Generative AI

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…

Elon Musk reposted an AI-generated parody video on X depicting him as Austin Powers, with on-screen text declaring him 'the man who bought the UK' and 'It's mine now.' The clip, which runs just over a minute, shows Musk …

Developer atomic14 released 'Open Vibe Coded Elite – Harmless', a playable remake of the classic game Elite, built with Claude and other AI models. The project, hosted at harmless.atomic14.com, invites users to submit is…

California lawmakers are moving to regulate AI-generated political ads as such content floods social media ahead of the 2026 midterms, with U.S. Sen. Adam Schiff and Rep. Ro Khanna reintroducing the AI Ads Act in Congres…

A developer released the source code of their website, jrm-code-public, on GitHub with secrets redacted, to demonstrate the kind of Lisp code generated by an LLM. The code is more complex than a standard static site and …

Marlow, an AI software builder, launched its beta on August 11 with a platform that lets users generate source code in plain language while retaining full ownership and portability, aiming to end the tradeoff between AI …

Steem, a new AI-powered WordPress plugin generator, ships a ZIP file containing clean, secure PHP code with capability checks, nonces, sanitized input, and escaped output by default. Users get 75 free credits to build an…

Deep-Imager launched a one-stop AI image generation platform at deep-imager.com, allowing users to turn text into AI images, optimize existing images, and remove backgrounds, watermarks, text, and emojis. The platform of…

Expedia Group has open-sourced mockql-rs, a Rust CLI that generates GraphQL mock responses from an LLM at request time, marking the third public attempt in six months after Airbnb's @generateMock directive and a GraphQL …

A 22-year-old medical student in India, identified only as Sam, created an AI-generated persona named Emily Hart, a blonde conservative influencer, and used it to attract a MAGA audience, gaining 10,000 followers in a mo…

OiiOii, an AI animation platform founded by NaoNao in July 2025, opened its beta with 100 spots and received over 100,000 signups, with a large share from Japan and Taiwan rather than Mainland China. The platform turns a…

Google launched Gemini 3.7 Flash, priced at $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens, roughly half the cost of its predecessor, with improvements in coding, automation, and agent workflows. The …

Travel brands are redefining the journey by creating personalized, culturally relevant experiences, as discussed on ADWEEK's Adspeak podcast with Sheretha Bell of Atlanta Convention & Visitors Bureau, Eliot Hamlisch of A…

An open-source Python gateway called mm-gateway provides a provider-neutral API for image, video, and music generation, abstracting away SDK quirks from OpenAI, Volcengine, and Mureka. The project, hosted on GitHub under…

A commentator reflects on the four layers of cognitive crutches—language, writing, computers, and generative AI—noting that each layer offloads memory and processing, and that AI introduces probabilistic flexibility that…

Google's Gemini 3.7 Flash model cuts inference costs by half while improving code generation accuracy, with FrontierCode scores rising from 34.4% to 43.6%. Z.ai's GLM 5.2, a 1M-token open-weights model, is now the defaul…