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Google unveiled a new $99.99 Home speaker with Gemini AI integration, its first standalone smart speaker in six years, aiming to compete with Apple and Amazon. The device features 360-degree audio and conversational AI c…
Google is testing two new features for NotebookLM: Personal Intelligence, which gives the tool memory of past conversations, and AI Editing, which lets users edit notes via chat. The features follow an upgrade to Gemini …
RSGI's second report, based on research from April to June 2026 with 87 respondents across 60 firms and 27 in-house teams, finds that 68% of law firms and in-house teams are deploying Harvey-based AI agents, with power u…
Nitsan Bartov, an ambassador for Krea.ai, argues in an Architizer essay that traditional architectural skills such as art history, color theory, and composition remain essential as AI tools enter design workflows. Bartov…
Annecy's MIFA market is expanding its Cross IP Area and focusing on AI integration amid a global animation financing crisis, with growing delegations from Asia and new partnerships with Japan. Organizers emphasize artist…
Jeff Bezos is backing CuspAI, a two-year-old Cambridge startup that uses AI to design new materials, in a funding round that values the company at $2.6bn. The round, led by Bezos Expeditions and Kleiner Perkins, would qu…
SocialBoy, a new MCP connector from Shape, allows users to plug any data source into Claude and automatically generate on-brand, on-voice social media posts with AI visuals across X, LinkedIn, Instagram, and Threads. The…
Agenthatch launches a tool that compiles SKILL.md files into standalone Python agents, addressing isolation, validation, and scaling issues in multi-skill AI workflows. The deterministic pipeline parses markdown, runs si…
GitHub announced the general availability of its Copilot app for macOS, Windows, and Linux, providing a desktop environment for agent-driven development. The app enables users to start sessions from issues or pull reques…
Google began pre-orders for its all-new Google Home speaker at $100, featuring 360-degree audio and Gemini as the primary digital assistant, with official sales starting June 25. The speaker offers deeper AI integration,…
AI company LTX released LTX Trainer, a framework enabling users to create custom AI video models trained on their own data without extensive coding. The tool, available on GitHub, allows filmmakers and studios to generat…
Dailybot released Deep Work Plan, an open-source methodology that turns any repository into a spec-driven harness for AI coding agents, enabling long-horizon tasks with reduced drift. The tool generates repository-specif…
Pixability launched a Model Context Protocol-enabled agent for YouTube ads, allowing advertisers to integrate its YouTube intelligence and data into their own platforms. The MCP integration helps brands like PMG optimize…
Claude Code and Codex, two coding agents, autonomously improved AI agent applications by performing engineering practices such as clustering failure patterns and running ad-hoc evaluations, without relying on specialized…
OpenAI identified two China-linked influence campaigns that used ChatGPT to generate social media content opposing U.S. data centers and promoting tariff-related narratives, according to its June 2026 threat report. The …
A developer building an AI tattoo idea tool found that the main challenge is not image quality but creating a useful handoff layer. The tool adds a 'copy brief' feature that generates an artist-facing summary, and splits…
Claire Vo breaks down four types of AI agent loops—heartbeat, cron, hook, and goal—and demonstrates live builds of a daily aging-PR reviewer in Claude Code and a weekly skills-identification loop in Codex that spawns sub…
Researchers released IndexCache, a patch for SGLang and vLLM that accelerates sparse attention in DeepSeek-V3.2 and GLM-5 models by reusing index computations across layers, achieving up to 1.82× prefill and 1.48× decode…
One-third of American teens report being victimized by deepfake nude images, and over half admit to creating AI-generated pornography themselves, according to a George Mason University survey. Researchers warn that free,…
Pinterest launched an experimental AI shopping app called 'Ask Pinterest' that uses conversational AI and the company's Taste Graph to provide personalized product recommendations. The standalone app allows Pinterest to …