Fox Corporation acquired Roku for $22 billion, paying $160 per share in cash and stock, to gain control over the streaming platform used by 100 million households. The deal shifts Fox's strategy from content ownership to…
Jian Chen, Yesheng Liang, and Zhijian Liu integrated Z Lab's DFlash block diffusion speculative decoding method into SGLang, collaborating with Modal and LMSYS. The team reports up to 4.31x higher throughput on Qwen 3.5 …
A developer's guide to budget prompt engineering reveals that maximizing information density while minimizing token count can achieve premium-tier productivity from budget models like GPT-4.1-mini, DeepSeek-V3, and Phi-4…
WorkOS launched Auth.md, an open protocol for AI agent registration that uses a machine-readable Markdown file at a service root to enable dynamic discovery of OAuth Protected Resource Metadata and seamless authenticatio…
A developer published a tutorial on building a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system using Python and OpenAI's SDK, with a focus on applications in the GCC region. The system uses Pinecone as a vector database for …
Florida's facial recognition system FACESNXT has led to at least two documented wrongful arrests, with Jalil Richardson spending 93 days in jail and Robert Dillon losing his job after being falsely matched to crimes they…
Researchers have developed an anti-slop framework that reduces repetitive and robotic text outputs from large language models by 90%. The framework combines a backtracking sampler, an automated pipeline to identify overu…
Jason and Myke discuss Apple's WWDC announcements after testing beta releases, highlighting impressive Siri AI and comparing the updates to Snow Leopard.
Sanity analyzed 1.46 million AI agent tool calls from 12,300 users across 12,500 organizations between September 2025 and April 2026, finding that 8% of users drive 68% of activity and the heaviest user is a content mark…
The Seattle Fire Department has been using Corti AI to listen to all 911 medical calls since December 2023 without public disclosure or city council approval, routing callers to a nurse line in Texas. The department did …
UC Berkeley's computer science enrollment decline is driven by supply-side constraints, not AI or job market fears, as the university reduced admissions targets and restricted course access due to rising labor costs. Des…
Oura partnered with Counsel Health to launch an AI-enabled connected-care experience within the Oura App, allowing members to consult medical AI and licensed physicians directly. Starting June 16, eligible members in 43 …
Meta announced a suite of AI tools for Facebook, including a chatbot called AI Mode that answers questions using data from Groups and Reels, photo-editing features with collage cutouts and video montages, and AI presets …
Big Tech lobbyists are making a final push for a federal AI preemption law, but the White House's plan to combine it with child safety legislation has caused confusion and political backlash. The proposed deal, which wou…
A Hacker News user argues that AGI will not emerge from current LLM architectures, predicting a need for a DNA-based system capable of holding models billions of times larger, with low clock speeds but full-model updates…
An AI researcher since the mid-2010s laments that the field has become less enjoyable after ChatGPT, citing a shift from blue-sky exploration to economic impact, unaffordable GPUs for academic labs, and unwanted commerci…
A developer built a custom animation tool for the Open Duck Mini robot, pairing it with the Gemini Live API to enable human-robot interaction through gestures like nodding and shaking its head. The project explores how r…
Google's John Mueller said on a Search Relations podcast that llms.txt files cannot be used by LLM systems for discovery because they are self-reported and untrustworthy, pointing back to standard HTML pages and internal…
Peec AI analyzed 37,804 AI responses from 1,754 prompts across five LLM engines and found that over 90% of phrasing variations carried similar meaning, with concise keyword prompts surfacing up to 20% more brands than op…
Kalshi, a CFTC-regulated prediction-market exchange, has developed an internal AI agent called Harrison, built on Anthropic's Claude model, to stress-test contract wording and logic, summarize news, analyze competitors, …