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Toll road text scams are in overdrive: Here’s what to look out for
Have you received a text message about an unpaid road toll? Make sure you’re not the next victim of a smishing scam. 06 May 2025 • , 4 min. read Driving is a way of life in the US. The country’s sprawling suburbs and nationwide network of highways and toll roads is testament to this….

Ming-Lite-Uni: An Open-Source AI Framework Designed to Unify Text and Vision through an Autoregressive Multimodal Structure
Multimodal AI rapidly evolves to create systems that can understand, generate, and respond using multiple data types within a single conversation or task, such as text, images, and even video or audio. These systems are expected to function across diverse interaction formats, enabling more seamless human-AI communication. With users increasingly engaging AI for tasks like…

Google On Diluting SEO Impact Through Anchor Text Overuse
Google’s John Mueller answered a question about internal site navigation where an SEO was concerned about diluting the ability to rank for a keyword phrase by using the same anchor text in four sitewide sections across an entire website. Link In Four Navigational Areas The person asking the question had a client that had four…

OpenAI’s new voice AI model gpt-4o-transcribe lets you add speech to your existing text apps in seconds
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More OpenAI’s voice AI models have gotten it into trouble before with actor Scarlett Johansson, but that isn’t stopping the company from continuing to advance its offerings in this category. Today, the ChatGPT maker has unveiled three,…

Why Icon-Only Design Is Failing Users: The Case for Text Labels | Web Designer Depot
In recent years, the minimalist trend has taken over the design world. Sleek, clean layouts have become synonymous with good design, and the simplest solutions are often the most highly praised. Within this trend, icons have become an essential visual shorthand, replacing text in the name of simplicity and brevity. However, this obsession with icons…
Watermarking AI-generated text and video with SynthID
Technologies Published 14 May 2024 Announcing our novel watermarking method for AI-generated text and video, and how we’re bringing SynthID to key Google products Generative AI tools — and the large language model technologies behind them — have captured the public imagination. From helping with work tasks to enhancing creativity, these tools are quickly becoming…
Positioning Text Around Elements With CSS Offset | CSS-Tricks
When it comes to positioning elements on a page, including text, there are many ways to go about it in CSS — the literal position property with corresponding inset-* properties, translate, margin, anchor() (limited browser support at the moment), and so forth. The offset property is another one that belongs in that list. The offset…

Ghostbuster: Detecting Text Ghostwritten by Large Language Models
The structure of Ghostbuster, our new state-of-the-art method for detecting AI-generated text. Large language models like ChatGPT write impressively well—so well, in fact, that they’ve become a problem. Students have begun using these models to ghostwrite assignments, leading some schools to ban ChatGPT. In addition, these models are also prone to producing text with factual…

This AI Paper from Tel Aviv University Introduces GASLITE: A Gradient-Based Method to Expose Vulnerabilities in Dense Embedding-Based Text Retrieval Systems
Dense embedding-based text retrieval has become the cornerstone for ranking text passages in response to queries. The systems use deep learning models for embedding text into vector spaces that enable semantic similarity measurements. This method has been adopted widely in applications such as search engines and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), where retrieving accurate and contextually relevant…