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Google announced a major update to Google TV, introducing AI-powered features including Nano Banana for image generation and Veo for video creation. The update also brings YouTube Shorts directly to the home screen, transforming TVs into creative hubs. New Gemini capabilities enhance Google Photos search and editing, starting with TCL TVs in the U.S.
Mercedes Kilmer explained why her family supports an AI-generated version of Val Kilmer appearing in the upcoming film As Deep as the Grave. The late actor, who died at 65 in April 2025 after battling throat cancer, wanted to establish structures for actors to own their licensing and ensure fair compensation before AI laws are written. The decision has sparked intense debate in Hollywood about AI technology threatening actors' livelihoods.
Facebook became overrun with AI-generated deepfake images of Cole Tomas Allen within hours of his identification as the White House Correspondents' Dinner gunman. The fabricated images falsely linked the 31-year-old to over 50 celebrities and numerous sports teams, revealing how AI slop spreads rapidly during major news events and making it harder for users to distinguish reality from fabricated content.
The long-awaited Garry's Mod successor s&box launched on Steam to mixed reviews as AI-generated games flooded its main page. Creator Garry Newman acknowledged the AI slop problem and committed to taking action to promote human creativity, though Facepunch Studios maintains AI can serve as a productivity tool for developers.
Researchers from Stanford University, Imperial College London, and the Internet Archive analyzed 33 months of web data and found that 35% of newly published websites by mid-2025 are AI-generated or AI-assisted. The study confirms the internet is becoming less diverse in ideas and increasingly cheerful in tone, though concerns about factual accuracy weren't validated.
American artist Beeple unveiled an art installation in Berlin featuring robot dogs with hyper-realistic heads of Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos. The dogs roam autonomously and produce AI-generated art that reflects each figure's worldview. The exhibit critiques how tech billionaires and their algorithms now shape human perception more than artists once did.
A news website called The Wire by Acutus, with apparent connections to OpenAI's political operation, has been using AI agents impersonating human journalists to solicit interviews and quotes from real experts. The site published 94 machine-generated articles since late December, with its own automated reviewer flagging 42 as unready for publication—yet all were published anyway.
AI-generated music is overwhelming streaming platforms like Spotify and Deezer, with uploads reaching 44% of daily content on some services. Listener frustration has grown so intense that users are building their own AI blockers, while platforms struggle to implement effective detection systems. The surge raises serious questions about artist royalties and the future of human-made music.
Customers Bank has signed a multiyear deal with OpenAI to embed AI engineers and automate lending, deposits, and payments. CEO Sam Sidhu used an AI clone to deliver earnings call remarks, demonstrating the bank's commitment to becoming an AI-enabled regional bank. The partnership targets efficiency improvements from 49 to the low 40s while reducing loan timelines from weeks to days.
Taylor Swift filed three trademark applications with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to protect her voice and image from AI-generated deepfakes. The filings include two audio clips and one photo, marking a new legal strategy against unauthorized AI use as scam advertisements featuring AI-generated celebrities proliferate across social media platforms.
Archaeologists at Pompeii have used artificial intelligence for the first time to create a digital reconstruction of a victim from the AD 79 Mount Vesuvius eruption. The AI-generated image shows a man fleeing with a terracotta mortar held over his head for protection, carrying an oil lamp and 10 bronze coins. The project, developed by the Pompeii Archaeological Park with the University of Padua, aims to enhance classical studies and make archaeological research more accessible to the public.
Security researchers warn that AI swarms—coordinated networks of large language model agents—can autonomously infiltrate public forums and manufacture synthetic social consensus at scale. These autonomous AI tools now operate across 70 countries, distorting political discourse far more efficiently than traditional bot farms by generating contextually appropriate text that mimics authentic human writing.
A new browser plugin called Sinceerly does the opposite of Grammarly—it intentionally adds typos to AI-generated emails to hide their machine origins. Created by Ben Horwitz using Claude AI, the tool offers three settings from subtle errors to CEO-style casual writing. The satire project highlights a shift in digital communication where flawless writing now signals automation rather than professionalism.
Sam Altman's Tools for Humanity is expanding World ID, a verification service that uses iris scans from basketball-sized orbs to certify personhood online. The OpenAI CEO is positioning it as a solution to AI-generated bots, deepfakes, and impersonation scams. Zoom, Docusign, and Tinder are integrating the technology, though one partnership claim was recently walked back.
The Vatican has implemented one of the world's first state-level AI frameworks, requiring systems to be ethical, transparent and human-centered. Pope Leo XIV told priests not to use AI to write homilies, warning that technology must never replace human beings. The Holy See is establishing itself as a moral counterweight to AI-driven misinformation.
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