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Builder.ai did not “fake AI with 700 engineers”

The claim that the AI startup “faked AI” with hundreds of engineers went viral – and I also fell for it, initially. The reality is much more sobering: Builder.ai built a code generator on top of Claude and other LLMs; it did not build a so-called “Mechanical Turk.”

The website that created an AI clone of its editor in chief

Every CEO Dan Shipper on doubling headcount while automating everything, building an agent out of 30,000 copyedits, and the “dirty secret” of writing with AI

Inside the Underground Site Where ‘Neural Networks’ Churn Out Fake IDs

The site, called OnlyFake, threatens to streamline everything from bank fraud to money laundering, and has implications for cybersecurity writ large.

Haotian AI : Providing Deepfake AI For Scam Bosses - Frank on Fraud

An advertisement for Haotian AI, a company that provides face-changing software on Telegram, shows they mean business. “We have an R&D team of hundreds of programmers and dozens of servers to serve you.” The braggy advertisement, which just might be directed at Pig Butchering bosses running scam compounds in Southeast Asia, reveals the extent of […]

Building open, private AI with the Mozilla Builders Accelerator | The Mozilla Blog

AI tools are more accessible than ever. Big tech companies have made this possible, but their focus on growth and monetization prioritizes large-scale prod

The AI-Powered Web Is Eating Itself

Without a framework of “Artificial Integrity,” AI search platforms risk collapsing the information commons that made the web possible.

AI and the Collapse of the www

This paper studies market design for generative AI intermediation. AI answer systems can improve user experience while diverting visits that finance publisher content and generate source-level quality signals. I show that an AI platform that underinternalizes future content reproduction retains too little referral traffic and can make costly open-web information subcritical, even with truthful content, accurate answers, and rational users. The mechanism can be self-reinforcing: less source-level measurement weakens conventional search, inducing further AI reliance. Sustainable repair requires replacing displaced revenue and deleted measurement through visitor-replacement royalties, audited provenance, human-information audits, and keystone-topic compensation.

Study Finds A Third of New Websites are AI-Generated

Researchers found the internet is becoming aggressively positive as AI-generated text floods the web.

Meet Foundry: An AI Startup that Builds, Evaluates, and Improves AI Agents

Content Independence Day, one year on- building the business model for the agentic Internet

One year after declaring Content Independence Day, a dynamic market for monetized content has officially emerged. In this report, we examine how the rise of autonomous AI agents is upending traditional search referrals and detail the new infrastructure required to support a sustainable web economy.

Startup Idea Validator 2026 - AI Market Analysis in 120s | IdeaProof

AI startup validator with TAM/SAM/SOM analysis, competitor SWOT, investor-ready plans + AI brand strategy, logo design & marketing creatives. 10 min. Free.

Deepfakes, Scams, and the Age of Paranoia

As AI-driven fraud becomes increasingly common, more people feel the need to verify every interaction they have online.

It Is Trivially Easy to Use Reddit to Manipulate AI Search, Research Suggests

"We show that a tiny snippet—just 13 words—of retrieved text on a UGC website like Reddit, Wikipedia, Quora, or Facebook can change AI agents to output spam / scam content pretty consistently."

AI is eating website traffic, websites are blocking AI – and reliable information is getting harder to find

AI has broken the economic bargain behind the web, and everybody is losing.