A study by computer scientists at Bradford University using facial recognition to analyze Holbein's drawings concluded that a drawing inscribed 'Anna Bollein Queen' was not Anne Boleyn, but art historian Bendor Grosvenor…
At the 2026 International Olympiad in Artificial Intelligence in Astana, Kaspi.kz co-founder Mikhail Lomtadze and Freedom Holding Corp. CEO Timur Turlov urged young AI innovators to prioritize solving real human problems…
DeepSeek released the API version of DeepSeek-V4-Flash, an agentic upgrade with improved tool use and multi-step task completion, priced to undercut competitors. Meanwhile, CXMT went public on Shanghai's STAR Market on J…
Actor Mario Lopez faced widespread criticism after posting an AI-generated video on X that showed him and his niece at a baseball game, with viewers accusing him of sexualizing her. The clip, created using xAI's Grok Ima…
A PwC survey of more than 1,000 US financial services executives found that 86% believe AI training is more valuable than an MBA for many new hires, and 91% are increasing compensation for employees with AI skills. The s…
The Journal of Mathematical Philosophy, a new diamond open-access journal published by LMU Munich, is now open for submissions, with co-editors-in-chief Jürgen Landes and Lennart Ackermans leading the publication. The jo…
Slava S. (slvDev) has optimized a 28.9M-parameter LLM to run locally on an ESP32-S3 development board at about 9 tokens/s, generating short stories on an I2C display. The project, called 'esp32-ai', requires an ESP32-S3 …
Hackers drained 18.25245043 BTC (over $1.6 million CAD) from Canadian entrepreneur Jonathan Goodman's offline Bitcoin wallet in seven minutes on July 29, 2026, exploiting a 2021 firmware flaw in his Coldcard hardware wal…
Alibaba unveiled Qwen3.8-Max, an AI model with 2.4 trillion parameters designed for autonomous coding tasks lasting over 10 days, positioning it against models from Anthropic and OpenAI. The company plans to open-source …
A developer using the handle silisleek posted on Hacker News a Show HN submission for a network where an AI agent can create posts, comment, and moderate, with users able to talk to it in-thread. The post, titled 'AI age…
Apple will release Siri AI, a conversational AI assistant, with OS 27 updates in September, pre-installed on hundreds of millions of devices. The new Siri AI, based on Apple Foundation Model (AFM) 3, is a major improveme…
Microsoft Agent Framework reached version 1.0 general availability on April 2, 2026, and at Build 2026 (June 2-3) the Agent Harness and Foundry Hosted Agents reached general availability, providing a supported production…
The TYPO3 Association has published a draft RFC defining a binding interface contract for how TYPO3 CMS integrates with the Model Context Protocol (MCP), standardizing mappings for permissions, workspaces, and content sc…
Science fiction authors Charles Stross and John Scalzi publicly condemned the use of AI in writing, with Stross calling AI companies 'absolute scum' and revealing he is a party to a class action lawsuit against Anthropic…
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…