How a Guangzhou Law School Is Building Generative AI Into Legal Practice Courses
Education

How a Guangzhou Law School Is Building Generative AI Into Legal Practice Courses

A Guangdong law school has made AI-assisted legal practice a compulsory undergraduate course, combining role-playing sim...

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New Plaintiff Alleges Grok Turned a Childhood Photo Into Explicit Images
Technology

New Plaintiff Alleges Grok Turned a Childhood Photo Into Explicit Images

A fourth plaintiff has joined a class action alleging xAI failed to stop Grok from creating sexualized images of real mi...

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Google Edges Past Naver in Korean Mobile Users as AI Search Shifts the Web
Technology

Google Edges Past Naver in Korean Mobile Users as AI Search Shifts the Web

For the first time, Google's mobile app outranked Naver by monthly active users in South Korea, while ChatGPT's rise poi...

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Apple Trains a China-Specific AI Model With Alibaba
Technology

Apple Trains a China-Specific AI Model With Alibaba

The iPhone maker is shifting from relying solely on local AI partners to building its own China model, as it races to br...

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Why Generative AI Is Quietly Narrowing the Innovation Pipeline It Was Meant to Widen
Technology

Why Generative AI Is Quietly Narrowing the Innovation Pipeline It Was Meant to Widen

A cross-university working paper finds that AI used naively tends to deepen ideation, screening and consumer-insight bot...

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Brazil's TSE Delays AI Election Rules as Deepfakes Spread From Ireland to Pakistan
Politics

Brazil's TSE Delays AI Election Rules as Deepfakes Spread From Ireland to Pakistan

A postponed TSE meeting leaves Brazil without clear sanctions for AI-generated election content, while cases in Ireland,...

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Academic Editors Warn AI-Generated Reviews Are Creating a 'Missing Middle' in Scholarship
Education

Academic Editors Warn AI-Generated Reviews Are Creating a 'Missing Middle' in Scholarship

Journal editors say generative AI submissions are surging and erasing decades of peer-reviewed research, hurting knowled...

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Intact Insurance's AI Lead: Business Priorities, Not Data, Should Drive Transformation
Insurance

Intact Insurance's AI Lead: Business Priorities, Not Data, Should Drive Transformation

Intact's Luca Piccolo says insurers should map AI to strategic goals, deliver returns through 'vertical stripe' projects...

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Google Tests 'Ask YouTube' Conversational AI Search for Premium Users
Technology

Google Tests 'Ask YouTube' Conversational AI Search for Premium Users

YouTube is testing a new AI-generated search page that combines videos, Shorts, and text summaries. The Verge found it u...

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How a Slovak AI Interior Design Startup Hit 213,000 Users Without an Investor
Technology

How a Slovak AI Interior Design Startup Hit 213,000 Users Without an Investor

MeltFlex AI pivoted from hardware to 2D room redesigns, with AI model recommendations replacing paid ads. Most subscribe...

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T-Bank's IT Picnic Draws 30,000 as Tech Hiring and Community Building Converge
Technology

T-Bank's IT Picnic Draws 30,000 as Tech Hiring and Community Building Converge

The fourth T-Bank IT Picnic at Kolomenskoye drew 30,000 IT specialists and families for lectures, partner zones, sports ...

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Meta Launches Muse Spark AI Model, First From Overhauled Lab, Across Its Apps
Technology

Meta Launches Muse Spark AI Model, First From Overhauled Lab, Across Its Apps

Meta's Superintelligence Labs debuts Muse Spark, the first model from a multi-billion-dollar AI revamp, rolling out acro...

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Why Domain Experts Are Quietly Dropping Out of AI Innovation—And How to Keep Them
Companies

Why Domain Experts Are Quietly Dropping Out of AI Innovation—And How to Keep Them

A two-year field study reveals that the success of organization-wide gen AI solutions depends less on the technology and...

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Shiseido Japan's 130 AI Ambassadors Took Gemini Adoption Past 80% — Now Comes the Hard Part
Companies

Shiseido Japan's 130 AI Ambassadors Took Gemini Adoption Past 80% — Now Comes the Hard Part

Shiseido Japan used 130 employee 'AI ambassadors' to embed generative AI across 40 departments. Adoption is high, but ad...

