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Fintech company Slash reported that an employee accidentally burned $80,000 in AI tokens building a 'brainrot shooter game' called Brainrot Shooter. The employee, Nicolas Brilliante, Slash's head of strategic verticals, …

Darktable 5.6 introduces its first AI features, including an AI object mask and a neural restore module for denoising and upscaling, all running locally on the user's CPU or GPU. The open-source photo editor emphasizes o…

The British Army's AI system, ASGARD, has reduced corps-level war planning cycles from 72 hours to one hour, according to Chief of the General Staff Gen. Roly Walker. The system processes 10 terabytes of data daily and e…

Age of Agents, a new open-source tool from Agents Mill, visualizes AI coding agent sessions as a real-time strategy game, turning each session into a settler in a pixel-art realm. The tool runs locally alongside CLI work…

Cusman AI, a San Francisco-based startup founded in 2023, has raised $1.2 million in seed funding from NexWave Capital to develop an AI-powered customer success platform that unifies data from multiple business systems. …

Amazon launched Alexa+ Agentic Ads during Cannes Lions and Prime Day, allowing customers to make purchases via voice commands on Echo Show devices, but users and tech reporters have criticized the increased ad load. Mean…

Agencies including WPP, Dentsu, and Butler/Till are racing to develop AI agents for media buying and planning, aiming to gain a competitive edge. However, brands like Hyundai are using the same technology to bring market…

F2, an AI platform for private markets investors, raised $24 million in seed funding led by Highland Capital Partners. The startup, spun out from Arc Technologies in 2025, helps private credit, private equity, and commer…

City law firm Shoosmiths launched a generative AI tool built with Microsoft to assist junior lawyers in reviewing contracts. The tool, known as Project Apollo, is trained on insights from Shoosmiths lawyers and aims to a…

Researchers developed a framework using large language models to quantify product desirability from qualitative feedback, achieving up to 0.97 Pearson correlation and 94% accuracy on two Product Desirability Toolkit data…

Researchers propose a training-free IBA framework for Knowledge-Based VQA that decouples entity identification from evidence re-ranking, outperforming fine-tuned baselines on Encyclopedic-VQA and InfoSeek while reducing …

Researchers introduced HANCLIP, a family of vision-language models that restructure the embedding space to handle negation by combining hyperbolic and angular objectives. Trained on 20,000 image-text quadruplets, HANCLIP…

Researchers propose NaviGen, a system that encodes user behavior history into executable instructions for personalized image and video generation, overcoming misalignment between AIGC pipelines and user intent. Using a d…

Zhipu AI, a Chinese large language model developer, plans a Shanghai STAR Market listing to raise about $2.2 billion, six months after its Hong Kong IPO saw shares surge over 2,000%. The company, with 2025 revenue of 724…

LG's 32GX850A-B UltraGear dual-mode OLED gaming monitor has dropped to a record-low price of $684.50 on Amazon for Prime Day. The 32-inch display offers switchable 4K 165Hz and FHD 330Hz modes, 0.03ms response time, and …

A developer at Krazimo, a company building RAG systems over private knowledge, outlines the most common failure modes in production retrieval-augmented generation. The biggest source of wrong answers is retrieval providi…

Amazon's Prime Day deal drops the Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition bundle to its lowest price ever, offering 37% off ($104 savings) on the package that includes the e-reader, fabric cover, and wireless charging dock.

GitHub Copilot's shift to token-based billing on June 1 revealed that heavy users could see costs rise from $29/month to over $750, exposing the hidden expense of AI coding tools. A developer reported burning $1,850 in u…

Amazon's Prime Day deal offers a ZOTAC MEK Gaming PC featuring an RTX 5080 and Ryzen 7 9800X3D for $200 off the regular price, bringing the cost to $2,119.99. The system includes 32GB DDR5 RAM, 2TB NVMe SSD, and liquid c…

A CTO cut inference costs by 40-65% by replacing GPT-4o with a mix of DeepSeek, Qwen, and GLM models via the Line AI Chatbot framework, which uses a model-agnostic API to avoid vendor lock-in. The system routes requests …