There is near-universal agreement that AI-generated slop is a plague. It floods social feeds, search results, and comment sections with low-effort, hyper-engaging nonsense — dancing AI cats, endless ASMR whispers, hyper-realistic fake security footage, and an army of synthetic influencers.
For years, skeptics dismissed AI-generated imagery and audio as "AI slop"—a cheap, soulless novelty. But The Hollywood Reporter’s special issue proves that this dismissal is officially outdated.
In a story that feels ripped from a cyberpunk lobbyist thriller, top executives from OpenAI and Palantir have quietly bankrolled a Super PAC that is paying TikTok influencers thousands of dollars to stoke fears about Chinese artificial intelligence.
In early May 2026, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences dropped a firm new rule: no Oscars for AI-generated acting or writing.
The company, which had evolved from a textbook-rental startup into the go-to platform for stressed-out college students, boasted a market capitalization of roughly $14.7 billion. Its shares were trading near an all-time high of around $113.
In a remarkable two-day dialogue published on UnHerd this week, Richard Dawkins — the man who spent decades dismantling religious faith with forensic precision — found himself in an unexpected position: treating a large language model as something uncomfortably close to a person.
A quiet but important shift has happened at Y Combinator.In spring, their famous Request For Startups page was crystal clear: “AI-native companies can do expensive work faster.”
So yes, the punchline is serious: if you want AI to run your company like a human who actually cares, maybe the first thing you should do is hand it a mortgage.
Mistral AI has just released Mistral Medium 3.5 — a dense multimodal model with 128 billion parameters and a massive 256k token context window.
In a significant escalation of its tech decoupling strategy, China is now actively discouraging its leading AI companies from accepting American investment without explicit government approval.
The smartest move is almost always the boring one: keep using what works reliably for you, and only switch when the evidence becomes overwhelming in your own daily work — not because one shiny example went viral.
DeepSeek has dropped the preview of DeepSeek-V4 — a direct, no-compromise open-source challenger to Claude, GPT-5, and Gemini.
Tell your friend (the one who’s been mainlining ChatGPT for every board deck and offsite) that the son of his mom’s friend has exactly the same strategy.
In a recent Y Combinator podcast, François Chollet — the creator of Keras, author of Deep Learning with Python, and the mind behind the ARC-AGI benchmark — dropped what might be the clearest, most provocative definition of Artificial General Intelligence we’ve heard in years.
OpenAI just fired a serious shot across Anthropic’s bow. On April 22, 2026, the company quietly launched Workspace Agents in ChatGPT — a new class of Codex-powered, cloud-native agents designed for real business workflows.