AI Houdinis: How a Viral Trampoline Bunny Clip Fooled Millions—and What It Means for Our Digital Trust
That adorable TikTok clip of bunnies hopping onto a trampoline, synced so perfectly with the beat it looked choreographed? Turns out it never happened—it was entirely AI-generated. The viral video…
Wikipedia’s Human Editors Wage War on ‘AI Slop’ as Thousands of Sketchy Entries Pop Up
An unsettling trend is emerging on one of the world’s most trusted information platforms: volunteers are battling a flood of shaky, AI-generated content clogging the encyclopedia’s pages. Dubbed “AI slop,”…
Hume’s EVI 3 Voice AI Sounds Human—Now Even Ricky Gervais Jokes About It
Imagine hearing Ricky Gervais crack a dry joke over a video call—only to realize moments later that it wasn’t Ricky, but a near-perfect digital clone. That’s the reality Hume AI…
AI Startups Aren’t Slowing Down: Rillet Grabs $70M to Reinvent Bookkeeping—Human Accountants, Take Note
San Francisco, CA — What happens when you take one of the most mind-numbing business tasks—accounting—and inject it with high-octane AI automation? You get Rillet, the up-and-coming AI accounting startup…
Epic AI Remix: Hollywood Titans Clash in Mahabharata—Chris Hemsworth as Arjuna, Chris Evans as Krishna
A surreal twist on an ancient saga is setting the internet aflame. An AI-generated trailer has recast the Mahabharata with a Hollywood-style ensemble—Chris Hemsworth strides in as Arjuna, while Chris…
Grok’s ‘Spicy Mode’ Sets Off a Storm: Taylor Swift Deepfake Sparks Ethical Firestorm
When I first read about Grok Imagine’s—or “spicy mode,” as it’s disturbingly called—auto-generating revealing videos of Taylor Swift without any explicit user request, it felt like stepping into a weird…
AI’s Role in Global M&A Surge: $2.6 Trillion Year-to-Date
In an era where the digital transformation is making waves across every sector, the merger and acquisition (M&A) landscape is showing signs of an unprecedented boom. As of August 2025,…
AI Startup Fal Raises $125M in a Flash — Now Worth $1.5B and Gunning for the Cloud Giants
What happens when a lean, developer-obsessed AI startup walks into a room full of big investors with a vision to outpace the cloud titans? Apparently, they walk out with $125…
15 Years of Hell: Ex-Google Exec Mo Gawdat’s AI Warning Is a Stark Wake-Up Call
Mo Gawdat, who once led Google X’s business efforts, delivered a chilling forecast on The Diary of a CEO podcast: AI will usher in a 15-year period of turmoil that may…