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A new social media management tool launched on Product Hunt offering 50% off its Starter, Creator, and Pro plans for life to the first 100 customers, with standard pricing at $19/mo, $29/mo, and $49/mo respectively after…
UC Irvine's School of Education is launching the National Center for Writing Research to Improve Teaching Effectiveness with Generative AI, known as the WRITE AI Center, backed by a $10 million federal grant from the U.S…
Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen-Image-2.1, a 7B-parameter open-weight image generation and editing model that is now natively supported in ComfyUI, with weights published on Hugging Face. The model runs on an optimized…
OpenAI is expected to enter the personal AI agent market soon after hiring the creator of OpenClaw to "drive the next generation of personal agents," as a consumer-agent race erupts among startups and tech giants. Instin…
Runway is developing technology to stream AI-generated video live as users prompt it, rather than making them wait for finished clips, building on its GWM-1 world model that generates video frame by frame. Runway sees ap…
Microsoft, Amazon, and Bengaluru- and Hyderabad-based startups including Gushwork, Loop AI, Sitetracker, and Neuron7 posted fresh generative AI job openings updated between September 18 and 20, 2026, with Microsoft's Ben…
The bestprompt.art editorial team published a collection of 25 prompt templates for September 2026, combining eight templates adapted from Anthropic's public Claude Code prompt library with 17 written in-house. The edito…
GPU.studio launched a public trolley-problem benchmark that asks its Jev AI system to decide whether to pull the lever based on whatever users place on each side of the tracks, with two SVGs rendered by gpt-oss-120b depi…
Saul Griffith, co-founder of Rewiring Australia, has built an AI assistant called Electric Saul in partnership with Google to advise households on electrification. The tool, trained on the organization's FAQ and event kn…
ManifestGo launched as an AI Chrome extension builder that generates complete Manifest V3 projects — popup, background service worker, content scripts, options page, and icons — from a plain-English description, with liv…
StepFun released Step 5 Preview, a next-generation flagship foundation model built for real-world tasks with a focus on coding and professional knowledge work. The model natively supports text, image, and video input and…
A freelance web developer reports that clients increasingly arrive with AI-generated frontends built in an afternoon and balk at quoted development prices, prompting him to ask four questions about hosting, contact-form …
Google's Logan Kilpatrick said the company should have allocated "an order of magnitude" more resources to coding models sooner, acknowledging on a podcast that Google is now playing catch-up as the industry has become "…
XAI is rolling out a voice mode for Grok Bot across desktop and mobile over the next few days, letting users hold spoken conversations with the AI assistant instead of typing text prompts. The feature runs on xAI's Grok …
SceneRok argues that AI video generation should be split into two layers: stochastic models that invent assets and a deterministic compiler that owns structure. The company's VidScript language and @scenerok/sdk emit a s…
Agentic RAG differs from standard retrieval-augmented generation because the model decides how and when to retrieve context as a tool rather than following a fixed developer-defined pipeline, according to an analysis of …
A developer published a minimal JavaScript implementation of a language model on GitHub, using a Markov-chain approach to predict the next word from a small training string. The roughly 20-line script builds a lookup tab…
A head-to-head comparison finds Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.5 outperforms OpenAI's GPT-5 on coding and agentic benchmarks, scoring 77.2% on SWE-bench Verified versus GPT-5's 74.9%, and 50.0% versus 43.8% on Terminal-Benc…
A developer built AI Coloring Studio, a tool that converts text prompts or approved family photos into printable children's coloring pages using image-generation models. The workflow emphasizes thick clean outlines, larg…
A developer has published a tutorial for building a two-phase, transactional avatar loader that keeps the currently committed 3D avatar visible until a newly generated candidate passes policy validation and runtime quali…