ARN’s hush-hush experiment with “Thy”—an AI DJ that quietly ran a four-hour weekday show on CADA for six months—has stirred up trust issues, ethical curves, and questions about what’s voice and what’s vibe these days. Listeners began wondering, “Who is this Thy, anyway?”—no bio, no backstory, nada. Turns out she’s not human: ARN used ElevenLabs’

Warner Bros. Discovery has thrown down the gauntlet in Los Angeles federal court, launching a lawsuit that reads more like a Western showdown—except the guns are pixels and the territory is AI image generators. The target? Midjourney, the AI platform accused of churning out unauthorized visuals of cultural icons like Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Scooby-Doo,

Shares of Oracle shot into the stratosphere—think rocket launch—after the company teased mammoth demand from AI firms hungry for compute power. A 33% pre-market pop wasn’t just any jump; it reflects how Oracle is carving a richer niche in the AI infrastructure race. Turns out, it wasn’t just hype. Oracle’s remaining performance obligations (RPO)—a metric

A copywriter came back from a week-long family leave and got the news that, despite her loyalty and consistent performance, her job had quietly been handed over to AI — simply because it was cheaper. That scenario isn’t ripped from the future; it’s happening now, and it’s uglier than ironic. In a Reddit post that’s

When you pick up an article online, you’d like to believe there’s a real person behind the byline, right? A voice, a point of view, maybe even a cup of coffee fueling the words. But Business Insider is now grappling with an uncomfortable question: how many of its stories were written by actual journalists, and

Microsoft’s planned .NET 10 software development platform has reached the release candidate (RC) stage, with highlights including post-quantum cryptography API completion and ASP.NET Core Identity metrics. Announced September 9 and downloadable from dotnet.microsoft.com, .NET 10 Release Candidate 1 is the first of two planned release candidates. The initial RC follows seven previews, with the first

JFrog has introduced JFrog Fly, an offering the company describes as a zero-config, “agentic repository” for accelerating AI-driven software development. Introduced September 9, JFrog Fly is intended to support agentic workflows for development teams. AI agents orchestrate artifacts across the software life cycle, enabling developers to focus on delivering software to production with speed and

Large language models (LLMs) like GPT and PaLM are transforming how we work and interact, powering everything from programming assistants to universal chatbots. But here’s the catch: running these incredibly powerful models, especially as hosted services, is very expensive, often costing 10x times more than a traditional keyword search. A huge part of this cost

Basic chatbots get much of the publicity associated with modern AI platforms, but they have limited use cases, providing a simple natural language interface to search tools. It’s certainly useful, provided you implement fine-tuning and grounding in your own data, but it is still best thought of as an extension of existing search tools. AI

When working with ASP.NET Core applications, there are several ways in which you can enhance your application’s performance. Caching is one of the most widely used and proven strategies that can significantly boost your application’s scalability and performance. In this post, we’ll examine how we can work with caching in minimal APIs in ASP.NET Core.