Author: Advanced AI Editor

Google has insisted that its AI-generated search result overviews and summaries have not actually hurt traffic for publishers. The publishers disagree, and at least one is willing to go to court to prove the harm they claim Google has caused. Penske Media Corporation, the parent company of Rolling Stone and The Hollywood Reporter, sued Google on Friday over allegations that the search giant has used its work without permission to generate summaries and ultimately reduced traffic to its publications. Penske’s argument is pretty simple: by showing an AI-generated summary of an article at the top of the page via Google’s…

Seattle’s city government is charting a bold course into the artificial intelligence era, unveiling a comprehensive plan that promises to reshape municipal operations while emphasizing ethical guardrails. Mayor Bruce Harrell’s administration announced the 2025-2026 AI Plan on September 11, positioning the city as a frontrunner in leveraging AI for public good. The initiative, detailed in a 26-page document, outlines strategies to integrate AI into services like permitting, public safety, and customer support, all while prioritizing transparency and accountability. At the heart of the plan is a commitment to workforce development, with mandatory training programs for city employees to harness tools…

Claude introduced memory this week, but only for certain paid users of the AI model.Days after Anthropic announced that Claude can make spreadsheets and decks, it introduced a memory feature for those on Team and Enterprise plans. The AI model now “remembers you and your team’s projects and preferences,” Anthropic stated in a blog post released on Thursday. SEE ALSO: Anthropic launches Claude Chrome extension: How to try it Claude’s memory functionality isn’t available for free users or those paying for its individual Pro or Max plans. Anthropic, however, also announced the release of incognito chats (the same idea as…

At the center of every empire is an ideology, a belief system that propels the system forward and justifies expansion – even if the cost of that expansion directly defies the ideology’s stated mission. For European colonial powers, it was Christianity and the promise of saving souls while extracting resources. For today’s AI empire, it’s artificial general intelligence to “benefit all humanity.” And OpenAI is its chief evangelist, spreading zeal across the industry in a way that has reframed how AI is built.  “I was interviewing people whose voices were shaking from the fervor of their beliefs in AGI,” Karen…

In late June, Verizon launched the Project 624 initiative, which entailed improving customer service. AI is central to the program, but many customers believe they are being sold short. Under Project 624, Verizon aims to solve customers’ problems quickly and provide round-the-clock support. Verizon said that while AI was a part of the mix, tricky queries that require human cognition would be handled by human representatives. Verizon doesn’t seem to be sticking to that resolve, with many subscribers complaining they have mostly had to deal with AI, and the experience has been disappointing.it’s trash and the level one support people…

Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, dismissed claims that today’s AI systems are PhD intelligences, calling the label nonsense and arguing that current models lack the consistency and reasoning needed for true general intelligence.  “They’re not PhD intelligences,” Hassabis said in a recent All-in-podcast interview. “They have some capabilities that are PhD level, but they’re not in general capable, and that’s exactly what general intelligence should be—performing across the board at the PhD level.” Hassabis’ statements come after OpenAI dubbed its latest AI model, GPT-5, as PhD-level. Hassabis explained that while advanced language models can demonstrate impressive skills, they can…

Even though Google’s AI Overviews were introduced with a comically rocky start, it’s about to face a far more serious challenge. Penske Media, the publisher for Rolling Stone, Variety, Billboard and others, filed a lawsuit against Google, claiming the tech giant illegally powers its AI Overviews feature with content from its sites. Penske claimed in the lawsuit that the AI feature is also “siphoning and discouraging user traffic to PMC’s and other publishers’ websites,” adding that “the revenue generated by those visits will decline.”The lawsuit, filed in Washington, DC’s federal district court, claims that about 20 percent of Google searches…

How much do foundation models matter? It might seem like a silly question, but it’s come up a lot in my conversations with AI startups, which are increasingly comfortable with businesses that used to be dismissed as “GPT wrappers,” or companies that build interfaces on top of existing AI models like ChatGPT. These days, startup teams are focused on customizing AI models for specific tasks and interface work, and see the foundation model as a commodity that can be swapped in and out as necessary. That approach was on display especially at last week’s Boxworks conference, which seemed devoted entirely…

Google has been sued again. Penske Media, the owner of major publications like Rolling Stone, Billboard, and Variety, has legally challenged the tech giant, accusing it of using its journalistic content without permission to create AI-generated summaries that are moving traffic away from its websites. The lawsuit, filed in a Washington, D.C. federal court, marks the first time a prominent US publisher has taken legal action against Google over its “AI Overviews” feature.According to a news report by news agency Reuters, news organisations have argued that these new AI summaries, which appear at the top of search results, are decreasing…

TikTok-owner ByteDance has launched SeedDream 4.0, its newest artificial intelligence tool for image generation and editing. The company claims the tool surpasses Google DeepMind’s Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, popularly known as Nano Banana, in key areas like prompt accuracy, image alignment, and aesthetics. ByteDance launches SeedDream 4.0, a rival to Google’s Nano Banana AI. Here is everything you need to know.(REUTERS) According to a South China Morning Post report, the Seed division at ByteDance, which oversees the company’s AI development, said the new model combines the text-to-image capabilities of SeedDream 3.0 with the image editing skills of SeedEdit 3.0. According…