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Alibaba (Qwen) released DeepSeek V4.1 Flash on 2026-09-10, a text-and-image model with a 1000k context window and 384k maximum output, according to the provider announcement. No retirement date has been announced for the…
Disney named Karandeep Anand, former CEO of Character.AI, as its first-ever chief technology officer, Variety reported, with new Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro making the hire. Disney had sent Character.AI a cease and desist le…
The Walt Disney Company named Character.AI CEO Karandeep Anand as its first company-wide chief technology officer, effective October 2, reporting to CEO Josh D'Amaro. Anand will oversee Disney's technology infrastructure…
UMG Recordings filed a second copyright lawsuit against Suno, adding 60,202 works to its claim that the AI music company used the songs to train its models. The filing follows Judge Saylor's denial of a motion for leave …
Alaska News, a platform led in part by twin entrepreneurs Lee and Lucas Brown, has published more than 4,500 local news stories generated by an AI reporting agent named "Walter" since earlier this year, according to a pr…
Walt Disney appointed Karandeep Anand, formerly Chief Product Officer at Character.AI, as its first-ever Chief Technology Officer, effective immediately, reporting to CEO Bob Iger at the Burbank headquarters. Disney said…
Z.ai released GLM-5.3-Flash and GLM-5.3-FlashX, the first native multimodal models in the GLM-5 series, with GLM-5.3-FlashX delivering inference speeds of 200 tokens/s. The models accept video, image, text, and file inpu…
Nielsen Norman Group published a study guide arguing that companies should not treat AI as a value proposition in itself, citing former CEO Jakob Nielsen's 2021 warning against overinvesting in technology without a clear…
Shopify has become OpenAI's first e-commerce partner through a ChatGPT Ads integration that lets merchants sync their storefronts and advertise directly inside ChatGPT in the US. The partnership marks OpenAI's first such…
At the 2026 Fast Company Innovation Festival, Spotify senior director of product design Emily Galloway said human judgment is becoming more important as generative AI lowers the cost of invention, citing Spotify's 2023 A…
Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group filed a new 45-page lawsuit against Suno in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, alleging the AI music-generation company's new label-backed "v6" m…
Google released Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking in September 2026, a model that narrates its reasoning in real time via live audio, ranking first on the Artificial Analysis Speech-to-Speech Quality Index at 82.6, scori…
Google announced the preview of a native BM25 index in AlloyDB and Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL 17+, built on the open-source pg_textsearch extension created by TigerData, eliminating the need for a separate full-text search…
Salesforce unveiled AIforce, a "live interface layer" connecting its CRM data, workflows, and governance frameworks to external AI systems, at its Dreamforce conference in San Francisco on September 15, with CEO Marc Ben…
A developer published an explainer arguing that large language models are fundamentally next-token probability functions rather than systems that know facts or reason before answering. The piece traces hallucination, cha…
Prism ML Inc. announced Thursday the launch of Bonsai 2 27B, a ternary-quantized multimodal model built on Qwen3.8 27B that compresses the model from roughly 56 gigabytes at 16-bit to about 5.9 gigabytes while retaining …
Disney named Karandeep Anand, former CEO of generative AI chatbot company Character.AI, as its first chief technology officer, effective Oct. 2, reporting directly to CEO Josh D'Amaro. Disney said a number of Character.A…
Calibre v9.15, the latest update to the open-source ebook manager, adds an AI-powered "Create Your Own Adventure" writing game that lets users build a fictional world and hand real-time control of it to an AI that respon…
A Shanghai court ordered an unnamed generative AI developer to pay MiHoYo ¥750,000 (about $112,000) after finding the company used generative AI to replicate the voices of 63 Genshin Impact characters and sold the result…
GrassLobster, a personal prototype project, connects Rhino and Grasshopper parametric geometry workflows to an external AI agent of the user's choice, letting users describe a design idea and receive an adjustable Grassh…