The Rise and Fall of Clubhouse: From Idea to Launch

Discover the rapid rise and sudden fall of Clubhouse, the audio app that took the pandemic by storm. Explore its journey from ...

Real-life Toy Story? This start-up wants to bring your favorite characters to life

An AI-driven app is turning toys into animated videos. Erin Keller learns how the ‘kidults’ are getting hooked on NaukNauk ...
Miami Community Newspapers

Sculpting the American Story: The Underline announces short list of artists for Plinth project

Friends of The Underline has announced the shortlisted artists for the first Underline Plinth project: Sculpting the American Story. The inaugural installation of a new biennial public art initiative ...
The Guardian

Short story accused of being AI-written wins overall Commonwealth prize

Jamir Nazir’s The Serpent in the Grove, which critics allege has ‘obvious markers’ of AI use, was described as ‘original, poetic and deeply moving’ by the judging chair A story widely accused on ...
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Short novels with big feels: 12 books you'll finish and never forget

There is something quietly defiant about a short novel. It refuses to waste your time. It walks in, sits down, and within a hundred or two hundred pages, does something to you that a thousand-page ...
The New Yorker

Did a Chatbot Write a Prize-Winning Story? Does It Matter?

In early May, the Commonwealth Foundation announced the five regional winners for its influential Short Story Prize, which recognizes unpublished short fiction. One of the awardees, a Trinidadian ...
Ars Technica

Anthropic says these topics are too dangerous to let its Fable 5 model talk about

Anthropic Tuesday publicly released Claude Fable 5, its first “Mythos-class” model that it says surpasses its previous frontier Opus models in overall capabilities. But the model’s launch today comes ...
Pew Research Center

Americans say keeping up with key news topics is crucial. But fewer say they’re highly informed themselves

Americans overwhelmingly say it’s extremely or very important for people to stay informed about a range of news topics, including the healthcare system (82%), voting and election processes (82%), and ...
The Atlantic

Why Reading Is Now Restless

Although I teach and edit fiction, I still didn’t think it would ever happen—that an AI-generated or AI-assisted short story would win a major contest. Then came Jamir Nazir’s “The Serpent in the ...
Reuters

Short on growth ideas, Putin hosts fifth wartime 'Russian Davos'

Drone attacks, sanctions hamper Russian economic recovery Business leaders, economists sceptical over proposed growth measures Ukraine peace deal, sanctions relief could revive growth ST. PETERSBURG, ...
The Conversation

What do the Commonwealth Writers Prize AI allegations mean for prizes – and short stories?

Another day, another literary scandal involving AI. It has been alleged that the judges of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize have been duped by an author using AI in his winning entry. Jamir Nazir’s ...
The New York Times

Was a Story That Just Won a Literary Prize A.I.-Generated?

A respected literary magazine has published an award-winning short story many readers believe to be generated by artificial intelligence. Experts aren’t all so sure. By Valeriya Safronova Concerns ...