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Most of this holiday season's projected $253 billion in US online sales will happen through website visits or standard online searches that favor companies that spend big on search engine ads. But chatbots like OpenAI's ChatGPT or Google's Gemini have become part of the mix, with shopper-facing tools that can give product descriptions, compare prices, or allow purchases directly within large-language models as US consumers increasingly use AI for advice on the best holiday stocking stuffers.

As a kid, I woke up every Thanksgiving morning just to watch the parade. I was captivated by the energy and the brands that made it to that stage,

The expression "AI hallucination" is well-known to anyone who's experienced ChatGPT or Gemini or Perplexity spouting obvious falsehoods, which is pretty much anyone who's ever used an AI chatbot. Only, it's an expression that's incorrect. The proper term for when a large language model or other generative AI program asserts falsehoods is not a hallucination but a "confabulation." AI doesn't hallucinate, it confabulates.

The NHL 26 Deluxe Edition features the Tkachuk hockey family on the cover. The Panthers' Matthew Tkachuk and Senators' Brady Tkachuk appear alongside their father, the legendary power forward Keith Tkachuk, beneath bright lights on a hazy skating rink. What EA hasn't previously disclosed is that it employed generative AI tools to help with the creation of the $100 version's promotional art.

YouTube's expanding access to some of its experimental generative AI features, while it's also got some new updates for Communities, as per this week's update. First off, on AI tools. YouTube says that it's expanding to various AI editing features, including standalone clips, green screen backgrounds, its "AI playground," and more. That could be an interesting addition, providing all new ways to create with YouTube's evolving AI tools, though YouTube has presumably also enacted restrictions on the use of such with copyright-protected characters and scenes.

The case concerned the training, development and deployment of Stability AI's "Stable Diffusion" generative AI model and, as one of the first and to date most high-profile intellectual property ( IP) infringement claims against an AI developer to make it all the way to trial in the UK courts, was originally envisaged as having potential to provide much-needed wide-ranging judicial guidance on the application of existing UK IP law in the field of AI.

The biggest change isn't that other tools have vanished. It's that ChatGPT has become the new front door to information. Within months of its introduction on Nov. 30, 2022, ChatGPT had 100 million weekly users. By late 2025, that figure had grown to 800 million. That makes it one of the most widely used consumer technologies on the planet. Surveys show that this use isn't just curiosity - it reflects a real change in behavior.

"We need to make sure it's tangible and tactical in what it does."

Abigail Wendling, 23, uses Pinterest to curate everything in her life, from recipes to wallpapers. At least until she saw a one-eyed cat when searching for a wallpaper. In another instance, a search for healthy recipes turned up a puzzling image showing a slice of cooked chicken with seasonings sprinkled inside it. These posts were created by generative AI, which is quickly overtaking the photo-first platform.

Today's Xbox Partner Preview had a bunch of big announcements and trailers like a new look at the upcoming 007 First Light and the reveal of a follow-up to Vampire Survivors, but one of the surprise standouts for me was Zoopunk, a new action game by F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch developer TiGames, starring a bunch of anthropomorphic animals in a sort of dark, science-fiction post-apocalypse.

Video Recaps uses AI to identify a show's important plot points and create a short but "theatrical-quality" summary video that combines a selection of clips with music, dialogue, and narration. The Video Recaps feature is being rolled out starting this week in beta on some English-language Prime Original series including Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, Upload, Bosch, The Rig, and Fallout (ahead of season two's premiere on December 17th, 2025). Amazon says available recaps, including the text-based X-Ray Recaps it introduced a year ago, will be accessible through a recap button on the detail page when a "customer navigates to the next season of a supported series."

Data and analytics jobs really stand out, though. This sector had a Jobs Posting Index of 60, the lowest of all sectors Indeed tracked as of the end of October. That means there are 40% fewer data and analytics job openings than before the pandemic. Even worse: There is still a rising number of applications per job in this sector, according to Indeed.

