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Now available to rent: Your face

AI-generated content is creating a new marketplace of officially licensed, real human faces—where anyone can browse and rent your likeness for use in commercials, video games, microdramas, and more.


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An open and not-so-shut debate

Silicon Valley is taking sides on whether there should be more restrictions on open-weight AI models—and the lobbying effort in Washington is heating up.


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The always-on-the-record era

Silicon Valley is using AI products to record every work meeting and social interaction—a habit that’s thorny both legally and socially.


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A tale of two AIs and an unexpected hack

OpenAI’s models recently hacked an AI platform all on their own. But the AI that came to the rescue wasn’t a top American one—it was an open-source Chinese model.


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An ice-cold bet on a chip that runs only one AI model

Google’s rumored “Frozen” chip fuses Gemini directly into the silicon in a bid to make AI more efficient. But it’s a big wager on committing to a single model.


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AI has a big workplace bias problem

Many companies now use some form of AI to help weed through job candidates—but new research shows that AI can be more biased than humans when it comes to applicants, even coming up with novel stereotypes.


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Maybe you don’t need the brand name AI

With cheaper open-weight AI models arriving on the market, consumers have more choice—and frontier labs like OpenAI and Anthropic may feel pressure to lower prices.

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