South African novelist Coral Hart says she wrote 371 novels in 20 months with the help of AI and generated a million dollars in revenue in 2026. She now also offers to produce books to order.
Over the past month, new AI tools have fuelled a string of viral projects that move classic games onto unexpected platforms, from Halo in a web browser to Wind Waker on the iPhone and Super Smash Bros. in mixed reality.
This episode of the 404 Media podcast covers the latest wave of AI slop, a major AI shake-up at Accenture and the bankruptcy of Character.ai, along with how people are stripping surveillance ads from their TVs.
Graylark, a US company that makes AI tools for law enforcement, has built software that can work out a home's address from photos taken inside it. The capability raises obvious privacy questions.
An update to Google's privacy policy adds an exception to its pledge not to use Drive, Gmail or Google Photos content for personalised ads. People who use its personalised AI features could therefore see ads based on their personal data.
OpenAI explains how it scaled Habitat, its storage system for ChatGPT, with reliable multi-tenancy, global caching and Azure Cosmos DB. The company says reads became 12 times faster.