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A developer is building GoodVibes, a Chrome extension that uses the Jev API to analyze and filter negative or unwanted content on social media feeds in real time. The tool lets users choose which topics to hide and how f…
Adventure Agent released BannerGen, an MIT-licensed open-source CLI tool that generates AI-powered social media banners for X/Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook using the user's own FAL.ai API key. Banne…
Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen-Audio-3.1, a lineup of five models spanning speech recognition (ASR), text-to-speech (TTS), and real-time interaction, and cut AI audio prices by up to 95 percent. The ASR model improves…
Patreon co-founder, president and CTO Sam Yam announced this week that he is joining OpenAI to lead Creator Product, bringing with him Patreon's now-former Head of Product Drew Rowny and Head of Engineering Shannon Ma. Y…
A developer survey of AI-assisted software development workflows finds that tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, and Gemini Code Assist are moving beyond code generation into debugging, testing, documentati…
Microsoft has filed a patent for technology that would record players' facial expressions, vocalizations and in-game actions, feed that data to a generative AI, and use it to generate new game content such as objectives,…
Botpool launched Botpool Create, an AI-powered website builder that lets small businesses create, publish and manage websites, paired with expert SEO support. The company said the product targets small-business website c…
OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol (Global), a text-and-image model with a 1,050k-token context window and 128k max output, on 2026-09-22 via Amazon, according to the model listing at global.openai.gpt-6-sol. Amazon lists no anno…
The European Union's AI Act Article 50 transparency obligations took effect on 2 August 2026, making clear labeling of deepfakes and certain AI-generated or manipulated text a binding legal requirement rather than a volu…
Roughly 60% of production LLM deployments now use retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and fine-tuning together, according to a Scalacode analysis, because the two techniques solve different problems rather than competin…
Qualcomm unveiled the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 series on 23 September 2026, led by the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6, which Qualcomm calls its first 2nm-class mobile chipset and the first mobile CPU to reach 5 GHz. Qu…
Anthropic's Claude account posted a thread of early explorations built with Claude Opus 5.5, including a short story about a watermelon by @kevin_t_ngo, a recreation of the Apollo 8 Earthrise photograph using image cues …
A developer released Sniffslop, a free browser extension for Chrome and Firefox that classifies hovered text blocks of 25 or more words using the Jev API from TypeSafe, defaulting to a single score question asking "How l…
AT&T plans to keep cutting jobs as it automates internal processes with AI and retires its legacy copper landline network, after shedding 8,000 employees last year and about 2,100 in the first half of 2026, chief technol…
OpenAI introduced GPT-6 in two tiers, Sol for maximum capability and Luna as a cheaper, lighter variant, letting engineers route requests by cost and quality per call instead of paying frontier rates on every request. Op…
InclusionAI released Ming Image 0.1 Design, a text-to-image model built for graphic-design output with an emphasis on legible text rendering inside generated images. The model generates from a prompt only, does not accep…
Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen-Audio-3.1-TTS, a production-oriented speech synthesis system that ranks first on the independent Artificial Analysis Text-to-Speech Leaderboard. The model pairs a 12.5 Hz low-frame-rate …
Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5.5 worldwide on September 22, 2026, the first model in its new Claude 5.5 family, which the company says performs at the level of Claude Fable 5.1 for most tasks while costing 40% less to …
Descript released its September 17, 2026 update, adding AI-generated background music and sound effects that place custom tracks on the timeline at any requested length, plus a rebuilt captioning system with 18 presets a…
Meta's Muse AI agent has overtaken ChatGPT as the top free AI app on the App Store charts, according to Business Insider, validating CEO Mark Zuckerberg's April earnings-call strategy of building an agent polished enough…