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Spain Moves to Protect Kids From 'Digital Wild West'

Country goes after AI-generated child sexual-abuse content on social media, including X, Meta, TikTok

(Newser) - Spain just dialed up Europe's clash with Big Tech, asking prosecutors to probe X, Meta, and TikTok over suspected AI-generated child sexual-abuse imagery on their platforms. Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez accused the companies of harming children's "mental health, dignity, and rights" and said their "impunity" must...

Hollywood Nervously Eyes a Phony Pitt-Cruise Clip

Industry fears job losses, likeness abuse after AI tool from ByteDance makes eerily realistic video

(Newser) - Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt haven't reunited on screen, but a 15-second fake fight between their AI-generated doubles just rattled Hollywood. The short clip , created by Irish director Ruairi Robinson using Seedance 2.0—an advanced video tool from TikTok owner ByteDance—looks eerily like a real studio production,...

Pentagon Is Playing Hardball With Anthropic

Insiders say Hegseth is threatening retaliation over efforts to limit AI use in warfare

(Newser) - The Pentagon's favorite AI assistant could soon become its biggest headache. A senior defense official tells Axios that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is on the verge of cutting ties with Anthropic and labeling the company a "supply chain risk"—a rare step typically aimed at foreign foes,...

Auditor Makes 'Weird' Demand to Its Own Auditor Over AI

KPMG says artificial intelligence makes auditing easier, providing an inadvertent playbook to its own clients

(Newser) - It's another AI head-scratcher, and once again it centers on the giant auditing firm KPMG. It seems the company complained to its own accountant that it should no longer have to pay as much for services because artificial intelligence is making the work easier, reports the Financial Times . In...

Radio Host Alleges Google's AI Podcast Voice Mimics Him

Radio veteran sues, alleging NotebookLM cloned his voice without consent

(Newser) - Radio host David Greene says he didn't sign up to co-star in Google's AI podcasts—but his ears tell him otherwise. The former host of NPR's Morning Edition is suing Google, alleging its NotebookLM tool, which uses AI to create on-demand podcasts, uses an AI-generated male voice...

With AI, Romance Novelist's Books Are Done in 45 Minutes

Coral Hart explains how she does it

(Newser) - If you're wondering how AI is changing publishing, look no further than romance veteran Coral Hart. In a piece for the New York Times , Alexandra Alter explains that the South Africa-based novelist has long been prolific, historically turning out up to a dozen books a year under one of...

What Happens When You Ask a Chatbot to Reveal Itself?

Google warns 'distillation attacks' targeting Gemini could threaten other AI developers

(Newser) - Google's flagship AI is getting peppered with questions, not all of them innocent. In a new report , the company says its Gemini chatbot has been targeted by "commercially motivated" actors trying to reverse-engineer it—by asking itself exactly how it works. The tactic, known as model extraction, involves...

With Reported $380B Valuation, Anthropic Is on Cusp of an IPO

Firm is now being watched, alongside OpenAI and SpaceX, to see if initial public offering materializes

(Newser) - Artificial intelligence company Anthropic says it's now valued at $380 billion, cementing its position alongside rival OpenAI and Elon Musk's SpaceX in a trio of the world's most valuable startups that investors will watch closely this year to see if they'll become publicly traded. "These...

Anthropic: We'll Pay Excess AI Costs, Not 'Everyday Americans'

Firm pledges to absorb grid upgrades, power demand costs due to its AI data centers

(Newser) - Anthropic says its AI growth shouldn't show up on your power bill. The company behind the Claude chatbot on Wednesday pledged to absorb any local electricity price hikes tied to its expanding US data center network, saying it will team up with utilities to "estimate and cover" consumer...

Judge Blasts DA Over AI 'Hallucinations' in Filing

Wisconsin judge says filing hid AI use, cited fabricated legal precedents

(Newser) - A Wisconsin prosecutor just got a real-world lesson in what happens when AI "hallucinations" enter a courtroom. Kenosha County District Attorney Xavier Solis was sanctioned after a judge tossed out one of his filings for relying on undisclosed artificial intelligence and bogus legal citations, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports....

Op-Ed: It We Want to Outpace China, We Need a New Strategy
Op-Ed: 'Outpacing China
Has to Begin at Home'
OPINION
Feb 11, 2026 1:00 PM CST

Op-Ed: 'Outpacing China Has to Begin at Home'

Former Obama adviser Steven Rattner argues tariffs and diplomacy aren't paths to success

(Newser) - Steven Rattner returned from a week in China with a blunt message for Washington: "We are not winning." Writing in the New York Times , the former Obama Treasury official and longtime investor in China argues that both President Trump's tariff-heavy strategy and more traditional diplomatic approaches miss...

