A developer building wimux, a terminal multiplexer for Windows in Rust, found that AI agents could not fix three bugs caused by interactions between ConPTY, xterm.js, and the server-side grid. The bugs were resolved by d…
DocSlicer, a new structure-aware document parser, achieves 31 pages per second on CPU and scored 0.88 overall on the BizDocBench benchmark, outperforming the next-best tool's 0.70. The deterministic parser handles PDF, D…
Sarah Newman, director of art and education at metaLAB at Harvard, is collecting anonymous confessions about AI use through a wooden box at events, revealing widespread uncertainty and angst over appropriate use of the t…
The Nasdaq 100 briefly entered correction territory Tuesday as global chip and memory stocks sold off sharply, with shares of Sandisk, Western Digital, Seagate, Micron, and AMD all falling around 10% in early trading. Th…
Apple's latest software update, iOS and iPadOS 26.6, patches a record 87 security vulnerabilities, with an additional 155 fixes for Macs, many identified by security researchers using AI-assisted tools like Anthropic's C…
Women aged over 55 are losing their jobs to AI and ending up on benefits at a frightening rate, according to a Daily Mail article by former fashion editor Stacey Duguid, who described her own downfall from a six-figure s…
Nvidia and Meta are backing open AI models, challenging the proprietary model moats of OpenAI and Anthropic. The support from two of the largest tech companies could shift the competitive landscape toward open-source AI …
Stripe economist Ernie Tedeschi found that artificial intelligence is not driving the current US productivity boom, with total factor productivity growth remaining near zero despite heavy AI investment. The analysis show…
Anthropic PBC and Nvidia Corp. are opposing blanket bans on open-weight AI models, urging U.S. regulators to focus on specific risks such as controlling AI chip exports, preventing industrial-scale distillation, and requ…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said on July 27 that the company does not support a blanket ban on open-weight AI models, instead calling for chip controls, action against industrial-scale distillation, and safety tests for s…
USC computer science researcher Souti (Rini) Chattopadhyay has launched a five-year, $600,000 NSF CAREER Award project to study how humans and AI interact to enhance creativity and critical thinking, using EEG to track b…
Google has added environment hooks to managed agents in its Gemini API, letting developers run custom code before and after every tool call and cancel calls outright, with Gemini 3.6 Flash becoming the default model. The…
Google has updated its Gemini API managed agents with Gemini 3.6 Flash as the default model, adding environment hooks, token budget controls, scheduled execution, sandbox management, and free tier access. The update allo…
A developer built a free QR Menu Builder SaaS using Laravel 12, React, Inertia.js, and Tailwind CSS to help restaurant owners manage menus online and generate QR codes. The project focused on a simple, modular database d…
The MCP specification went final on 2026-07-28, and SDK betas for Python, TypeScript, Go, and C# are now available, with Tier 1 stable releases expected in 4–6 weeks. TypeScript faces the most disruptive migration, requi…
Raj Savaliya introduced AyeWatch, an AI-powered internet monitor that continuously watches the web and sends real-time alerts only when activity matches user-defined rules. The tool aims to replace manual checking and re…
A developer built a fully client-side ID photo maker using a three-tier face detection chain (MediaPipe, Browser FaceDetector, BlazeFace) with anthropometric head measurement and background removal. The solution runs ent…
Abliterating refusal directions from open-weight LLMs causes measurable off-target effects, including increased optimism, according to a study by researchers using 21,600 stock-market decisions. Comparing abliterated and…
Mirage launched Avatar X on Tuesday, an AI video model that the New York company says can build a speaking digital twin from 10 seconds of recorded footage. The model powers AI Twin inside Captions, Mirage's video creati…
A Casa Grande, Arizona man named Jacob Petrosky used a satirical proposal to protest the city's use of Flock surveillance cameras, announcing a fake company called Shepherd Safety that would use AI-powered satellites to …