npr Tuesday March 24, 2026
Three Tennessee teenagers have filed a class action lawsuit against Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company, xAI, alleging its large language model powered an app that was used to make nonconsensual nude and sexually explicit images and videos of them when they were girls. While the perpetrator didn't use xAI's chatbot, Grok or the social media platform X, the lawsuit claims that the perpetrator relied on an unnamed app that used xAI's algorithm, notes NPR. Read the full Story >>
The New York Times Tuesday March 24, 2026
Meta’s new foundational A.I. model, which the company has been working on for months, has fallen short of the performance of leading A.I. models from rivals like Google, OpenAI and Anthropic on internal tests for reasoning, coding and writing. The model, code-named Avocado, outperformed Meta’s previous A.I. model but it has not performed as strongly as Gemini 3.0, reports The New York Times, citing unnamed Meta sources. As a result, Meta has delayed Avocado’s release to at least May. Read the full Story >>
Laurence King Publishing Tuesday March 24, 2026
A new book, The Women Who Changed Photography: And How to Master Their Techniques, focuses on 50 groundbreaking artists who incorporated unique methods to blaze a trail for future generations. “From Zanele Muholi’s bold black-and-white visages to masters of disguise, like French surrealist Claude Cahun (1894-1954) and contemporary artist Cindy Sherman, identity plays a vital role in many of the practices featured,” notes Colossal. The book comes from Laurence King Publishing. Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Tuesday March 24, 2026
Video has become one of the most powerful forms of evidence in modern journalism, driving the news as legacy media fades and disrupting false narratives spread by government officials. At the exact
same moment, AI is making that evidence easier to fake and easier to manipulate. The result is a new reality, notes journalism site Poynter: Journalists must become visual investigators. The New York … Read the full Story >>