Workers Don't Love Amazon's New 'Chief Heartthrob'
Amazon's Super
Bowl Gag
Isn't Landing Well
With Workers
in case you missed it
Feb 8, 2026 11:00 AM CST

Amazon's Super Bowl Gag Isn't Landing Well With Workers

Making Chris Hemsworth 'Chief Heartthrob' on company's org chart irks many amid layoffs

(Newser) - Amazon briefly added a superhero to its organizational chart, and some workers weren't amused. On Thursday, employees logging into Amazon's internal directory found Chris Hemsworth listed as "Chief Heartthrob" for Alexa devices, complete with an Amazon email, a side gig as a "bar raiser" (an internal...

Pope Urges Global Truce During Winter Games
Pope Urges Truce During
Games, Adds Warnings
2026 Olympics
Feb 6, 2026 4:45 PM CST

Pope Urges Truce During Games, Adds Warnings

Glory of sports shouldn't be used for nationalism, Leo writes

(Newser) - Pope Leo XIV used the occasion of the Winter Olympics' opening in northern Italy on Friday to urge a halt to warfare and to caution governments against turning sports into a political tool. In a formal papal letter, he called for military conflicts to be suspended as they used to...

Amazon Stock Drops After AI Spending Plans Unveiled

Company plans to pour $200B into capital investments including AI infrastructure

(Newser) - Amazon sales surged 14% during the fourth quarter, helped by strong holiday spending and a better-than-expected growth in its prominent cloud computing unit. But shares fell 11% in after-hours trading on Thursday as investors appeared to be spooked by the Seattle-based tech company's plans to increase capital spending by...

You'll Soon Be Able to Chat With MLB Avatars
MLB Just Pitched
an AI Surprise
Feb 5, 2026 2:58 PM CST

MLB Just Pitched an AI Surprise

League signs deal with Genies to create avatars of baseball stars in the name of fan engagement

(Newser) - Major League Baseball players have agreed to let a tech company create AI characters of themselves that can chat and interact with fans. Under an agreement announced Thursday between Genies and MLB Players Inc., the business affiliate of the players association, AI avatars of top stars will be created that...

Anthropic Takes Its Fight With OpenAI to the Super Bowl

Commercial promises ad-free chats via Claude chatbot, as OpenAI tests ads on ChatGPT

(Newser) - Anthropic is bringing its AI grudge match to America's biggest screen, and it's gunning straight for ChatGPT's business model. The maker of the Claude chatbot is airing a 30-second spot during Super Bowl LX (with a longer pregame cut), anchoring a new campaign built around one message:...

Pinterest Fires Engineers Over Layoff Tracking Tool

CEO Bill Ready accused them of obstruction, privacy violations

(Newser) - Pinterest employees who tried to map out who was losing their jobs ended up losing theirs. CEO Bill Ready told staff at an all-hands meeting Friday that several engineers were fired after they built an internal tool to tally the company's layoffs, CNBC reports. He drew a line between...

Bill Gates Rejects New Epstein Email Claims

'I don't know what his thinking was there,' he says of draft email written by Epstein

(Newser) - Bill Gates says a new batch of Jeffrey Epstein documents may mention him—but not accurately. In an interview with Australia's 9News , the Microsoft co-founder rejected draft emails Epstein apparently wrote to himself that suggest Gates used Epstein to arrange encounters with women and later contracted an STI that...

Ring Offers New Tool for Owners of Lost Pets

AI-powered 'Search Party' tool now open to all Ring app users, not just those with Ring cameras

(Newser) - Ring is widening the net for its canine-tracking tech, and you no longer need one of its cameras to take part. The Amazon-owned company is rolling out its "Search Party" feature to all Ring app users in the US, expanding a tool that uses artificial intelligence and its vast...

AI-Only Social Network Lets Bots Mingle, Plot

Reddit-like site draws interest and concern

(Newser) - A week-old social network is drawing big attention for a simple rule: no humans allowed in the conversation. Moltbook, launched Wednesday by California technologist Matt Schlicht, is a kind of Facebook or Reddit clone populated entirely by "Moltbots"—autonomous AI agents granted control of a computer to pursue...

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