech giants free rein to mine copyright content to train AI

2025-11-21 The Guardian
Following a series of requests and particularly negative reactions from various professionals in the creative field, the Albanian Government (on behalf of Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese) recently announced its long-awaited decision on a particularly popular topic in the current social-tech context. Accordi...
 ChatGPT's new browser has potential, if you're willing to pay

ChatGPT's new browser has potential, if you're willing to pay

2025-11-20 BBC
As mentioned in yesterday's article, OpenAI has recently released its own search browser, called ‘Atlas’. This project is accompanied by an artificial intelligence agent, an integrated feature designed to perform tasks autonomously, which is a potentially useful addition but, unfortunately, subject to several secur...