A video showed unicyclists riding while shoveling snow. A journalist set out to decide if it was AI or real life

Were there really unicyclists clearing snow in Somerville, Mass., or was it AI sorcery? An intrepid Boston Globe reporter found out.
CNET

Ready to Ditch TikTok? Check Out These 9 Apps for Short-Form Video Alternatives

Apps like Upscrolled, Skylight and Loops are gaining attention as users become disenchanted with the new US version of TikTok.

AMD just got accused of using AI-generated code that's full of "AI slop"

After submitting a new patch for open source video and audio encoding tool, FFmpeg, a user noted the code looked like unchecked AI.
WinBuzzer

From Clawd, Moltbot to OpenClaw: Viral Self-Hosted AI Agent Rebrands the Third Time

Peter Steinberger's self-hosted AI tool has rebranded to OpenClaw after trademark conflicts forced changes from Clawd to ...
MIT Technology Review

The Download: US immigration agencies’ AI videos, and inside the Vitalism movement

The news: The US Department of Homeland Security is using AI video generators from Google and Adobe to make and edit content shared with the public, a new document reveals. The document, released on ...

How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are

Agents use facial recognition, social media monitoring and other tech tools not only to identify undocumented immigrants but ...
CNET

I Love NotebookLM, but This Open-Source Version Could Tempt Me to Switch

Blake has over a decade of experience writing for the web, with a focus on mobile phones, where he covered the smartphone boom of the 2010s and the broader tech scene. When he's not in front of a ...
GeekWire

Allen Institute for AI rivals Google, Meta and OpenAI with open-source AI vision model

A demo video from Ai2 shows Molmo tracking a specific ball in this cat video, even when it goes out of frame. (Allen Institute for AI Video) How many penguins are in this wildlife video? Can you track ...
VentureBeat

Ai2’s Molmo 2 shows open-source models can rival proprietary giants in video understanding

Fresh off releasing the latest version of its Olmo foundation model, the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) launched its open-source video model, Molmo 2, on Tuesday, aiming to show that smaller, open ...
Reuters

Nvidia unveils new open-source AI models amid boom in Chinese offerings

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Nvidia (NVDA.O), opens new tab on Monday unveiled a new family of open-source artificial intelligence models that it says will be faster, cheaper and smarter than its ...
Techno-Science.net

9 Best Open-Source Apps from GitHub You Can Actually Use Every Day

GitHub hosts powerful open source apps you can use daily, from Immich for photo backups and Upscayl for image upscaling to VERT for file conversion, BC Uninstaller for cleanup, Mole for Mac storage, ...
The Verge

Microsoft makes Zork open-source.

The original Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III games are now available under the MIT license. Microsoft, Xbox, and Activision have teamed up to preserve the clever Z-Machine engine that powered the Zork ...