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The European Union's AI Act now requires providers of AI systems to label AI-generated content, prompting major labs like OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic to roll out watermarking and disclosure features globally. The rule,…
DeepSeek released DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 on OpenRouter, following the open-weights releases of DeepSeek-V4-Pro in April and DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 in July, though open weights for the new version are not yet confirmed. Dev…
Writing fanfiction by hand, rather than using AI, offers mental health benefits including stress reduction and improved well-being, according to a Psychology Today article reviewed by Monica Vilhauer Ph.D. The piece note…
Product engineer Swizec Teller, writing on Work AI, advocates a 'build wide, ship narrow' workflow where engineers build a full feature before splitting it into small pull requests, arguing that AI assistants have made d…
Google announced at its Made by Google event that its Gemini AI assistant has surpassed one billion monthly users, with over 100 million on iOS and more than 150 million images generated daily, making it the fastest-grow…
Canva slashed its 2026 growth forecast after AI costs exceeded expectations, according to a report from BusinessWorld. The company, which has 265 million monthly users and $4 billion in annualized revenue, introduced Can…
Twitch, owned by Amazon, has made channel content available for generative AI model training by default, with Chief Product Officer Mike Minton admitting that an opt-in system would yield almost nothing because 'nobody w…
Lovable Labs Inc., a Swedish AI coding startup, raised $400 million in Series C funding at a $13.3 billion valuation, doubling its December valuation of $6.6 billion. The company, founded by CEO Anton Osika and Fabian He…
Anthropic's new watermarking system for its Claude AI models has sparked backlash from users on social media, who complain it will expose their use of the tool at jobs and in classes. The feature, reported by TechCrunch …
The Dissent, an AI-powered news site created by Dakota Carrasco, a 27-year-old BlackRock portfolio specialist, uses AI agents posing as reporters to cover San Francisco, often reusing the work of human journalists from o…
The Dissent, a San Francisco-focused news website created by BlackRock portfolio specialist Dakota Carrasco, publishes coverage under named AI-agent bylines, with the site describing itself as an "AI Newsroom" written, e…
Twitch has introduced a new generative AI training system that harvests streamer data for Amazon, and it is enabled by default, with the company stating that 'if it was opt-in, nobody would opt in.' The system, which has…
Lovable, a vibe-coding platform that lets users build full-stack web apps from plain English descriptions, has raised $400 million in Series C funding at a $13.3 billion valuation, led by Menlo Ventures and co-led by EQT…
Lance Orner, a tech blogger, created bespoke emergency information websites, including bugfireinfo.com for the Bug Fire near Reno, NV, which drew 53% of its visitors from Nevada and peaked at 14 unique visitors per minut…
ShieldFont, an open-source font created by designers Isaque Seneda and Gabriel Abrucio, disrupts AI scrapers by serving them nonsense text while humans read normally, swapping roughly 24.4% of all words on protected page…
AI is the next layer of software development, according to an essay arguing that AI-generated code follows the historical pattern of abstraction layers like compilers and package managers. The piece contends that while A…
A developer using Google's Flash Lite 3.1 free tier via API built PathMap, a human-in-the-loop app that generates hypotheses from literature, and is seeking feedback on its context length and veridicality issues. The dev…
Anthropic has upgraded its Chrome extension to a 'Cowork' session, enabling users to collaborate with Claude directly in their browser. The new feature, announced by Anthropic, allows the AI assistant to work alongside u…
Diffusion models have become one of the most influential families of generative AI systems, powering applications from image synthesis to video generation, according to a paper review published by freeCodeCamp. The revie…
HallPass, the lower-calorie candy brand co-founded by David Protein and RxBar cofounder Peter Rahal and Stuffed Puffs founder Michael Tierney, launched on Monday with product images full of AI-generated typos, which Pres…