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Sixteen proposals for improving AI safety include creating a centralized hiring database to reduce the inefficiency of matching talent to organizations, hosting a large open-access conference for recruiting and career pl…
A designer-turned-developer has launched Scrape Agent, a pay-per-use web scraping API built with Claude's assistance that charges $0.01 USDC per call via the x402 micropayment protocol. The API extracts text, links, HTML…
IHG Hotels & Resorts and Evolve executives warned at the Skift Data + AI Summit 2026 that operational fundamentals like infrastructure, data hygiene, and clean APIs are more critical than flashy technology for scaling AI…
Canva previewed Canva AI 2.0, a product shift that moves the design workflow from selecting templates to starting with a user's "imagination," according to a post on X. The change represents a meaningful departure for th…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has requested a meeting with Senator Bernie Sanders, who recently proposed legislation requiring the federal government to take a 50% ownership stake in frontier AI labs. Sanders confirmed the Wedne…
A developer building LinkShift.app, a programmable redirect platform, created a single Markdown file that serves as a single source of truth for both human-readable documentation and AI assistant context. The rendering p…
María Benjumea opened South Summit 2026 in Madrid on June 3 by declaring artificial intelligence "a tool for growth" and urging Europe to unify beyond its "27 borders." The event, running through June 5, gathers over 20,…
Perplexity unveiled a hybrid inference platform at Computex that dynamically routes AI tasks between a user's personal device and cloud servers, with automatic routing set to begin in July. The system, presented alongsid…
ElevenLabs has partnered with Hasbro’s AI Studio to license characters including Optimus Prime, Mr. Potato Head, and Mr. Monopoly for commercial AI voice use through its Iconic Marketplace. The deal, announced Wednesday …
SpaceX is set to debut as one of the largest IPOs in history with a $1.75 trillion valuation on June 12, but Morningstar analyst Nicholas Owens values the company at just $780 billion—55% below the target. Owens warned t…
Nvidia has acquired Kumo AI, a four-year-old startup that develops foundation models for business predictions, according to two sources familiar with the deal. The startup's three co-founders transitioned to Nvidia last …
Aeterna, a new digital legacy platform, launched to help individuals preserve their life stories through AI-guided voice interviews and create interactive archives for family members. The service uses weekly prompts for …
GitClear's analysis of 211 million lines of code reveals that refactoring is declining while duplicated code is increasing, a pattern the project attributes to agentic tech debt. A developer created a plugin that logs ev…
Martin Scorsese, the 83-year-old Oscar-winning director, joined German AI firm Black Forest Labs as an adviser, becoming the highest-profile filmmaker to embrace generative AI for storyboarding and filmmaking. The partne…
A developer built Market Verdict, a Go-based application that analyzes business ideas and returns a structured, practical assessment before founders invest months building the wrong product. The tool scores ideas by comb…
Fairplay announced plans to explore AI-powered personalization technologies to enhance user experience, improve content discovery, and increase platform accessibility, according to a June 3, 2026 press release. The compa…
Filmmaker Boots Riley publicly criticized Martin Scorsese for endorsing AI startup Black Forest Labs, accusing the 83-year-old director of prioritizing financial gain over industry concerns. Scorsese signed on as an advi…
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar declined to confirm whether the company’s device, led by former Apple designer Jony Ive, is an earpiece. Friar did not provide any details on the device’s form factor during her remarks. The lack o…
A forecaster and investor who claims consistent success in predicting economic and geopolitical outcomes argues that human behavior is far more predictable than commonly assumed, citing a track record of accurate calls f…
A developer built Hoovik, an open-source AI-powered video meeting platform that combines WebRTC signaling, distributed Node.js with Redis, real-time emotion AI, and a Python transcription pipeline. The platform uses a mu…