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Teens Can Say Goodbye to AI Characters on Meta

Instagram owner says access will be denied to minors until 'the updated experience is ready'

(Newser) - Meta is halting teens' access to artificial intelligence characters, at least temporarily, the company said in an updated blog post on Friday. Meta Platforms Inc., which own Instagram and WhatsApp, said that starting in the "coming weeks," teens will no longer be able to access AI characters, "...

Sweden Boots No. 1 Song From Official Music Charts
Sweden Boots No. 1 Song
From Official Music Charts
in case you missed it
Jan 24, 2026 5:50 AM CST

Sweden Boots No. 1 Song From Official Music Charts

Music body blocks 'Jag Vet, Du Ar Inte Min' because it's generated by artificial intelligence

(Newser) - Sweden's biggest song of the year so far just got kicked off the Nordic nation's charts—mainly because the "singer" isn't human. The BBC reports that "Jag Vet, Du Ar Inte Min" ("I Know, You're Not Mine") by Jacub has racked up...

White House Posts Altered Arrest Photo of Minn. Protester

Manipulated image of civil rights attorney, likely tweaked using AI, erodes public trust, critics say

(Newser) - A White House social media post is drawing scrutiny after it used a digitally altered arrest photo of a Minnesota protester to make it appear she was crying. The original image, shared on X by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, shows civil rights attorney Nekima Levy Armstrong with a neutral...

Sundance Bids Farewell to Park City, Preps for Boulder
In Utah, a Bittersweet
'Culmination' for Sundance
THE RUNDOWN
Jan 22, 2026 11:48 AM CST

In Utah, a Bittersweet 'Culmination' for Sundance

Robert Redford's famous film fest celebrates its last year in Park City, before moving to Boulder

(Newser) - Sundance is getting ready for one last curtain call in the Utah ski town it outgrew years ago. The independent film festival that Robert Redford launched in the 1980s opens Thursday in Park City for the final time before moving to Boulder, Colorado, next year, reports NBC News . The shift...

Salesforce Chief Blasts AI 'Suicide Coaches'

Marc Benioff says unregulated AI is proving to be as harmful as social media

(Newser) - Salesforce chief Marc Benioff is warning that artificial intelligence has crossed a "pretty horrific" line—and that lawmakers are lagging far behind. Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Benioff said some AI systems have effectively turned into "suicide coaches," citing cases in which the technology...

YouTube Outlines Its 2026 Priorities

CEO Neal Mohan shares his annual letter

(Newser) - YouTube has laid out its vision for the coming year, and it involves putting the reins on "AI slop." In his annual letter , CEO Neal Mohan says cutting down on low-grade AI-generated videos and spotting deepfakes will be top priorities for the Google-owned platform in 2026. "It'...

Public Shaming Is Our Best Defense Against Big Tech

Jessica Grose makes her case in the New York Times

(Newser) - Big Tech, Jessica Grose argues, may finally have met a force that can slow it down: being publicly chastised. Writing in the New York Times , the opinion columnist points to Mattel's splashy plan, announced in June, to roll out AI-fueled toys with OpenAI. Outrage ensued, and after months of...

Why AI Struggles to Draw the Humble Clock

As the site 'AI World Clocks' makes very clear

(Newser) - Artificial intelligence can do your taxes and write your emails, but give it a clock and things go sideways, sometimes literally. A site called AI World Clocks puts major AI models to a basic test: "Create HTML/CSS of an analog clock showing ${time}." The results, displayed side by...

Elon Musk's xAI Sued by Mom of One of His Kids

Ashley St. Clair alleges that chatbot allowed sexual alterations to X photos

(Newser) - Ashley St. Clair, the mother of one of Elon Musk's children, is taking his artificial intelligence company xAI to federal court, accusing it of enabling sexualized deepfake images of her and then failing to stop them. In a lawsuit now in the Southern District of New York, St. Clair...

AI Boom Is Real, but OpenAI's Business Could Bust
OpenAI May Be Doomed,
but Not the AI Business
OPINION
Jan 15, 2026 10:02 AM CST

OpenAI May Be Doomed, but Not the AI Business

Company may run out of cash before many users become hooked enough to pay for AI

(Newser) - Wall Street may be fretting about an AI bubble, but one analyst argues the real risk isn't that artificial intelligence fizzles—it's that one of its biggest names runs out of cash first. In a New York Times opinion piece, Sebastian Mallaby contends that AI's commercial potential...

