AI Tools news and analysis on Web Pulse: 13718 curated articles tracking the latest AI Tools developments, tools, and research, updated continuously from vetted sources.
Westpac Banking Corp. is intensifying efforts to monitor artificial intelligence costs, tracking AI tokens across the firm and routing simpler tasks to cheaper models, according to chief AI officer Dan Jermyn. The Austra…
Amotions launched an AI Zoom app that provides real-time guidance during sales calls, helping users ask better questions, handle objections, and stay aligned with their sales playbook. The app is visible only to the user…
Anthropic published two official patterns to run its most powerful model, Claude Fable 5, at half the price by using cheaper models for routine work and reserving Fable for judgment calls. The advisor pattern scored 92% …
Google Ads expanded its Search campaigns for Travel beta to Things to Do and Events on July 8, 2026, allowing advertisers selling attractions, tours, and event tickets to access the campaign type through an open beta. Th…
Elon Musk announced on July 8 that xAI's chatbot Grok will integrate the Imagine tool for autonomous image and video generation, enabling the AI to create visual content in agentic mode without explicit user commands. Th…
XAI's Grok 4.5, OpenAI's GPT-5.5, and Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 and Fable 5 were benchmarked on one-shot app generation across three interactive tasks. Claude models won the Rubik's Cube round, GPT-5.5 won the gravity …
OpenAI introduced GPT-Live, a new voice mode in the ChatGPT iPhone app that delegates complex tasks to GPT-5.5 while maintaining conversation flow. The model replaces an older GPT-4o era voice mode and includes improveme…
A developer created a tool to verify Canadian contractor licenses across provincial registries, offering a free lookup site and an API for bulk data access. The tool scrapes Quebec's RBQ and Ontario's HCRA registries, pr…
Dating apps like Known are using AI to match singles, but users like Marie Lansley remain skeptical about AI's ability to capture human connection. The technology aims to improve efficiency in a declining market, but con…
Vibe Arcade built every game in its collection using 'vibe coding,' a term coined by OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy that describes generating software by describing desired features in plain language to an AI model. T…
A developer tested Fable 5 and Opus 4.8 by having each build a Minecraft-style voxel game from scratch, finding that both produced working code but Fable 5 required significantly less user guidance and performed more aut…
Swedish AI startup Lovable is in talks to raise $300 million at a valuation between $13 billion and $13.2 billion, more than doubling its December valuation. The company, which lets users build apps by typing plain Engli…
A writer shares two simple AI prompts that use calendar, messages, and notes to create a daily briefing and end-of-day journal, enabling a continuous context loop without complex systems.
CISA added an authorization-bypass vulnerability in Langflow, a visual framework for building AI-agent workflows, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on July 7, 2026, giving federal agencies until July 10, 202…
A developer ran 70 MCP servers in a sandboxed environment using Docker and strace to log runtime behavior, finding that 67 were clean at startup, 3 made outbound HTTPS connections consistent with their functions, and 1 r…
Swedish vibe-coding startup Lovable is in talks to raise $300 million at a $13.2 billion valuation, doubling its December valuation, with Menlo Ventures expected to lead the round. The company, which hit $500 million in …
A developer used the Fable AI tool to generate a blog written entirely by a large language model, including text, code, and SVG graphics, as an experiment in artificial creativity. The project was created in response to …
Google released a white paper comparing 'Vibe Coding' and 'Agentic Engineering' approaches to the software development lifecycle, sparking discussion on Hacker News.
A new free tool lets businesses check how they appear in AI search results by simulating realistic customer queries and identifying visibility gaps.
Topaz Labs has discontinued its legacy Topaz Video AI at version 7.1.5, shifting to a subscription-only Topaz Video app that continues to receive model updates. The transition raises concerns for editors and ML practitio…