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The Korea Times field-tested a Google Gemini-generated one-day historical tour of Seoul, priced at around 200,000 won ($150), to assess whether AI can capture the spirit of local history. The AI itinerary showed impressi…
Google unveiled the Pixel 11 series at its Made by Google event in New York, featuring AI-powered tools such as the Rambler voice keyboard, Magic Capture photos, and multi-step task automation, while deliberately avoidin…
SiliconFlow, an AI inference platform serving more than 200 open language and multimodal models through one OpenAI-compatible API, raised over 2 billion yuan (about $294 million) in a Series B in June 2026, backed by Tri…
Commure, an AI healthcare operations platform, reported over 40 million ambient appointments annually and more than $25 billion in claims processed each year, and raised $70 million in May 2026 at a $7 billion post-money…
Open source libraries are evolving into reference implementations for coding agents, according to an analysis by a software engineer. The shift is driven by the rise of coding agents that can generate code from scratch, …
X's 'Made with AI' label appeared on outgoing White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt's departure post on X on Wednesday, then disappeared by around 8 p.m. Eastern, intensifying the debate over AI watermarking. The …
A DeepSeek user proposed that the company pair its large language model with separate vision- and audio-oriented AI systems to create a multimodal successor, a suggestion the model endorsed but could not relay to its pro…
Ex Pulvis Records founder argues that AI music tools generate waveforms, not compositions, and that the industry's conflation of the two erases the composer's role, citing Michael Jackson's vocal demos for 'Billie Jean' …
PiFlow, a fully local retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) desktop application, has been released as an open-source project on GitHub, enabling users to import local documents, build knowledge bases, and ask natural-lang…
NagaAI launched an AI aggregator platform offering a unified OpenAI-compatible API for chat, image, embeddings, and more, with pricing up to 50% lower than direct provider rates on selected models. The platform includes …
Magnific, the creative AI platform founded by Javier "Javi" Lopez and Emilio Nicolas, will showcase MiniMax H3 at its San Francisco office on Aug. 13, 2026, in an event titled "Magnific Spotlight: MiniMax H3." The live d…
Google Research on August 11 introduced AMIE (Video), a Gemini-based research system for real-time simulated clinical video consultations, reporting expert-level performance in a randomized controlled study. The study, a…
Google announced that its Gemini app has surpassed 1 billion monthly users, with 63% now using voice interaction, according to a blog post on August 11. The company also reported that Gemini Live sees about one in five i…
Investor appetite for vibe-coding startups remains strong, with Swedish AI startup Lovable raising $400 million at a $13.3 billion valuation, while Cursor sold to SpaceX for $60 billion in June and Replit hit a $9 billio…
Daniel Kimber and Ajain Vivek, founders of Brainfish, have launched Ballet in early access for design partners, a tool that turns plain-English workflow descriptions into reviewable, version-controlled integration code f…
Fenix Flexin has admitted to using AI for his hit song "Rubberz," confirming the use of the AI software Treblo after months of avoiding the topic. In an Instagram comment, he stated, "never said I didn't use Al, i said i…
MuseGen reported that the AI-generated song "Chai Ki Tapri" surpassed 500 million combined views and appeared in over 1 million Instagram Reels after going viral on short-form platforms. Created by Nagpur-based UG Beats …
A developer has compiled the classic video game Doom into a transformer neural network, creating a stock Hugging Face checkpoint that renders Doom's E1M1 opening frame with 97% of pixels matching the original. The compil…
Vercel's AI Gateway now offers Google's Gemini 3.7 Flash model at a 50% discount until December 31, 2026. The model improves software engineering and agentic tasks, resolving issues more reliably and generating code from…
A new analysis from Base44 identifies four sources of free AI coding credits in 2026—provider trial balances, student or startup programs, vendor free tiers, and ad-funded grants—and warns that only recurring grants are …