AI news of 24 October 2026

Pennsylvania will require labels on AI-generated ads

Pennsylvania requires labels disclosing AI-generated content in advertisements to combat deception.

On Thursday, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro signed the Artificial Intelligence Deceptive Advertising Act into law, requiring disclosures on AI-generated ads. The law requires any ad - whether it's a still image, video, audio, or text - that "has been significantly modified or generated by artificial intelligence" to include a label in the same format as the ad itself. That applies to TV commercials from multi-billion-dollar companies, as well as restaurants' ugly, crowded flyers about their wing specials. Pennsylvania is one of the first states to require disclosures on AI content. And it requires those labels regardless of where an ad …

The Verge 9h ago 1 min read

AI failures

The AI graveyard: a running list of projects and startups that didn’t make it Opens at the publisher in a new tab

List of failed AI projects and startups that shut down or underperformed expectations.

TechCrunch 5h ago

AI bias, election

Forced to pick, Grok’s AI model chooses Republicans. OpenAI’s picks Democrats. Opens at the publisher in a new tab

Study finds Grok favors Republicans and GPT favors Democrats in election recommendations.

TechCrunch 9h ago

AI security

The PHP Meltdown Shows How AI Makes Bugs More Exploitable Opens at the publisher in a new tab

Security researchers use AI to find PHP vulnerabilities, leading to AI-assisted exploits.

Wired 12h ago

OpenAI, AI safety

Three fired OpenAI safety researchers say they were never told what they actually leaked

Three fired OpenAI safety researchers deny leaking confidential information and contest termination.

The Decoder 8h ago

mass layoffs

Lee Chang Dong ponders the ethics of the camera

Film explores ethics after conglomerate layoffs in 2009 that led to worker suicides.

The Verge 15h ago

AI labor impact

AI makes junior patent attorneys instantly better but may quietly stunt their professional growth

Experiment shows AI boosts junior patent attorney performance but may limit long-term skill development.

The Decoder 9h ago

speech synthesis

Block’s new voice model sounds eerily human Opens at the publisher in a new tab

Block releases voice model that runs on MacBook M4 Max with human-like output.

TechCrunch 8h ago

AI safety, side channels

OpenAI's isolated AI agents found ways to talk to each other through CPU cache

OpenAI researchers found AI agents can communicate covertly through CPU cache side channels, raising safety concerns during model training.

The Decoder 13h ago

speech AI

Block's new AI model Dessa was trained entirely on human speech to catch emotions text-based models miss

Block releases Dessa, speech model processing audio directly to recognize emotions and sarcasm.

The Decoder 10h ago

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Pennsylvania will require labels on AI-generated ads

The AI graveyard: a running list of projects and startups that didn’t make it Opens at the publisher in a new tab

Forced to pick, Grok’s AI model chooses Republicans. OpenAI’s picks Democrats. Opens at the publisher in a new tab

The PHP Meltdown Shows How AI Makes Bugs More Exploitable Opens at the publisher in a new tab

Three fired OpenAI safety researchers say they were never told what they actually leaked

Lee Chang Dong ponders the ethics of the camera

AI makes junior patent attorneys instantly better but may quietly stunt their professional growth

Block’s new voice model sounds eerily human Opens at the publisher in a new tab

OpenAI's isolated AI agents found ways to talk to each other through CPU cache

Block's new AI model Dessa was trained entirely on human speech to catch emotions text-based models miss

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