YouTubers sue Snap for alleged copyright infringement in training its AI models
Evan Spiegel, co-founder and chief executive officer of Snap Inc., during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in Washington,…
The consequences of AI slop and a hopeful look at what will follow it
Published: Jan. 2, 2026 at 12:43 p.m. ET You may already be familiar with the term “AI slop,” with…
Why it may be better if your children don’t have to wait to inherit your money
Published: Dec. 19, 2025 at 11:46 a.m. ET Parents with adult children might be planning to leave behind significant…
Yann LeCun Has Been Right About AI for 40 Years. Now He Thinks Everyone Is Wrong.
As a graduate student in the 1980s, Yann LeCun had trouble finding an adviser for his Ph.D. thesis…
Meta Opens Pop-Up Stores to Build Buzz for Its AI Glasses
NEW YORK—If there is one thing Meta knows how to do, it is getting people to take pictures…
Snap Shares Soar on $400 Million Perplexity AI Deal
Shares in Snap soared 25% in after-hours trading as the social-media company announced a deal to integrate Perplexity’s…
Sam Altman says ‘real people have picked up quirks of LLM-speak’ as AI Twitter and Reddit ‘feel fake’
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has sparked renewed discussion on the authenticity of online content, saying, “I assume it’s…
Chinese social media platforms roll out labels for AI-generated material
Major social media platforms in China have started rolling out labels for AI-generated content to comply with a…