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TwelveLabs announced on July 21st, 2026, that its first video-intelligence AI agent, Jockey, is now available in a research-preview program, enabling users to search entire video libraries via Anthropic's Claude with nat…
Meituan's LongCat team released version 1.5 of its open-source talking-avatar generator LongCat-Video-Avatar, which replaces the Wav2Vec2 audio encoder with Whisper-Large-v3 and uses DMD2-based step distillation to cut i…
A developer created Faceblind, an in-browser video face blurring tool that uses MediaPipe pose detection as a fallback for face detection, hosted as a static GitHub page. The tool supports manual editing and provides a d…
Haithem Turki, a Ph.D. graduate in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University, focuses his research on reconstructing, simulating, and generating dynamic 3D worlds, spanning scalable neural scene reconstruction, re…
Netflix paid $587 million in cash to acquire InterPositive, the AI filmmaking startup co-founded by Ben Affleck, according to the streamer's Q2 2026 Form 10-Q filed July 17. The 16-person team was absorbed, and Affleck j…
A developer built an MCP server for Claude that enforces hydration checks via webcam, using YOLOv8 nano to detect a cup or bottle every 30 minutes. If the state is 'locked,' Claude refuses to help with coding. The system…
The Department of Energy's Genesis Mission is using Meta's SAM 3 and DINOv3 vision models to turn raw X-ray scans into labeled 3D images in about 15 minutes, according to a July 21st Meta blog post. Berkeley Lab scientis…
Fei-Fei Li announced on July 21st, 2026, that robotics simulation startup SceniX is joining World Labs, an organization focused on accelerating spatial-intelligence research. SceniX, founded by Yunzhu Li, Changxi Zheng, …
The US Marine Corps has contracted Allen Control Systems (ACS) to integrate its Bullfrog autonomous weapon system onto the L-MADIS counter-drone platform, using existing machine guns like the M240 to shoot down drones at…
Dubai International Airport (DXB) has expanded its AI-powered border control system, which uses biometric cameras and flight data to screen passengers in six to 14 seconds, to arrivals after launching for business class …
Cian trained a neural network on a Raspberry Pi to read his gas meter and automatically notify his gas company, eliminating the need for manual readings. The system uses a camera and computer vision to discern digits on …
Two USC Viterbi School of Engineering and USC Stevens School of Computing and AI graduate students, Karan Owalekar and Yiyang Ling, have developed IMPACT (Intelligent Motion Planning with Acceptable Contact Trajectories …
Roughly 90,000 Flock Falcon cameras have been quietly installed across the US, tracking vehicles using AI-powered license plate recognition and machine learning, often without public discussion or consent. Flock Safety s…
Neverclick, a desktop application using local computer vision for keyboard-driven mouse control, has been released to help users with RSI. The app detects clickable UI elements on screen without relying on accessibility …
Nvidia at SIGGRAPH in Los Angeles detailed DLSS 5, its AI-powered graphics tool, promising to preserve 'artistic intent' after backlash at GTC earlier this year. The company demonstrated three model options and per-objec…
A new taxonomy for Physical AI, grounded in control theory, categorizes methods into perception, model, control, and optimize. The framework, proposed in a technical analysis, addresses key challenges such as physics con…
The Rancho Cucamonga Fire District on Monday launched FIREBird, an AI-assisted system that detects small brush fires 100 yards away and delivers images, location, and weather data to dispatchers in three seconds. Fire Ch…
Adobe's Project Indigo camera app version 1.1 adds generative AI tools, including a large language model that critiques composition, lighting, and color, and can restyle or remove objects. The AI Playground features butt…
Activist group Everyone Hates Elon altered a London bus stop ad for Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses featuring Kylie Jenner, adding a lenticular overlay that turns her face into a bug-eyed monster when viewed from a specific…
Kimi K3 now natively supports vision understanding, enabling coding agents to analyze UI screenshots and suggest changes. This shifts frontend workflows, requiring developers to handle image uploads for agents and ensure…