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Orion 2, a visual agent with code execution, has been released by VLM Run. It generates and runs computer-vision code on the fly, offering faster, cheaper, and more reliable performance than its predecessor. The system c…
Amazon, Nvidia, and AMD invested $310 million in AI startup Odyssey ML, which develops 3D world models, valuing the company at $1.45 billion. The funding round also included CIA-linked fund IQT and Google chief scientist…
Companies are manipulating AI chatbots to smear competitors by publishing biased reviews and listicles that get cited by AI answer engines. A report by Hard Numbers found that 70% of buyer-style prompts were influenced b…
A Hacker News user asks how much of today's internet content is generated by large language models, noting a trend of AI creating content for other AI systems and questioning when the internet will become a closed loop.
Cursor launched Origin, an AI-native GitHub alternative designed for teams using multiple AI agents to generate code. The platform is Git-compatible but built to handle parallel changes from dozens or hundreds of AI agen…
Eric Worrall published an essay on Watts Up With That claiming he used Claude to produce a simple game in 30 minutes for about $2 in token costs, and argued that multi-agent AI workflows could scale energy use from that …
Z.ai released GLM-5.2, a 753-billion parameter open-weights large language model optimized for long-horizon coding tasks. The model features an IndexShare architecture that reduces per-token compute FLOPs by 2.9 times at…
Consulting firm KPMG withdrew a report on Agentic AI after AI detection company GPTZero found it contained AI-generated fabrications and mangled citations. The report, titled 'Total Experience: Redefining Excellence in t…
Odyssey, a world model AI startup founded by self-driving vehicle pioneers, raised $310 million in Series B funding at a $1.45 billion valuation, led by Natural Capital with participation from Amazon, AMD Ventures, and G…
AI coding agents can now generate UI components on demand, but their ability to maintain code over time remains questionable. As dependencies evolve and state management grows complex, the long-term viability of AI-gener…
Google Calendar is rolling out up to 200 custom event colors, replacing the previous 11-color limit, with a full RGB picker on web and API. Google Voice for enterprise adds Gemini-powered 'Take notes for me' for AI trans…
Two 14-year-old boys in Edmonton, Alberta face criminal charges for using artificial intelligence to create sexual exploitation images of female classmates, marking Canada's second such prosecution in six months. The cha…
Charity Majors stated that in 2025, the economics of code production were upended as generating code became effectively free and instant, making lines of code disposable and regenerable instead of treasured and carefully…
Google is shutting down Gemini CLI and Gemini Code Assist for consumer-level users this week as it shifts focus to its new Antigravity CLI tool. The company says the transition addresses user demand for multi-agent workf…
A third-party listing site, ReleaseBB, reported on June 17, 2026, that Aiarty Image Enhancer 3.12 adds deblurring, denoising, face restoration, and upscaling to 4K, 8K, and 32K resolution. The official Aiarty vendor page…
AI crawlers now match Googlebot in traffic to a website that hit the front page of Hacker News, with both categories accounting for 35% of 240,060 bot visits over 30 days. AmazonBot was the most aggressive AI crawler, wh…
OVHcloud acquired Dragon LLM, a Paris-based startup specializing in generative AI for regulated industries, and launched a dedicated AI lab to build sovereign large language models. The move positions the French cloud pr…
Google announced the $99.99 Google Home Speaker, its first standalone smart speaker since 2020, powered by Gemini AI for natural language and multi-step requests. The device offers free AI features for six months, then r…
Epic Games announced Unreal Engine 6, merging Unreal Engine 5 and the Unreal Editor for Fortnite into a unified product, introducing the Verse programming language and Scene Graph gameplay framework. The engine will inte…
GitHub has made auto model selection generally available in Copilot Chat on github.com and the GitHub mobile app for all Copilot plans. The feature dynamically routes requests to models like Claude Sonnet 4.6, GPT-5.4 mi…