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Meta launched Muse Image, an image-generation capability available in the Meta AI app on July 7, 2026, and integrated across Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook, Messenger, and Meta's advertising tools. The move embeds generat…
Vanta released GrantGuard, an open-source tool that audits and cleans up permission allowlists built by Claude Code. The tool classifies granted permissions into risk groups and provides a local web UI for one-click remo…
A developer reports that AI coding assistants struggle with UI development, citing issues like ignoring specified frameworks, missing patterns, and misplacing elements, despite performing well on pure code. The user note…
A developer released a working code example enabling two AI-powered VTubers to converse in VTube Studio with a functioning token system for mouth animation, addressing a gap in available resources.
GitHub announced on July 7, 2026, that its standalone Copilot desktop app is now available on every Copilot plan, including Free and Education, across macOS, Windows, and Linux. The move broadens access to agent-driven d…
Microsoft has started routing some AI prompts in Excel and Outlook from OpenAI and Anthropic models to its own MAI models, with tens of thousands of weekly prompts already handled internally, according to Bloomberg. The …
ZkSecurity's AI audit pipeline discovered seven real bugs in Cloudflare's CIRCL cryptography library, including a critical float64 precision loss in threshold RSA and a complete access-control break in attribute-based en…
Artificial Analysis launched Harvey LAB-AA, an independent benchmark testing AI models on 120 legal tasks across 24 practice areas. Claude Fable 5 led with a 14.2% all-pass rate, though results highlight the limitations …
Microsoft is replacing AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic with its own MAI models in products like Excel and Outlook, with tens of thousands of queries per week already running through them. AI chief Mustafa Suleyman ai…
A new survey from Uberall reveals that only 1 in 4 location marketers can demonstrate the impact of their marketing on sales, with disjointed AI tools exacerbating the problem. The article argues that multi-location bran…
Meta released its first image generation model, Muse Spark Image, since CEO Mark Zuckerberg's AI overhaul. The model will be integrated into Meta's AI chatbot and Instagram photo app, marking a key step in the company's …
Kokoro, an 82M-parameter text-to-speech model, now delivers high-quality, realistic speech generation locally on CPU, preserving privacy. The model supports multiple languages and 50 voices, and can be deployed via a Doc…
Apple released a third beta firmware for AirPods Pro 2, AirPods Pro 3, AirPods 4, and AirPods Max 2, build number 9A5314b, available to developers. The update adds support for iOS 27 features including a new AirPods inte…
Docx-CLI, a command-line tool for AI agents to edit Word documents without breaking formatting, achieves up to 6x better task completion and uses 2.2-2.6x fewer tokens compared to the default method of hand-writing OOXML…
A new tool called Design Slop Cop lets users paste a URL to score how AI-generated a website looks, based on common AI design patterns. The project aims to classify the visual patterns that signal a site is purely AI-gen…
Microsoft is offering a lifetime license for Windows 11 Pro at $9.97 (MSRP $199) through July 19, unlocking features like BitLocker encryption, Hyper-V virtualization, and Copilot AI tools. The deal targets users seeking…
GitHub's 2022 experiment found Copilot made developers 55% faster on a scoped task, but a 2025 METR trial with experienced maintainers on real tasks found AI tools made them 19% slower. The discrepancy highlights that AI…
Monogram, co-founded by Eren Bali, launched a visual AI iPhone app and announced a $40 million seed round led by DST Global and Lux Capital. The app generates interactive visual interfaces from AI responses, targeting ev…
Socket's AI scanner detected 17 malicious npm and PyPI packages published on July 7, 2026, that typosquat popular payment apps PaySafe, Skrill, and Neteller to steal credentials and tokens from SDK developers. The packag…
Meta Platforms rolled out Muse Image, its first image-generation model from Meta Superintelligence Labs, integrating it into Meta AI chatbot to power over 30 new effects for Instagram Stories and enable image generation …