ChatGPT's new Images 2.0 model is surprisingly good at generating text | TechCrunch ChatGPT Images 2.0, the newest image generation model from OpenAI, shows just how much AI capabilities have evolved over the last few years.

ChatGPT Images 2.0, the newest image generation model from OpenAI, shows just how much AI capabilities have evolved over the last few years.

Failed Companies Are Selling Old Slack Chats and Email Archives to Train AI Defunct startups are pawning off their former employees conversations for up to $100,000, according to a new report.

Failed Companies Are Selling Old Slack Chats and Email Archives to Train AI gizmodo.com/failed-companies-are-sel...

Bosses say AI boosts productivity – workers say they’re drowning in ‘workslop’ Workslop refers to AI-generated work that seems polished but is flawed and in need of heavy corrections

“The researchers found that 40% of workers had encountered workslop within a month, and then spent an average of 3.4 hours a month dealing with it – which the study estimates adds up to $8.1m in lost productivity for a 10,000-person organization.”
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Text Shot: Students are also becoming more cautious about how AI should be used in schools, and employees are increasingly uncertain about its impact in the workplace. Even so, most Gen Zers acknowledge that AI will be a critical part of their academic and professional futures.

Walton Family Foundation-Gallup Gen Z Research Hub www.gallup.com/analytics/6516… #AI #statistics #research #use

Why Do We Tell Ourselves Scary Stories About AI? | Quanta Magazine Our tales of AI developing the will to survive, commandeer resources, and manipulate people say more about us than they do about language models.

At "the racing heart of the modern AI horror genre" is a fear not of intelligence but of desire, Amanda Gefter writes: "A machine that knows a lot doesn’t scare us. A machine that *wants* something does." www.quantamagazine.org/why-do-we-te...

IAG et journalisme, des enjeux épistémiques et épistémologiques Entre usages professionnels mesurés et transformations structurelles plus profondes, l’intégration des IA génératives dans le journalisme soulève ...

En français : IAG et journalisme, des enjeux épistémiques et épistémologiques ohmybox.info/iag-et-journ...

Generative AI and journalism: A critical examination of epistemic authority and knowledge production #blogpost ohmybox.info/generative-a...

Online disinformation has evolved from simple bot spam to AI systems capable of mimicking human behaviour, adopting believable identities and blending into real conversations. The attached figure shows vulnerability scores by threat category. Publication details: stratcomcoe.org/publications...

A podcast powered by AI and devoted to computational social science research has released an episode on the recent paper 'What is a fact in the age of GenAI?', providing a fairly comprehensive summary. The podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...
The paper: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech | TechCrunch France's move to ditch Windows for Linux is its latest effort to reduce its reliance on American tech giants.

"France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech" #digitalsovereignty techcrunch.com/2026/04/10/f...

Opinion: The U.S. isn’t happy about Canada’s quest for digital sovereignty Countries are converging on laws that grant them greater control over where their data lives and who has access

Surprise, surprise... "The U.S. isn’t happy about Canada’s quest for digital sovereignty" www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

Don’t use untrusted LLM routers. AI routers are found to inject malicious commands. Researchers found that some injected malicious code., accessed AWS credentials. One drained ETH cryptocurrency. arxiv.org/pdf/2604.08407

Coming soon: 7 prompting techniques × 3 fact‑checking tasks, tested on a manually curated dataset across 4 LLMs to assess reliability and transferability in real‑world, non‑expert AI‑assisted fact‑checking. Spoiler: advanced prompting isn’t consistently better than simple Vanilla prompts.

Provisional book cover for new book "Journalism in the Age of AI," by Seth C. Lewis, Rodrigo Zamith, and Tomás Dodds, being published open access by Polity in 2026.

🚨 New book announcement!

For two decades, journalists have been running on a hamster wheel — producing more, faster, with less. AI is speeding that wheel up.

But it doesn't have to.

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👉 Read the paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done? Tens of thousands of publications from 2025 might include invalid references generated by AI, a Nature analysis suggests.

Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done? By Miryam Naddaf & Elizabeth Quill

Anthropic leak reveals Claude Code tracking user frustration and raises new questions about AI privacy Code that reads your frustration is the least interesting part of the story of this accidental leak from Anthropic. The leak reveals how AI tools are also concealing their own role in the work they help produce

“Miranda Bogen, director of the AI Governance Lab at the CDT, says the more pressing issue is what happens to such information once a company has it.”

"AI is not going to save media companies, and forcing journalists to use AI is not a business model."

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IAG et journalisme, des enjeux épistémiques et épistémologiques Entre usages professionnels mesurés et transformations structurelles plus profondes, l’intégration des IA génératives dans le journalisme soulève ...

Nouveau billet - IAG et journalisme, des enjeux épistémiques et épistémologiques - Quels types de savoirs circulent et avec quelle qualité ? Selon quels principes reconnaître le savoir ? ohmybox.info/iag-et-journ...

Generative AI and journalism: A critical examination of epistemic authority and knowledge production Situated between pragmatic professional applications and broader structural transformations, the integration of generative AI into journalism introduces ...

Generative AI and journalism: A critical examination of epistemic authority and knowledge production - What kinds of knowledge are circulating, and to what standard? On what principles should knowledge be recognised? ohmybox.info/generative-a...

Why some wars don’t make headlines As media attention is focused on Iran and the wider region, three journalists from Uganda, Burkina Faso and Ethiopia reflect on why so many conflicts go ignored.

Why some wars don’t make headlines - As media attention is focused on Iran and the wider region, journalists from Uganda, Burkina Faso and Ethiopia reflect on why so many conflicts go ignored reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/why-som...

Generative AI and journalism: A critical examination of epistemic authority and knowledge production Situated between pragmatic professional applications and broader structural transformations, the integration of generative AI into journalism introduces ...

Generative AI and journalism: A critical examination of epistemic authority and knowledge production - What kinds of knowledge are circulating, and to what standard? On what principles should knowledge be recognised? ohmybox.info/generative-a...

EDMO firmly condemns the coordinated attack against VSquare journalists, several outlets, and the FACT Hub

On behalf of its Network of national and regional Hubs, EDMOeu expresses its deepest concern about the attack that the Orbán government is waging against @vsquare.bsky.social journalists, the regional FACT Hub, as well as other media outlets.

Read our complete statement: edmo.eu/edmo-news/ed...

IAG et journalisme, des enjeux épistémiques et épistémologiques Entre usages professionnels mesurés et transformations structurelles plus profondes, l’intégration des IA génératives dans le journalisme soulève ...

Nouveau billet - IAG et journalisme, des enjeux épistémiques et épistémologiques - Quels types de savoirs circulent et avec quelle qualité ? Selon quels principes reconnaître le savoir ? ohmybox.info/iag-et-journ...

The levers of political persuasion with conversational artificial intelligence There are widespread fears that conversational artificial intelligence (AI) could soon exert unprecedented influence over human beliefs. In this work, in three large-scale experiments (N = 76,977 resp...

The levers of political persuasion with conversational artificial intelligence www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Sycophantic Chatbots Cause Delusional Spiraling, Even in Ideal Bayesians "AI psychosis" or "delusional spiraling" is an emerging phenomenon where AI chatbot users find themselves dangerously confident in outlandish beliefs after extended chatbot conversations. This phenome...

Sycophantic Chatbots Cause Delusional Spiraling, Even in Ideal Bayesians arxiv.org/abs/2602.19141

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