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Vercel has made its v0 API generally available, giving developers programmatic access to its AI-powered application-building agent. The API supports synchronous, asynchronous, and streaming requests, allows creation from…
Higgsfield's AI-generated film 'Cully Hill Boys' showcases the platform's Cinema Studio suite and Seedance 2.5, but its best elements come from human artists, including a script by Tim Planagan and visual inspiration fro…
Warner Bros.' sci-fi thriller 'The End of Oak Street,' starring Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor, opens in theaters on Friday, August 14, and will not be available on Netflix, with streaming expected on HBO Max, where sub…
Google is expanding its 'Ask YouTube' conversational search experiment to the YouTube mobile app, adding an 'Ask' button to the search bar for signed-in users aged 13 and older. The feature, which debuted on desktop on A…
Anthropic has begun invisibly watermarking text and images generated by its Claude AI chatbot to comply with new EU transparency rules, a change that has sparked outrage among some users who fear it will unfairly stigmat…
Netlify's Agent Runners benchmark of 11 AI models on the same website-building brief found a roughly 200x cost spread, with Claude Opus 5 averaging 519 credits per run (spiking to 1,055) versus DeepSeek V4 Flash at 2.4 c…
New EU watermarking requirements that took effect this month will make it much harder for internet users to hide their use of AI-generated images, videos, and text, potentially upending online engagement. The rules, whic…
Doja Cat called Tyga "a penis" for releasing his AI-assisted album *$TARFACE*, which earned a rare zero-star review from Pitchfork, the lowest score the outlet has given in nearly 20 years. Doja Cat, a Grammy winner, mad…
A developer who was laid off from a large company built an automatic llms.txt generator and later created Schrödinger's Website, a project that lets AI generate a story and HTML page with complete creative freedom. The r…
Sageskills Technology launched FoundGPT, a Shopify app that optimizes stores for AI search engines like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity, featuring a 25-point AI-readiness audit, auto-fix for product descriptions and meta…
Researchers have introduced LiveAnimate, a new system from China that enables real-time full-body deepfake video generation, overcoming the resource-intensive offline limitations of existing systems like Wan2.2-Animate. …
A new essay by an unnamed author at a16z.news argues that AI-generated writing is becoming a 'meta-feature' of language, with the '100% AI' label serving as a modern 'Scarlet Letter' that performs a social function relat…
GitHub has made Google's Gemini 3.7 Flash model available in GitHub Copilot, rolling out gradually to Pro, Pro+, Max, Business, and Enterprise users. The model, billed at provider list pricing under usage-based billing, …
Symantec's Threat Hunter Team reported that the China-based hacker-for-hire group Jewelbug, also known as Earth Alux and REF7707, has been running government espionage and cryptocurrency fraud operations using the same i…
SpaceX (SPCX) shares jumped 9.7% on Wednesday after CEO Elon Musk released the latest Grok AI model and held a companywide meeting reiterating the goal of making humanity multiplanetary. The stock gave back some gains ea…
Twitch, owned by Amazon, faces backlash after users discovered that streams, chats, and other channel content are used by default to train Amazon's generative AI models unless creators manually opt out. Twitch Chief Prod…
DeepSeek has released its V4 Pro model with 1.6 trillion total parameters and 49 billion active per token, now generally available under an MIT license across its web platform, mobile app, and API. The model, which suppo…
A developer has built OptiQra, an open-source website optimization tool that not only identifies issues but also automatically fixes them, using deterministic changes for simple problems and optional AI integration for m…
A hands-on test by YouTuber Luigi Tech found that five AI coding harnesses—Codex, PI Agent, Jcode, OpenCode, and Reasonix—all running DeepSeek V4 with the same prompt produced wildly different results, with runtime feedb…
Writer, the enterprise AI platform used by Accenture, Uber, and Vanguard, launched Palmyra X6 on August 6, 2026, cutting AI agent costs per task by 52% from $0.25 to $0.12, with execution speed improving by 48% and outpu…