With that dubious success rate in mind, CPG advertiser Reckitt has taken a strict approach to its own generative AI marketing projects, piloting specific use cases designed to save its staffers time and stress before rolling them out to its 700-strong marketing organization. The approach - which Bastien Parizot, Reckitt's svp of IT and digital calls "functional reinvention" of the marketing workflow - has delivered, speeding up creative asset adaptation by 30%.

"The transition to generative AI is transformational and necessary, supercharging existing applications and business models, and the transition to agentic and physical AI will be revolutionary, giving rise to new applications, companies, products and services," said Huang.

Grills don't need AI, but you might need an AI grill. When it debuted at CES early this year, the Brisk It Zelos-450 was advertised as being "the first grill with generative AI." That AI comes in the form of "Vera," an in-app feature that "creates customized recipes based on your input" and then sets the grill's temperature to cook them.

US research firm Gartner predicts that IT spending in Europe will increase by 11% to a total of $1.4 trillion in 2026. Growth is expected to be driven by AI, cloud computing and cybersecurity, despite limited IT budgets and few new hires. Spending on generative AI is expected to grow by 78%, while cloud investments will increase by 24% as companies increasingly move services to Europe for sovereignty reasons.

I guess we're past the era of " and that's what you missed on Glee." Amazon's Prime Video streamer is adding AI-generated "Video Recaps" to help viewers catch up between seasons of shows, the company announced on Wednesday. According to Amazon, the feature "utilizes generative AI to create theatrical-quality season recaps with synchronized narration, dialogue, and music." It will begin rolling out in beta on Wednesday for select Prime Originals, like "Fallout," "Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan," and "Upload."

TikTok is testing a new feature that allows users to limit the amount of AI-generated content they see in their FYP feeds. Users will soon be able to head over to the "manage topics" page in their settings and use a sliding bar to choose to see fewer AI-generated videos. The feature, set to roll out in the coming weeks, reduces rather than eliminates AI content. It also does not impact videos on content pages other than the FYP within TikTok, like the "following" feed.

Adobe is acquiring Semrush for $1.9 billion. The creator of Photoshop and Acrobat wants to expand its marketing offering with SEO and AI search capabilities. The acquisition should help Adobe give companies better insight into their online visibility. Adobe is paying $12 per share, a premium of 77.5 percent over Tuesday's closing price. Semrush shares rose 55 percent before the market opened, a logical consequence of the news.

I tried to fool my brother, sort of. Next to him and his Pekingese on the couch, without context or introduction, I played an audio clip of me-deepfake audio of my voice that I'd asked cybersecurity startup Doppel to make. Fake Me's voice sounded distressed, stilted, and just persuasive enough that he narrowed his eyes, scrunched his nose, and asked: "That's AI, right?" My extremely online brother was far from fooled, but he was unsettled.

by Gene Kim, Steve Yegge " Vibe coding " is the practice of describing a software tool to a generative AI platform, which would then code it. The authors, veterans of leading tech companies including Tripwire, Google, and Amazon, cut through controversy to offer a groundbreaking look at "the good, the bad, and the ugly" of this transformational programming practice and how to unlock its potential.

The launch of ChatGPT by OpenAI in November 2022 marked a turning point in the AI landscape, igniting the broader AI boom. This generative AI tool demonstrated practical applications for everyday users, from content creation to coding assistance, sparking massive public interest and investment. Tech giants poured billions into AI development, while startups flooded the ...

The launch of ChatGPT by OpenAI in November 2022 marked a turning point in the AI landscape, igniting the broader AI boom. This generative AI tool demonstrated practical applications for everyday users, from content creation to coding assistance, sparking massive public interest and investment. Tech giants poured billions into AI development, while startups flooded the market, driven by the promise of transformative technology. Venture capital funding in AI surged, and stock prices for related companies skyrocketed amid hype around machine learning advancements.