Matthew McConaughey Is Trademarking Himself

Actor nabs trademarks on likeness, voice, famous catchphrase to squash AI fakes

(Newser) - Matthew McConaughey is trying something unusual in the fight against AI fakes: He's trademarking himself. Over recent months, the 56-year-old actor has secured eight trademarks from the US Patent and Trademark Office covering short video and audio clips of his face and voice, including a porch shot, a Christmas...

Pentagon Embraces Musk's Controversial Grok AI Chatbot

Even as it draws global outcry

(Newser) - Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Monday that Elon Musk's artificial intelligence chatbot Grok will join Google's generative AI engine in operating inside the Pentagon network, as part of a broader push to feed as much of the military's data as possible into the developing technology, the AP...

Our Laws on Curbing Child Pornography Are Flawed
Child Pornography Laws
Have a Major Flaw
OPINION
Jan 12, 2026 8:26 AM CST

Child Pornography Laws Have a Major Flaw

Former tech lawyer writes that online companies need to be able to test without getting arrested

(Newser) - Elon Musk's AI chatbot has been allowing users to undress people —sometimes children—to produce deepfake porn images. Amid the ensuing outrage, a former tech lawyer points out what she sees as a major problem in the fight to keep AI-generated sexual images of children from surfacing online....

After Backlash on 'Disgusting' Images, Grok Hits Pause

Users had been deploying chatbot to 'undress' girls and women, creating sexually explicit deepfakes

(Newser) - Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok is preventing most users from generating or editing any images after a global backlash that erupted after it started spewing sexualized deepfakes of people. The chatbot, which is accessed through Musk's social media platform X, has in the past few weeks been granting...

AI Is Coming for Your Gmail
AI Is Coming
for Your Gmail
Jan 9, 2026 6:20 AM CST

AI Is Coming for Your Gmail

New tools bring natural-language inbox search, proofreading, smart summaries

(Newser) - Google is giving Gmail a new AI-powered command center meant to tell you what matters in your inbox before you go looking for it. The company on Thursday detailed a "personalized AI Inbox," natural-language search summaries, and a built-in proofreading assistant, while also making several existing AI tools...

AI Dominates 'Worst in Show' at CES Tech Fair

Judges also disliked a musical lollipop

(Newser) - The promise of artificial intelligence was front and center at this year's CES gadget show. But spicing up a simple machine like a refrigerator with unnecessary AI was also a surefire way to win the "Worst in Show."
  • The annual contest that no tech company wants to
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AI Error Makes NWS Map Invent Towns

Post claimed there was a chance of high winds in 'Orangeotild'

(Newser) - Weather maps usually point you to places you can find on a real map. Over the weekend in Idaho's Camas Prairie, the National Weather Service shared one that highlighted winds over "Orangeotild" and "Whata Bod"—two towns that do not exist. "Hold on to your...

Data Center Backlash Upends Local Politics Nationwide

Residents fear secrecy, soaring utility costs, and loss of rural land

(Newser) - The push to build more data centers to rapidly boost America's AI capacity is meeting opposition in cities across the country. In Sand Springs, Oklahoma, residents packed meetings and built a Christmas parade float casting a proposed data center as a hulking villain looming over a tiny house, the...

Google to Settle Suit Alleging Chatbot Pushed Teen to Suicide

Company, together with maker of Character.AI, will settle cases filed in numerous states

(Newser) - Google and artificial intelligence chatbot maker Character Technologies have agreed to settle a lawsuit from a Florida mother who alleged a chatbot pushed her teenage son to kill himself , per the AP . Attorneys for the two tech companies have also agreed to settle several other lawsuits filed in Colorado, New...

Lego Unveils 'Most Revolutionary Innovation' in 50 Years

New sensor-packed 'Smart Bricks' are sparking debate over imagination vs. interactivity

(Newser) - Lego is rolling out a high-tech twist on its classic bricks, though not everyone is thrilled about it. At CES 2026 in Las Vegas, the Danish company introduced "Smart Bricks," sensor-packed tiny blocks that light up, make sounds, and respond to movement, launching in March with a Star ...

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