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Pictet Security Fund Rides Cybersecurity Demand to a 34.8% YTD Gain
Markets

Pictet Security Fund Rides Cybersecurity Demand to a 34.8% YTD Gain

Pictet's security-themed fund returned +34.82% so far in 2026 on AI-driven demand; a concentrated US portfolio, but its ...

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NYU Vice Provost Argues Colleges Shouldn't Chase a Unified AI Policy
Education

NYU Vice Provost Argues Colleges Shouldn't Chase a Unified AI Policy

An NYU vice provost argues that searching for one campus-wide AI policy is the wrong goal — and that professors quietly ...

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TikTok Doubles AI Video Ad Length With Dreamina Seedance 2.5 Launch
Technology

TikTok Doubles AI Video Ad Length With Dreamina Seedance 2.5 Launch

TikTok's new ByteDance-built Seedance 2.5 model doubles AI video ad generation from 15 to 30 seconds, giving advertisers...

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IAB unveils AI visibility measurement framework to clean up fragmented ad-tech tools
Technology

IAB unveils AI visibility measurement framework to clean up fragmented ad-tech tools

The trade group’s new framework defines four Ps of AI visibility and two measurement tiers to help marketers compare mor...

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BTS choreographer Youngjun Choi's MVNT wants to be the AI Suno of K-pop dance
Technology

BTS choreographer Youngjun Choi's MVNT wants to be the AI Suno of K-pop dance

Choreographer Youngjun Choi and CEO Joon Jung are building MVNT, an AI dance generator that aims to give dancers royalti...

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EU AI Act transparency rules kick in: deepfakes must be labelled
Technology

EU AI Act transparency rules kick in: deepfakes must be labelled

EU AI Act transparency obligations take effect Aug 2: AI-generated content must be labelled and chatbots must identify t...

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Study: AI Chatbots Outperform Humans at Building 'Exploitable Trust' in Romance Scams
Technology

Study: AI Chatbots Outperform Humans at Building 'Exploitable Trust' in Romance Scams

A multi-university study shows Claude agents were more effective than human scammers at establishing trust over a week o...

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PwC Middle East Reports Riddled with AI-Generated False Citations, Investigation Reveals
Companies

PwC Middle East Reports Riddled with AI-Generated False Citations, Investigation Reveals

Four reports from PwC's Middle East practice contained fictitious footnotes, a made-up academic study, and a citation fr...

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DACH Leaders Dismiss AI Crisis Talk as 4 in 5 Report Productivity Gains
Technology

DACH Leaders Dismiss AI Crisis Talk as 4 in 5 Report Productivity Gains

A Campana & Schott survey of over 200 executives reveals widespread satisfaction with generative AI, but 83% say they ur...

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UK Lawmaker Seeks Court Order to Halt Grok’s Generation of Non-Consensual Sexualised Images
Technology

UK Lawmaker Seeks Court Order to Halt Grok’s Generation of Non-Consensual Sexualised Images

Jess Asato, a Labour MP, is suing Elon Musk's xAI, asking the High Court to force permanent technical measures to preven...

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Higgsfield AI Puts $85,000 in Credits on the Line to Lure Ad Creatives Away from the Pitch Deck
Companies

Higgsfield AI Puts $85,000 in Credits on the Line to Lure Ad Creatives Away from the Pitch Deck

The generative AI ad platform has teamed up with ADWEEK for a month-long competition that challenges agency and brand te...

Declan Byrne 👁 35 💬 0
Korea Artist Prize 2026 explores how AI, memory and the politics of images shape perception
Lifestyle

Korea Artist Prize 2026 explores how AI, memory and the politics of images shape perception

The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea unveils works by four finalists in its annual prize, each inte...

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HBR Overhauls Manager-to-Leader Transitions for the AI and Geopolitics Era
Companies

HBR Overhauls Manager-to-Leader Transitions for the AI and Geopolitics Era

Harvard Business Review’s seminal seven-transition model for moving from functional expert to enterprise leader has been...

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1010Benja’s Suno-Assisted Track Shows AI Music Can Escape ‘Slop’ – But Ethical Baggage Stays
Lifestyle

1010Benja’s Suno-Assisted Track Shows AI Music Can Escape ‘Slop’ – But Ethical Baggage Stays

The artist’s labour-intensive process on ‘Semiramis’ Dream’ proves generative music AI can transcend generic output when...

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