June, founded by Efrat Rapoport, Ohad Hen, Barak Goldstein, and Idan Tsitiat, launched from stealth on Monday with $20 million in pre-seed funding led by Marc Benioff's Time Ventures, with backing from Michael Dell, Box …
At the opening of the 3rd International Olympiad in Artificial Intelligence in Astana, Bagdat Mussin, Chairman of the Board of JSC Kazakhtelecom, said the event brings together more than 400 young AI talents from 106 cou…
Minimax has introduced the H3 Prompt Enhancer, a tool that converts raw creative requests into detailed production briefs for its generative video model. The system interprets multimodal inputs, including text, images, v…
A developer known as tanahiro2010, a member of GDG Greater Kwansai, built a bridge for Google's new WebMCP draft spec and shared insights from a hands-on session at Google I/O Extended Osaka 2026. The bridge, named webmc…
Google DeepMind released Gemini Robotics 2 on July 30, a suite of three AI models that control full humanoid bodies, including walking, crouching, and fine-motor manipulation, demonstrated on Apptronik's Apollo 2 humanoi…
Apple Inc. imposed caps on open bug reports per researcher and a 30-day cooldown period in June 2026 after AI-generated submissions flooded its security bounty pipeline, causing Italian startup Bynario to be blocked from…
Apple Inc.'s MacBook Air is facing its worst supply shortage in recent memory, with delivery estimates on Apple's online store ranging from two to six weeks and higher-RAM configurations facing longer delays, according t…
OpenAI launched Presence on July 22 as a managed enterprise platform for deploying production voice and chat AI agents, with no self-serve option. BBVA Mexico, SoftBank Corp., and Australian insurer IAG are among the fir…
AI-powered agent orchestration is challenging the monotasking philosophy, according to a developer who finds managing multiple coding agents in parallel can boost productivity despite splitting attention. The author argu…
Anthropic's Claude generation 5 models (Sonnet 5, Opus 5, Fable 5) show a measurable quality regression on the BullshitBench dataset, engaging with nonsense prompts instead of rejecting them at a higher rate than generat…
Newsroom, a self-hosted, AI-ranked meta-aggregator for Hacker News, Substack, podcasts, Bluesky, Reddit, and other feeds, was released on GitHub. The Node.js-based tool combines keyword and optional AI ranking to create …
Wall Street shrugged off a global slump as S&P 500 futures rose 0.49% ahead of Palantir Technologies' Q2 earnings, while electric air taxis from Joby Aviation are set for pilot projects this summer. Joby Aviation executi…
Snowflake's Per-User Quota feature, now in Public Preview, enables administrators to set per-user credit limits for warehouses and AI features, addressing challenges such as disproportionate resource consumption and dela…
Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2026 is available for a one-time $29.97 lifetime license, down from $499.99, until August 9 at 11:59 p.m., offering a traditional IDE with AI-assisted coding via IntelliCode, real-tim…
Small Bitcoin transfers spiked to 39,600 BTC on July 31, the highest since FTX's collapse, as holders moved funds following news that Coldcard hardware wallets generated guessable keys, according to CryptoQuant. Galaxy R…
Google is redesigning the voice search button on Android home screens into a swipeable toolbar with four modes—Search, AI Mode, Search Live, and Song Search—currently in beta testing on the Google app, according to 9to5G…
CodeBot, a new AI assistant for Delphi developers, offers local/cloud hybrid code completion and refactoring, with a free tier of 500 requests per day. In testing, it generated unit tests in two seconds and provided 80% …
PISIGuard, a new privacy tool, acts as a proxy layer that scans AI prompts in real-time and masks personally identifiable information (PII) such as names, email addresses, and social security numbers before they reach AI…
A developer detailed how to build a modern chat interface using only CSS and JavaScript, covering semantic markup, bubble styling, a CSS-only typing indicator, smart auto-scrolling, and accessibility features like aria-l…
Ikea's AI-powered customer service bot Billie, launched five years ago, now handles three-quarters of customer queries, but instead of laying off call center workers, the retailer retrained them, turning those centers in…