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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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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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xAI sues a man for misusing Grok

xAI is being sued around the world for some of the images and videos Grok generates. But now it’s taking one of its users to court, arguing the chatbot was manipulated.


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Anthropic’s top models are back

The US government has lifted its export controls on Anthropic's Fable 5—right as competition with Chinese AI heats up. Anthropic’s model returns globally starting today.


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OpenAI’s government chaperone

The company is staggering the release of GPT-5.6 to satisfy the government’s desire to review it—one of several recent moves to tighten federal control over new AI models.

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