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Alex Bores lost narrowly in NY-12 and will not head to Congress. GLM-5.2 is the new best open model but expensive. Dean Ball joins OpenAI for policy work. A new GPT-5.5-Instant version was released without proper version…
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Alex Bores lost narrowly in NY-12 and will not head to Congress. GLM-5.2 is the new best open model but expensive. Dean Ball joins OpenAI for policy work. A new GPT-5.5-Instant version was released without proper version…
Anthropic launched Claude Code's Automatic Mode, which uses an AI classifier to autonomously approve safe development tasks while blocking dangerous actions, reducing the need for manual permissions. The feature is avail…
Amazon Prime Day has dropped the Samsung Galaxy Tab S10+ 5G to an all-time low price of $930, down from its original $1,250. The deal is available across multiple cellular networks including AT&T, T-Mobile, and US Cellul…
The tech industry is falling into a 'tool trap' by over-optimizing for specific agent protocols like MCP and AI Skills instead of developing a broader Agent Experience (AX) discipline. AX, the agent-facing counterpart to…
Samsung's Galaxy S26 Ultra, starting at $1,300, introduces a Privacy Display feature that effectively blocks screen peeking but comes with tradeoffs like reduced screen quality. The phone offers flagship performance, sol…
A researcher has developed a prompting technique called 'LLM curving' that shifts large language models from token-by-token prediction to a holistic self-organization mode, aiming to improve reasoning density and reduce …
Cache, an open-source AI bookmark manager, launched to help users collect, organize, and rediscover saved content across platforms. The tool offers features like full-text search, OCR, AI-powered insights, and daily dige…
A developer built LingoChunk, a tool that converts native language audio into Anki flashcards and shadowing practice, supporting 15 input languages and over 30 output languages. The tool extracts words, finds base forms,…
US Customs and Border Protection has partnered with Tru Identity, Inc. to use artificial intelligence for cargo screening, aiming to catch tariff evasion and illegal imports before they reach US soil. Tru Identity's plat…
The team at Notionmind Dev.to reports that AI tools like ChatGPT and Google AI Overview are replacing traditional search engines as the primary way customers discover businesses. To appear in AI-generated answers, compan…
The Authors Guild tested five AI detectors on human-written texts, finding that Pangram and Grammarly correctly identified all of them, while Sidekicker and ZeroGPT falsely flagged human-written articles as AI-generated.…
Thijs, founder of Prototyper, launched the first visual canvas built for AI agents, operating as a distributed web-based Unix kernel where everything is a file. The workspace allows any agent to read and write files in u…
VibeSolve, an open-source tool, converts plain-English descriptions of optimization problems into Timefold code, leveraging LLMs for rapid prototyping. The tool outperforms direct LLM queries for Timefold code generation…
FIFA will provide all 48 teams at the 2026 World Cup with Football AI Pro, a generative AI assistant co-developed with Lenovo, to democratize match analysis. The system, trained on hundreds of millions of data points, of…
LocalClicky, a new open-source voice assistant for Mac, runs entirely offline using local AI models like Whisper.cpp and Ollama, ensuring no voice data, screenshots, or commands leave the user's machine. The tool offers …
Superhuman acquired AI detection startup GPTZero on June 23, 2026, integrating its technology into the Superhuman Go assistant to add an authenticity layer for content. The deal signals that detection is becoming a bundl…
A developer built Vibe-Memory, an AI-powered semantic memory system that addresses ChatGPT's lack of long-term memory. The system uses pgvector on PostgreSQL and OpenAI embeddings to store and retrieve personal context a…
Flama 2.0 introduces a CLI tool that allows users to download, package, and serve large language models from HuggingFace with a single command, including a built-in chat interface and production-ready API. The tool suppo…
A new analysis of serverless databases for AI applications finds that decoupling compute and storage is critical for cost efficiency and performance, with studies showing 38% average cost reductions and 65% fewer infrast…
A developer built AI Prompt Toolkit, a collection of seven free browser-based tools for prompt engineering that require no sign-up and process all data locally. The tools include token estimation, JSON schema generation,…