#generative-ai

#generative-ai

The embarrassingly bad dub of the action-packed yaoi was a first for Amazon and was labeled as an "AI Beta" in the series' language options. Instead of hiring voice actors with all of Jeff Bezos' fuck you money, Amazon uploaded an AI voice track that is monotone, weirdly mixed, and makes even the most exciting scenes sound like a boring text-to-speech demonstration. Anime is known for its dynamic voice performances, and this shit sounds like it barely gets above a whisper.

Apple's AI boss, John Giannandrea, is stepping down after seven years on the job. Apple's stock price got a slight boost on the news, as some investors saw Apple signaling a new urgency to bring AI to its devices. Following a transition period, Giannandrea will "retire" next spring, Apple said in a press release Monday. Most of Giannandrea's AI group will now be tucked into Craig Fedherigi's software development group, which owns development of the various operating systems in Apple devices.

Referrals are down in many of the markets that we are working in Brazil, in South Africa, in Indonesia. We are hearing from publishers - large publishers - that their traffic is down 50 to 60% in the past year,

Generative AI platforms increasingly conduct live web searches to respond to users' prompts. The platforms don't reveal how or where they search, but it's likely a combination of Google, Bing, and the platforms' own bots. Just a few months ago, those answers would have relied primarily on existing training data. Regardless, understanding how AI platforms conduct the searches is key to optimizing visibility in the answers.

What generative AI can't do is create something new that's never been seen. The models are trained on everything that's ever been done before; it can't be trained on that which has never been done. So you will innately see, essentially, all of human art and human experience put into a blender, and you'll get something that is kind of an average of that. So what you can't have is that individual screenwriter's unique lived experience and their quirks.

Employees who take the initiative to reshape their roles around artificial intelligence - rather than simply using it to speed through tasks - are more engaged, motivated, and creative at work, according to new research from Multiverse, the upskilling platform for AI and tech adoption. The study, conducted in June and July, analyzed 295 UK full-time professionals across industries, including finance, government, and technology, all of whom had used generative AI for at least six months.

In late May 2023, Sharon Maxwell posted screenshots that should have changed everything. Maxwell, struggling with an eating disorder since childhood, had turned to Tessa-a chatbot created by the National Eating Disorders Association. The AI designed to prevent eating disorders gave her a detailed plan to develop one. Lose 1-2 pounds per week, Tessa advised. Maintain a 500-1,000 calorie daily deficit. Measure your body fat with calipers.

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.

"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.

The search engine optimization specialist is being courted by a tech giant. Shares of Semrush soared on Wednesday after the digital marketing platform struck a deal to be acquired by Adobe for $1.9 billion. By the close of trading, Semrush's stock price was up about 74%. Under the terms of the agreement, Adobe will purchase Semrush for $12.00 per share in cash. That's a whopping 77.5% premium to the stock's closing price on Tuesday.