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Inner Logic, rebranded from Semaphor, announced an $11.5 million seed round co-led by General Catalyst and Bison Ventures to build autonomy-enabling infrastructure for medical-device manufacturers. The company, founded b…
At least 53 municipalities have canceled contracts with surveillance company Flock Safety over concerns about federal access to data from its AI-integrated automatic license plate readers, according to data from DeFlock.…
Roboflow released a computer vision workflow that automates hog ring inspection in automotive seat assembly, using RF-DETR to detect and count rings, a custom Python block to compare counts, and Gemini 2.5 Pro to flag de…
Santa Monica is using AI-enhanced cameras mounted on city parking enforcement vehicles to catch drivers illegally parked in bike lanes, issuing a $93 fine per violation. The Automated Bike Lane Enforcement Program, power…
Google released Gemini 3.6 Flash on July 21, 2026, alongside Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, calling it a "workhorse model" that is faster, cheaper, and uses about 17% fewer output tokens than Gemini 3.5 Flash. In Roboflow's priv…
A developer built HairstylesPro, a tool that lets users preview over 600 real hairstyles on their own photos, after struggling to find a satisfying solution for choosing a new haircut. The site aims to help people make m…
Samsung let media touch its AI smart glasses, designed with Warby Parker, Gentle Monster, and Google, at its Galaxy Unpacked event in London, but did not allow anyone to wear them. James Choi, Head of XR R&D Team EVP at …
Samsung's new My FanCam feature on the Galaxy Z Fold 8 and Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra lets users reframe a video around a chosen subject after recording, using Galaxy AI to automatically detect people and crop footage into mu…
Samsung revealed new frame designs and battery life details for its upcoming smart glasses with Google, which are expected this fall. The glasses, made with Warby Parker and Gentle Monster, use Qualcomm Snapdragon AR1 Ge…
Roboflow released a tutorial on automating flange quality inspection using computer vision, training an RF-DETR model on a labeled flange defect dataset to detect cracks, scratches, dents, and pinholes, then deploying it…
Hugging Face's top AI papers on July 22, 2026, highlight trends in agentic systems, world modeling, multimodal understanding, video generation, and tooling. Notable papers include TimeLens2 for video temporal grounding u…
An experimental typeface called 'Ghost Font' exploits differences in how humans and AI perceive visual information to prevent AI from reading text, but the technique may become less effective as AI improves, according to…
Fire and Rescue NSW used an AI-equipped drone to locate two lost hikers within five hours of a 7pm report on June 23, 2026, in Kosciuszko National Park, Australia. The drone's AI software identified the pair with a 35% p…
A developer has released Hypr Realm, an experimental fork of the Hyprland Wayland compositor that enables AI agents to operate in parallel, visible nested desktops without interfering with the human user's host desktop. …
Evan Budz, a 16-year-old from Canada, won a $50,000 scholarship at the 2026 Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair for building an autonomous AI-powered robot turtle that detects microplastics in water. The…
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt's secretive drone operation has deployed AI-powered attack drones with over 70% autonomous hit rates in Ukraine, according to a New York Times investigation. The drones use commercial compo…
Apple's iPhone 18 Pro Max, expected to launch in September 2026, will feature a 48-megapixel main camera with mechanical variable aperture, a 2-nanometer A20 Pro chip from TSMC, 16 GB of RAM, and a nearly 10% larger batt…
Sony Semiconductor Solutions and Mitsubishi Electric will launch a joint venture, Advanced Vision Solutions Co., Ltd., in October 2026 to embed AI processing directly into image sensors for factory automation, combining …
NVIDIA has launched a synthetic video detector, an AI-powered micro-service that identifies AI-generated videos. The service allows users to upload video files for analysis, with data retained only for the duration of th…
A new training-free framework called Surprise Forcing improves long-video generation by dynamically allocating resources to key visual evidence and skipping unnecessary denoising steps. Developed by researchers and publi…