Researchers at Apple have developed PICO (Perceptual Image Codec), the first learned image compression model optimized for human visual perception and practical on-device deployment. The codec achieves 2.3-3× bitrate sav…
Pope Leo XIV will release his first encyclical, titled "Magnifica Humanitas," on Monday, focusing on preserving human dignity amid the rise of artificial intelligence. The pope will be joined at the Vatican by Anthropic …
Hackers are shifting from technical exploits to psychological manipulation to bypass AI chatbot safety guardrails, using tactics like roleplaying and deception to extract prohibited information. Early attacks such as the…
A firefighter, an entrepreneur, and a dad used AI tools to build custom apps solving everyday problems without writing code. The non-technical users instructed chatbots like Claude and Lovable to create solutions for gro…
Project Open Hand, a San Francisco nonprofit that prepares medically tailored meals for people with serious illnesses, has deployed robots from Chef Robotics to help assemble meal kits in its Tenderloin facility. The org…
A developer built a social arcade called Migo Games using Elixir on Phoenix for the backend and Swift with SpriteKit for native iOS and Mac apps, with web versions also available. The project was created almost entirely …
A new study published in *PLOS One* analyzed 351,734 relationship narratives and found that the gap between emotional intensity and narrative complexity is a deliberate communication strategy, not an error. The research,…
McKinsey & Company launched an AI-powered interview preparation tool in April to help entry-level job candidates practice quantitative case studies at no cost, aiming to reduce reliance on paid coaching services. The glo…
Reality TV star Spencer Pratt is leveraging viral AI-generated videos and online fame to gain traction in the Los Angeles mayoral race, where the Republican candidate has surged in polls against incumbent Democrat Mayor …
OpenAI, Nvidia, ElevenLabs, and Kakao are now using Google's SynthID watermarking system for AI-generated content, which Google says has already been applied to 100 billion images and videos plus 60,000 years of audio. T…
AWS released its managed Model Context Protocol (MCP) server as generally available, providing AI coding agents with controlled access to all AWS APIs, documentation, and operational workflows through a standardized inte…
Agentic coding tools have eliminated the friction of producing software output, but they have not reduced the friction of determining what is worth building or whether it fits the system. The principle of writing as litt…
Spanish shipbuilder Navantia has launched a 75-meter crewless warship designed to operate as a drone vessel with sensors and modular payloads. The vessel eliminates the need for onboard sailors, marking a significant ste…
OpenAI co-founder and President Greg Brockman revealed in a new interview that the company's original Napa offsite produced the three-step technical plan it has followed for a decade, and detailed the 72 hours after Sam …
TypeScript is often misunderstood as merely "JavaScript with types," but this definition captures only about 30% of its value. Its true power lies not in preventing runtime errors, but in enforcing system design discipli…
The author describes being inspired by Google I/O 2026 to create a Telugu-language AI assistant, similar to "Jarvis." They argue that AI should be accessible in regional languages like Telugu to help millions of Indian s…
Here is a factual summary of the article: The article details a stress test of the Gemma 4 E4B model's 128K context window on a laptop GPU (RTX 5050). The test found that while the model's recall of information within t…
The article announces the release of a Python SDK for the Tell A Bot API, which provides temporary US phone numbers to receive SMS messages and OTP codes for over 700 services. The SDK allows developers to automate phone…
The article summarizes key lessons from the book *Cracking the Coding Interview*, emphasizing that technical interviews test problem-solving ability and practical coding skills rather than academic knowledge or memory. I…