Character.AI users are flooding Reddit with complaints that recent updates have ruined the popular chatbot app, with many describing the new AI model as "lobotomized" and generic. The company has replaced user-favored AI…
On May 18, Cursor released Composer 2.5, a coding model that matches frontier performance at roughly one-tenth the cost, scoring 79.8% on SWE-Bench Multilingual and 63.2% on CursorBench v3.1. The model runs on Moonshot A…
A Brazilian developer created an emergency web page that sends SMS and email alerts with geolocation data to designated contacts, addressing concerns about being without a phone due to robbery, dead batteries, or device …
Arize AI released the Arize AX Airflow Provider, an open-source Apache Airflow integration designed to automate the feedback loop for production LLM applications and AI agents. The provider includes over 95 operators, 8 …
Hideo Kojima appears in an AI-generated advertisement for Prada, fulfilling a long-held desire to go to space—but only virtually. The ad, created using artificial intelligence, features the game director in a futuristic …
Voice AI company ElevenLabs launched Music v2, a music-generation model that can switch genres mid-track, such as transitioning from opera to heavy metal, and allows artists to edit specific song sections without affecti…
The 2026 Tribeca Festival will host the world premiere of "Dreams of Violets," the first fully AI-generated live-action film accepted by a major film festival, on June 10. The 75-minute docudrama, produced by Foundation …
New research published in Nature Neuroscience reveals that abdominal muscle contractions during movement push blood through a spinal vein network, causing the brain to shift inside the skull. Penn State neuroscientist Pa…
A developer reports that most failures in production RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) systems stem from retrieval and data quality issues, not the language model itself. Common problems include degraded retrieval acc…
Non-technical "citizen builders" using generative AI tools to rapidly develop applications are creating systemic security exposures, as AI agents frequently recommend insecure configurations like public storage access an…
An autonomous social media agent built by Ramagiri Tharun failed seven times during a 12-day run, encountering issues ranging from LinkedIn API version mismatches and duplicate posts to expired tokens and content duplica…
North Korea has conducted its first test of AI-guided missiles, with leader Kim Jong Un observing the launch. The test marks a significant advancement in the country's weapons technology, integrating artificial intellige…
GitHub Copilot CLI now supports plugins and a marketplace system that lets developers package reusable agents, skills, hooks, and MCP server integrations as installable packages. Instead of manually copying configuration…
Webflow announced a company restructuring and layoffs today, with many employees leaving the company as part of a shift toward building an "agentic web marketing platform." CEO Vlad Magazin said the decision was driven b…
HookProbe has developed a Neural-Kernel cognitive defense system that automates incident response at the network edge, achieving sub-millisecond threat neutralization by moving decision-making logic closer to the data so…
A developer discovered that AI inference speed is limited not by computational power but by the "Memory Wall"—the bottleneck in moving data from memory to the compute unit. A 7-billion-parameter model must transfer rough…
A clinical informaticist launched Cydoc in 2018 to automate intake forms and clinical notes, but the company shut down by August 2025 after failing to integrate with electronic health records (EHR). Doctors had to manual…
Apollo's Marc Rowan told a16z that AI application layer startups can still succeed by avoiding direct competition with OpenAI and Anthropic on horizontal tools like code generation and writing. Rowan argued that the most…
India's Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has mandated that organizations patch, mitigate, or disconnect internet-facing and critical systems within 12 hours of a vulnerability being exploited. The directive com…
Conductor, a multi-agent IDE startup founded by former Vercel employee Charlie Holtz, launched Cloud Workspaces built on Vercel Sandboxes to enable developers to run multiple parallel coding agents remotely instead of on…