Generative AI use in Japan nearly doubled in a year, with 58.8% of respondents reporting usage in fiscal 2025, according to a white paper from Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications released Friday. Howe…
Japanese researchers at the University of Electro-Communications and confectionery maker Ginza Cozy Corner have developed AI-powered robots that replicate the hand movements of skilled confectioners, aiming to preserve t…
NVIDIA Research's Efficient AI Team and Singapore Lab introduced SANA-Video 2.0, a hybrid video diffusion transformer at 5B and 14B scales that generates 720p video on a single H100 GPU. The model achieves a VBench score…
GoodBarber has added a prompt-based AI interface for creating custom app sections, but the company argues that this new method complements rather than replaces drag-and-drop. The prompt is designed for unique, unpredicta…
Machine-learning practitioner Enze Xie unveiled SANA-Video 2.0 on July 24, 2026, a full-stack optimized video model designed for efficiency and high quality. The system uses a hybrid attention architecture mixing dense 3…
Nordtech's CEO Nils Bergman said the company sees AI as an opportunity, as the newcomer reported strong growth in Q2 during an appearance on Börsfrukost.
Chinese unicorn Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 model scored 32.2% on the ExploitBench benchmark, far below the 76.2% average of top unnamed US models, according to a joint study by the UK Artificial Intelligence Security Institut…
A developer built Nyora, a free, open-source manga reader that works across Android, iOS, macOS, Windows, Linux, Web, and Docker, featuring AI-powered on-device translation and cross-platform sync without requiring an ac…
A developer describes building dead-letter queues for LLM extraction pipelines to capture, triage, and replay failed records without losing trust. The approach stores a failure envelope with input, output, schema version…
AI agents cannot see real-time GPU utilization, VRAM, temperatures, or active processes without a GPU-aware MCP server, creating an operational bottleneck for autonomous infrastructure operations. The open-source `gpu-mc…
Anthropic's Claude Cowork desktop app contained a sandbox escape vulnerability that allowed untrusted content inside a Linux VM to read and write files anywhere on the host Mac, including SSH keys and cloud credentials. …
A developer built ORZN, a local task-runner that refuses to mark a task 'done' without proof of execution. The tool records every action and reports 'blocked' if it cannot verify completion, stopping for user approval be…
Figure has reportedly manufactured its 1,000th humanoid robot at its BotQ facility in San Jose, according to a robotics-industry account surfaced by Aligned News, though the company has not confirmed the milestone. The c…
Nexu.io released Codex Slides, an open-source AI slide studio that runs inside the Codex coding agent, allowing users to turn prompts, repositories, or file folders into presentation-ready decks in about 4–5 minutes for …
ETH Zurich, EPFL and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) released Apertus 1.5 on July 24, 2026, the latest version of Switzerland's fully open language model that can now understand images and audio alongside…
Building an AI agent prototype is increasingly easy, but production deployment exposes critical gaps in reliability, according to an analysis based on experience deploying autonomous systems across financial domains. The…
A digest of 26 AI stories from July 24 highlights Tesla's profit dip due to AI investments, OpenAI's 'Model Escape' myth, and the hidden costs of GPU overhead beyond data centers. Other stories cover Google's selfie sign…
A developer tested whether repeatedly asking an AI to "think" before fixing the same Python bug improves debugging performance, finding that the benefit of reasoning prompts like "Let's think step-by-step" is limited to …
Google is expanding access to its Gemini Spark agentic AI assistant to Google AI Pro subscribers in the US and Google AI Ultra subscribers globally, excluding the European Economic Area, Switzerland, the UK and Nigeria. …
Enterprise AI leaders from ZoomInfo, Docusign and AppViewX shared lessons on building AI Centers of Excellence and governing agent identities at scale, detailing daily operations, avoiding parallel identity stacks, and t…