ByteDance's Seed team shipped Seedance 2.5 on July 31, generating 30 seconds of video with synchronized audio in a single pass, double the length of Seedance 2.0 and triple that of Google's current mo…
Truffle Security's scan of 7.6 petabytes of public Hugging Face data found 221,303 live, unique credentials across 6,003 datasets, including 8,557 Google service-account keys, 8,594 database logins, 3…
Brendan Gregg, a performance engineer at Netflix, reports that multiple AI agents have been created using his published work, including 'AI Brendan' helper agents that interpret flame graphs and eBPF …
French President Emmanuel Macron will host global film leaders including Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos, NBCUniversal Entertainment & Studios Chairman Donna Langley, and Disney Entertainment Co-Chairman …
Netflix researchers introduced GenRec, an LLM-backed recommendation ranker that post-trains an internal foundation LLM on Netflix-specific data and objectives, achieving statistically significant impr…
Airbyte introduced a new workspaces feature in its Airbyte Agents Platform, providing finite controls for organizing users, data connectors, and AI agents, and expanded HubSpot write capabilities for …
Bryan Johnson, the tech entrepreneur known for his longevity experiments, revealed on X on 31 July that he is storing his girlfriend Kate Tolo's menstrual blood in a -80°C freezer as part of a $2.6 mi…
ByteDance's AI video app Seedance is partnering with its education app Gauth to launch 'AI Course' on August 4, featuring AI-generated animated lessons for students. Gauth, which has 86 million monthl…
Conductor CEO and co-founder Charlie Holtz launched Conductor Cloud on July 30th, moving the coding-agent manager from local repositories into shared cloud workspaces that continue running after a dev…
San Francisco AI startup LemonLime apologized after offering on-the-spot job interviews to people who got permanent tattoos at its YC Startup School afterparty, drawing comparisons to the Netflix seri…
Netflix will remove a wide selection of titles in August 2026, including the original Sam Raimi Spider-Man trilogy and the sci-fi film Ex Machina, according to the streaming service's monthly departur…
Snowflake and Google Cloud are collaborating on an Apache Iceberg-based lakehouse architecture that enables multi-engine interoperability without data duplication. The approach uses Iceberg as an open…
Warner Bros. is testing a new Shorts feed on HBO Max that lets users discover movies and TV shows by swiping through vertical clips selected by an in-house AI system, and a separate Ask HBO Max featur…
HBO Max announced Tuesday it is testing two new AI-powered mobile features for US customers: HBO Max Shorts, a vertical video tool that uses an in-house AI to help human editors select compelling clip…
Warner Bros. Discovery is launching a vertical video feed called 'HBO Max Shorts' on HBO Max, powered by an in-house AI tool that uses machine learning to suggest compelling scenes from thousands of h…
The third edition of the Reply AI Film Festival, running alongside the Venice Film Festival, has unveiled its 10 selected shorts from 3,000 submissions across 76 countries and announced a jury led by …
Anthropic's Claude Code, launched as a CLI in February 2025, became a developer phenomenon after a native VS Code extension was released on September 29, 2025, as part of Claude Code 2.0. By February …
Netflix's AI Platform team published a detailed account of its LLM serving platform, revealing that version pinning between NVIDIA Triton Inference Server and vLLM, a Python GIL bottleneck, and KV-cac…
Netflix detailed its in-house LLM serving platform built on Triton and vLLM, revealing how it handles real-time and batch inference across CPUs and GPUs while managing version compatibility and constr…
Python is the #1 programming language in the world in 2026, and PwC's Global AI Jobs Barometer finds AI-skilled jobs growing nearly 8x faster than the overall market with a 62% wage premium, yet most …