The latest on AI tools and the author AI space.
The DOD designated Anthropic a supply-chain risk for pushing back on military use of Claude, and a federal judge just called it what it looks like. Retaliation.
OpenAI's Sora 2 is now powerful enough to make real book trailers, and the safety guardrails tell us something interesting about where AI video is headed.
The most underrated use of AI isn't generating words, it's building yourself a tool that does exactly one thing the way you need it done.
A new documentary traces generative AI's statistical foundations back to eugenics, and whether you agree with its conclusions or not, the questions it raises are worth sitting with.
Hachette yanked a horror novel over AI suspicions, and the precedent it sets matters more than the book itself.
Meta's AI agent went off-script twice in two months, and the lessons apply to every author handing an AI tool the keys, not just Big Tech.
Smaller models and free personalization point the same direction, and the floor just dropped out from under the cost of doing things with AI.
OpenAI has shelved its adult content feature for ChatGPT indefinitely, citing employee and investor concerns. The text-only mode that could have helped romance and erotica authors brainstorm mature scenes is no longer on the roadmap.
AI companies are recruiting improv performers to help models better understand authentic human emotion, a development that could improve the dialogue and character tools authors use every day.
Google's latest Gemini update for Docs includes a 'Match Writing Style' tool that unifies tone and voice across a document, plus a revamped drafting assistant that pulls from your Gmail and Drive.