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World, a crypto and digital identity project backed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, is expanding access to AgentKit, a framework that links AI agents to verified human identities via World ID. The platform helps businesses dis…
PC Guide editor Shaun Conroy, who has built and tested hundreds of PCs, has identified five prebuilt gaming PC deals on Amazon Prime Day that offer exceptional value and record-low pricing, including models from CyberPow…
A developer has created a small LLM that runs inside MIT's Scratch by compiling the llama2.c inference code to Scratch blocks using llvm2scratch. The project, called LLM from Scratch, allows users to generate text token-…
A peer-reviewed critique in Nature reveals that Microsoft's 2025 quantum breakthrough, claiming observation of Majorana particles, was based on Python programming errors. Dr. Henry Legg of the University of St. Andrews f…
Gartner predicts that by 2028, AI coding costs will surpass the average developer's salary due to surging token consumption and consumption-based pricing. Many organizations lack visibility into these costs, risking budg…
Home Depot is integrating AI across its operations, including a new AI assistant called Magic Apron and a customer service system built with Google Cloud, to enhance shopping and worker efficiency. The retailer has appoi…
DeepSeek's open-source reasoning model, which matched top closed systems on math and coding benchmarks, can be run locally via Ollama, but most users will only access smaller distilled versions, not the full headline mod…
Chunking strategies determine which slices of a document reach an AI model's context window, directly shaping retrieval accuracy. A 2026 benchmark found recursive 512-token chunking reached 69% accuracy versus 54% for se…
Elon Musk's xAI, now under the SpaceX umbrella, launched Grok Imagine Video 1.5 in early June 2026, offering 720p video generation with synchronized audio and competitive API pricing. The expansion comes as OpenAI retrea…
Loka built a conversational AI agent using Amazon Nova 2 Sonic that achieves high speech reasoning accuracy on Big Bench Audio while delivering lower costs and faster response times than traditional voice AI pipelines, s…
A developer reports that using AI agents for coding tasks led to a flurry of completed work but left them with less understanding and context, questioning whether the productivity was real or merely performative. The aut…
Figma launched code layers, native animations, AI shader effects, custom AI skills, and prompt-built plugins at its Config 2026 conference. The updates let teams clone repositories directly onto the design canvas, create…
Google's Gemini desktop app adds a voice dictation feature called 'Speak to Window,' allowing users to hold the Fn key and issue voice commands across any open application. The feature, rolling out alongside 'Magic Point…
Mistral released OCR 4 on June 23, a document-processing model that returns structured data with bounding boxes, block types, and confidence scores, targeting enterprise back-office tasks like invoice processing and comp…
Greptile's analysis of OpenClaw, an open-source repository, reveals pull requests surged from two per week to 3,400 per week, while merge rates plummeted from 48% to below 9.3%, with one contributor submitting 106 PRs in…
At Config 2026, Figma expanded its canvas into a full workspace with code, animation, shaders, and AI agents, but the AI capabilities are rented from API providers, squeezing margins. One of those providers is now buildi…
Hugging Face's Inference Providers feature is currently using imperfect billing heuristics, charging a flat $0.03 per request regardless of token count, which does not reflect actual provider pricing. The company plans t…
Kythera Labs is building an AI-native healthcare strategy platform on Databricks that gives health systems access to expert intelligence by transforming 339 billion claims records into a trustworthy data foundation for A…
A developer created a terminal theme for Claude Code based on Yves Klein's International Klein Blue (IKB), but discovered the pigment fails APCA contrast at Lc -12 on dark backgrounds. The fix splits IKB into two slots: …
Users of HuggingChat report that the Step 3.7 Flash Model from StepFun Ai lost the ability to use tools and MCP servers as of this morning, raising concerns about whether the change is permanent. The model is valued for …