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Google Vids announced that AI avatars are now available for free users, with the Workspace video creation tool serving 7 million monthly users. Free users get 10 video generations per month, and paid users will soon gain…
Clarecast released its inaugural industry report on June 17, 2026, identifying nearly 10,000 companies at risk of AI-driven workforce contraction and over 1,300 showing signs of a full 'Quiet Restructuring' pattern. The …
Nitrosend launched an AI-native email platform called Email for Codex that operates within AI agents like Codex, ChatGPT, and Claude Code, enabling users to build transactional emails, automated flows, and newsletters fr…
A Pew Research Center survey found that men are more likely than women to use AI chatbots regularly and for work tasks, while women are more skeptical about AI's impact. The gender gap in overall chatbot use has closed s…
A Pew Research Center survey of over 5,000 U.S. adults found that while most adults under 30 use AI chatbots, they are the most skeptical about AI's future impact, with roughly half saying AI will negatively affect socie…
A new Pew Research Center survey finds that 29% of Americans associate AI with chatbots, making it the most common technology linked to AI in their minds. Nearly four-in-ten U.S. adults say they engage with AI at least s…
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and a cheaper MiniMax-M3 agent, named Hermes, built and now run a news site autonomously, with a human setting direction and a git repository providing an audit trail. The founder tasked Claude…
A developer spent three weeks testing AI note-taking tools Otter, Fireflies, Fathom, and smaller players on real meetings. Fathom was kept for client calls due to its clean post-meeting experience, while Otter had the mo…
Catloaf Software launched a Voicemails feature for its Text With Jesus app, allowing users to request spoken audio responses from biblical figures during faith-based AI conversations. The feature aims to provide a more p…
A developer built a basic AI agent from scratch with human-in-the-loop controls and security features, adding permission modes that require user approval for risky actions like writing files or running shell commands. Th…
Twenty, a startup building AI-enabled offensive cyber weapons for the US military and intelligence community, raised a $100 million Series B led by Accel, valuing it at $1 billion. The company aims to industrialize cyber…
Google unveiled a new $99.99 Home speaker with Gemini AI integration, its first standalone smart speaker in six years, aiming to compete with Apple and Amazon. The device features 360-degree audio and conversational AI c…
Google is testing two new features for NotebookLM: Personal Intelligence, which gives the tool memory of past conversations, and AI Editing, which lets users edit notes via chat. The features follow an upgrade to Gemini …
The Garden of Memory experimental-music festival celebrates its 30th anniversary on the Summer Solstice at Oakland's Chapel of the Chimes, a columbarium designed by Julia Morgan. Dozens of experimental musicians perform …
Meta launched AI Mode in Facebook search, drawing on public posts from Facebook Groups and Instagram Reels to answer complex queries. In testing, the feature provided mixed results, including hallucinated recommendations…
Retired French striker Olivier Giroud, who once detailed his strategy to stop Lionel Messi in the 2022 World Cup final, has been appointed Global Brand Ambassador for BitradeX, an AI-driven crypto trading platform. The p…
Nitsan Bartov, an ambassador for Krea.ai, argues in an Architizer essay that traditional architectural skills such as art history, color theory, and composition remain essential as AI tools enter design workflows. Bartov…
Nvidia demonstrated an agentic robotics system called ENPIRE that taught fleets of robots to perform dexterous tasks, including handing a GPU to another arm and positioning it over a motherboard. The system, which uses 8…
Coherent broke ground on an expanded indium phosphide wafer fab in Sherman, Texas, with NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang and Coherent CEO Jim Anderson attending the June 16 ceremony. The facility, supported by a $50 million CHIPS…
Entrepreneurs are increasingly managing teams of AI agents to handle customer service, scheduling, bookkeeping, email management, and research, using platforms like OpenClaw. A Nasdaq Economic Institute report cited by A…