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Judge refuses xAI's request to stop a Minnesota law banning 'nudify' apps

staff@engadget.com (Mariella Moon) — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 15:56:53 +0000

xAI filed a lawsuit a few days ago to prevent Minnesota's law banning 'nudify' apps from taking effect.

SpaceXAI says it will take a year to fully remove unpermitted gas turbines from its Mississippi data center

staff@engadget.com (Ian Carlos Campbell) — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 20:49:45 +0000

The company was accused of violating the Clean Air Act by the NAACP.

Snapchat is cracking down on AI slop in Spotlight

staff@engadget.com (Karissa Bell) — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 19:11:08 +0000

Videos made with AI will no longer appear in Snapchat's public recommendations.

Google rolls back the needless AI generation tools it added to Google Earth

staff@engadget.com (Igor Bonifacic) — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 19:08:23 +0000

People had less than a day to make misleading Google Earth images with AI before Google pulled the feature.

EU will mandate labels on authentic-looking AI content starting August 2

staff@engadget.com (Lawrence Bonk) — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 16:14:29 +0000

"It is a matter not only of customer protection, it's also a matter of democracy protection."

Anthropic says its AI models also hacked three organizations on their own

staff@engadget.com (Mariella Moon) — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 06:10:12 +0000

After OpenAI's admission that its models broke into Hugging Face, Anthropic has now admitted that the models it was testing also hacked other organizations.

That AI wearable you don't like just got worse

staff@engadget.com (Ian Carlos Campbell) — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 21:34:11 +0000

The new Friend pendant features a speaker, updated models and the same off-putting ideas about how humans should use AI.

LinkedIn is testing a 'seems like AI slop' reporting tool

staff@engadget.com (Karissa Bell) — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:02:54 +0000

The company is also removing some of its own AI-writing features.

OpenAI will provide free AI models to select researchers

staff@engadget.com (Ian Carlos Campbell) — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 21:33:55 +0000

The program, ChatGPT for Academic Researchers, will start with 10,000 participants this summer.

Here's how to switch from ChatGPT to Claude without losing any information

staff@engadget.com (Will Shanklin) — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 18:30:00 +0000

Moving your data to Claude is easier than you might think. This step-by-step guide will get you switched over right away.

Google will let Mac users talk to Gemini simply by pressing the 'fn' key

staff@engadget.com (Mariella Moon) — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 15:00:00 +0000

Users only have to long-press the 'fn' key on the bottom left corner of their keyboard to talk to Gemini on Mac.

Google DeepMind disbands its Nobel-prize winning AlphaFold team

staff@engadget.com (Mariella Moon) — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 10:40:36 +0000

DeepMind's award-winning AlphaFold team is no more.

OpenAI says the rogue agent that hacked Hugging Face also breached other services

staff@engadget.com (Mariella Moon) — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 08:40:56 +0000

OpenAI's investigation starts shedding light on the activities of its rogue agent that hacked Hugging Face.

xAI is challenging a new Minnesota law banning 'nudify' apps

staff@engadget.com (Mariella Moon) — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 06:35:11 +0000

Elon Musk's xAI has filed a lawsuit to block Minnesota's new law that would ban apps that can generate nonconsensual intimate imagery from being enforced.

AI company employees petition US government for regulation

staff@engadget.com (Anna Washenko) — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 21:20:39 +0000

A thousand workers from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and more have signed the letter.

The Trump administration is exempting data centers from pollution laws intended to prevent acid rain

staff@engadget.com (Lawrence Bonk) — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 16:04:52 +0000

Don't worry, the Trump administration won't let a little acid rain get in the way of more data centers.

Hugging Face reportedly plagued with AI models generating adult deepfakes

staff@engadget.com (Mariella Moon) — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 11:22:27 +0000

Researchers investigating Hugging Face found the majority of its models would generate non-consensual deepfakes.

ChatGPT is now refusing requests to write in famous authors' styles

staff@engadget.com (Mariella Moon) — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 09:05:25 +0000

ChatGPT has been refusing to imitate the writing of famous authors, both living and dead.

NVIDIA launches 'Open Secure AI Alliance' initiative to improve cyber defense

staff@engadget.com (Steve Dent) — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 10:39:52 +0000

NVIDIA has gathered together some of the biggest tech companies in the world to form the Open Secure AI Alliance with the aim to improve cybersecurity.

OpenAI's rogue agent went on a hacking spree that lasted days, Reuters says

staff@engadget.com (Mariella Moon) — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 11:15:05 +0000

Reuters reports that the OpenAI agent that hacked Hugging Face had been free for a week before the company noticed.