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Tyga accused Doja Cat of making a 'demonic album' after she called him 'a penis' for his AI-generated album 'Starface' in a TMZ interview. Tyga defended the album, saying he used 'AI-assisted things' for production but w…
Canva Pty Ltd has cut its valuation by $10 billion, from $40 billion to $26 billion, in a secondary share sale, reflecting a sobering reassessment of its growth prospects amid intensifying competition from AI-powered des…
Tech-industry layoffs in 2026 have surpassed the total for all of 2025, reaching 126,305 by mid-August, according to the layoff tracker Layoffs.fyi. This exceeds the 122,606 jobs lost across 278 global tech companies in …
Researchers analyzing more than 14,000 ebooks sold on Amazon between 2023 and 2026 found that AI-written books have squeezed human authors out of the market, with the number of books with sales exploding 19-fold while to…
Android Authority's new weekly series highlights CringeBot 3000, an AI tool that generates humorous LinkedIn posts from user topics and eight 'cringe styles,' alongside other AI apps including OpenAI's ChatGPT desktop ap…
Nurb, a Mac app that gives AI assistants real CAD skills, lets users design 3D-printable parts by talking, with a live viewer and direct STL download for printing. The app, available for Intel Macs via GitHub, also offer…
A Hacker News user reports that AI code review tools, specifically Claude's /review and /code-review, now perform more thorough code reviews than human reviewers, leading their small company team to rely largely on autom…
Cursor, the AI code editor developed by Anysphere, has been officially acquired by SpaceXAI, according to a16z. The acquisition positions the combined team to dominate the AI coding market, which a16z estimates is only 1…
Koushik Dasika's post 'Coding Was Never the Hard Part' argues that AI's ability to write code exposes that the real difficulty in software engineering has always been structural decisions, not syntax. The article contend…
Alibaba's Qwen project scheduled the release of Qwen3.8-27B, a dense 27-billion-parameter vision-language model, for August 14, 2026, according to a countdown post from the official Qwen account. The model features a 262…
Forbes Councils member Brendan Hooft argues that AI can replicate every known musical note but cannot create true music, positioning humans as conductors who scale their identity and creativity through AI collaboration. …
Apple will release iOS 27 in September, introducing a context-aware Siri re-tooled for generative AI, alongside features like wallpaper extension, natural language reminders, and AI-organized Safari tabs. The update is c…
Generative AI has not leveled the innovation playing field, according to a study of 47 innovation teams across 12 industries that found output quality varied by a factor of 3.2 on novelty scores and 2.8 on feasibility ra…
Microsoft will merge its consumer and Microsoft 365 Copilot apps into a unified interface starting Aug. 18, part of a broader push toward a Copilot 'super app' that consolidates features like Copilot Cowork and autopilot…
Saber Interactive added an AI disclaimer to the Steam page for its upcoming game after a public dispute between CEO Matthew Karch and former writer Susan Wilson, stating that 'AI can and should help shape gamer experienc…
Anthropic has begun attaching AI watermarks and C2PA metadata to Claude outputs to comply with the EU AI Act, as detailed in the 557th edition of the Food for Agile Thought newsletter, shared with 35,378 peers. The newsl…
A deleted video appears to show generative AI use in pre-production for the upcoming DC movie 'Supergirl', sparking backlash against the film. The footage, which was removed after being posted, suggests the production em…
AgentsKit, a new developer tool, launches with 89 specialist agents, 103 skills, and 181 slash commands in a single npx command, enabling one person to plan, build, test, ship, and market a product using Claude Code. The…
Anthony Ettinger, a developer, announced that his blog posts will be drafted with AI assistance from his own notes and ideas, and published under his name, with disclosure when an LLM did the heavy lifting on the prose.
Joseph McBride, the New York attorney representing accused rapists and sex traffickers Andrew and Tristan Tate, has launched an aggressive, AI-riddled public campaign to win their release from Miami's federal detention c…