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Anthropic launched a 'reflect' feature for its Claude chatbot, offering users a year-in-review dashboard that analyzes usage patterns, peak times, and common topics. The feature, available in beta to free, Pro, and Max s…
Anthropic released a new Reflect dashboard for its Claude chatbot that provides users with usage summaries, topic breakdowns, and AI fluency recommendations to help them use the tool more efficiently and eventually log o…
Forward-deployed engineers (FDEs) are emerging as a key role in the AI-driven job market, according to a Forbes analysis. The piece examines how technical expertise remains crucial as AI reshapes employment, with FDEs po…
Character.AI launched c.ai Series on July 9, 2026, a set of mobile microdramas that combine short-form video with post-episode character chat, with the first three titles being Last Summer, The Nighttime Game, and Eden F…
FableCut, a browser-based non-linear video editor, exposes its entire timeline as a JSON document, allowing AI agents to edit video via MCP/REST while humans work simultaneously. The zero-dependency tool features Premier…
Microsoft released VS Code 1.128 on July 8, introducing multi-chat agent sessions that allow parallel AI conversations within a single workspace, and making Copilot Vision generally available without requiring IT admin a…
Character.AI launched c.ai Series, short-form interactive animated videos made with generative AI, entering the microdrama market projected to reach $26 billion. The platform's three initial series allow viewers to chat …
Databricks' internal benchmark of AI agents on its multi-million-line codebase reveals that token costs are misleading, agent harness design significantly impacts performance, and open-source models like GLM 5.2 rival pr…
SpaceXAI's Grok 4.5, OpenAI's GPT-5.5, and Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 and Fable 5 were evaluated on single-prompt app-building tests, revealing a trade-off between speed and correctness. Grok 4.5 offers high throughput …
A developer argues that senior engineers who refuse to use AI tools are being outperformed by juniors who embrace them, citing a staff engineer with 14 years of experience being outshipped by a junior with 8 months who u…
Image Line's FL Studio 2026 upgrades its Gopher AI chatbot from a manual to an assistant engineer that can execute actions like laying down drum patterns and adding effects, though it cannot create automation or select s…
HoneyBook, an AI-powered CRM platform for independent business owners, launched new features for photographers including client photo galleries, mini-session booking, and two-way SMS. The tools aim to consolidate workflo…
Character.ai launched c.ai Series, a collection of microseries in anime, horror, and action-adventure genres, allowing users over 18 to chat with characters after episodes. The company aims to deepen fan engagement and l…
Character.AI is launching its own microdrama series featuring AI characters, with an interactive twist allowing users over 18 to chat with and roleplay with the characters. The startup aims to eventually let users create…
An autonomous data pipeline at a company poisoned its own vector store by ingesting hallucinated outputs from a large language model, creating a feedback loop that degraded retrieval accuracy without triggering any monit…
JetBrains launched AI for Teams and Organizations, a governance suite that unifies fragmented AI-assisted software development by providing a centralized control layer for managing coding assistants, AI agents, and costs…
Claude Cowork, Anthropic's AI assistant, successfully completed seven non-coding tasks for a ZDNET writer, including analyzing Home Depot spending, organizing PDFs, fixing servers, sorting documents, and reviewing contra…
Starbucks is developing in-house AI tools to replace software from Microsoft and IBM, aiming to cut costs as part of a $2 billion savings plan. The coffee chain is building alternatives to Microsoft's inventory system an…
Calnode, a self-hostable open-source scheduling app combining booking, video calls, and recording in a single Go binary, launched with AI-native conversational booking and an MCP server for agent integration. The tool ru…
OpenAI is set to launch ChatGPT Work today, July 9, in a livestream event, marking its biggest work-focused update. The new feature is expected to include dedicated workspace layers for team collaboration, Codex-powered …