Giving ‘Secret Identities’ to Copyrighted Animation Characters

New research from China offers a non-invasive way to protect copyrighted animation characters, by 'injecting' generic substitutes at inference time. But can this method defeat the ingenuity [...]

A judge just told Google to stop making rival app stores hard to install

The hearing ran on 13 August in a San Francisco courtroom, The Verge reported first. It was a compliance check, not a new case. A jury decided unanimously nearly three years ago that Google held an il [...]

OpenAI and Anthropic in price war as Chinese AI rivals gain ground

US groups release cheaper models after new challenges to their trillion-dollar ambitions. [...]

ChatGPT's new Computer History tracks your Mac activity to create a timeline - but should you let it?

Rolling out to ChatGPT's Mac app, Computer History creates a timeline from your activities across the apps and websites you use on your Mac. Is that a privacy risk? [...]

ASU’s content creation degree grades your follower count

The programme sits inside the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. The first cohort enrols this autumn. The Associated Press reported the launch and the backlash on 14 August. [...]

Alibaba's Qwen team releases Qwen 3.8 models with open weights under the Apache 2.0 license

Alibaba's AI team Qwen has released new open model weights under the Apache 2.0 license with Qwen 3.8. The dense 27-billion-parameter model is designed to outperform the larger Qwen 3.7 Plus in c [...]

Gambit Security’s “AI Across the Intrusion Lifecycle” Shows How AI Is Moving Deeper Into Real-World Cyberattacks

Gambit Security’s new report, AI Across the Intrusion Lifecycle offers a detailed look at how artificial intelligence is moving beyond a supporting role in cybercrime and becoming integrated into th [...]

Jif is giving its peanut butter a new look for the first time in more than 30 years

The J.M. Smucker brand is updating its tri-color logo and adding snack ideas to packaging as it looks to expand beyond PB&J [...]

Pipeline for $165 Billion Oracle Data Center Delayed to Next Year

The Green Chile pipeline that would fuel Oracle’s Project Jupiter data centre in New Mexico has been pushed from 15 August to 1 February 2027, according to a filing by Energy Transfer’s Transweste [...]