Spokane officials were duped by AI-generated images twice in one week. SIGGRAPH is pushing AI as a 'creative partner.' These two stories are not contradictory — they reveal the real state of AI image tools in mid-2026, where creation has outraced verification by a wide margin.
Federated learning allows AI models to be trained on distributed data without centralizing sensitive information. From healthcare to finance, here's how the technology is enabling AI in domains where privacy is non-negotiable.
Training frontier AI models consumes enormous amounts of energy. But how much, exactly? And how does it compare to other human activities? Here's what the data actually shows about AI's environmental impact and what the industry is doing about it.
Content moderation at internet scale is an impossible human task. AI tools are making it possible — but at what cost to free expression? Here's how platforms are using AI to detect harmful content, the accuracy limitations, and the ongoing debate about automated censorship.
The challenge of detecting AI-generated text has become one of the most consequential problems in AI. From academic integrity to misinformation detection, here's how watermarking and detection techniques are evolving — and why the problem may be fundamentally unsolvable.