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The UK Advertising Standards Authority banned social media ads for five AI apps — tyan.ai, Nexaipic, KH31 DD22, Rusto AI and PictoPop — after finding they promoted sexually explicit content and objectified women, includi…
Google released Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, two new speech-to-speech models that mirror the shape of OpenAI's GPT-Live family. Developer Simon Willison used GPT-6 Astra Extra High to build a br…
Los Angeles Unified School District administrators imposed a moratorium on student use of generative AI for the current school year without board authorization, senior district officials disclosed Wednesday at the first …
Universal Music Group sued DistroKid on September 15, 2026, in the US District Court for the District of Delaware, accusing the independent distributor of "deceptive trade practices and blatant copyright infringement" fo…
StepFun released five StepAudio 3 models on September 15th, giving developers separate APIs for real-time voice interaction, transcription, speech synthesis, general audio generation and music. Artificial Analysis ranks …
A set of mathematical formulas has been published for evaluating how strongly AI models associate brands with industry verticals, using length-normalized association log-likelihood, softmax choice probability, and direct…
A user asked Anthropic's Claude to build an AI video generator running on the user's own hardware, producing a tool that turns one photo and one sentence into a 5 to 15 second video with sound in about one minute. The ge…
The Albanese government is considering giving AI companies default access to Australian creatives' works as it seeks a compromise with US tech giants, according to reporting by The Guardian. The proposals emerged as seni…
Grindr CEO George Arison said at the Fast Company Innovation Festival that the company wants its app to be "AI native," with AI now writing more than 80% of the app's code and a premium tier called Edge expected to launc…
A developer who was attending a full stack programming bootcamp in March 2021 delivered a presentation predicting the generative AI boom roughly 20 months before ChatGPT launched, showcasing the OpenAI beta, the leap fro…
Google released Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, its most advanced live dialogue models, available today in the Gemini API and Google AI Studio at $0.005/min for audio input. Gemini 3.8 Live Extende…
NiubiGEO has released an Apache-2.0 workbench for testing how AI models describe a product, which competitors they mention, and what sources they return, letting developers inspect the answers and execution conditions be…
A three-stage pipeline built on Stable Diffusion 1.5 can generate synthetic leprosy lesion images by transferring texture from general chronic wound photography, according to a paper (arXiv:2609.13226v1). The researchers…
Taste Labs founder Thais Castello Branco launched a Brand API on September 15th that gives generative AI agents a structured way to extract, search and verify visual identity, with the extraction endpoint in beta and sea…
MLflow 3.0 introduces expanded support for LLM-as-a-judge workflows, allowing developers to build both out-of-the-box judges for toxicity and safety and domain-specific custom judges, according to a technical walkthrough…
Government agencies deploying AI for decisions about rights, benefits, and safety must pair the technology with clear rules, human oversight, and enforceable accountability for agencies and vendors, according to a report…
Artist-built app Foxglove, released free on the App Store at version 1.0 (Build 5) and now at 1.1 (Build 7), strips EXIF/GPS metadata, embeds a steganographic ownership watermark, and applies adversarial perturbation to …
Google DeepMind released Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, two new audio models for developers that top the Artificial Analysis speech-to-speech leaderboard. Google priced Gemini 3.8 Live at $1.38 pe…
Co-founders Yvan (ygjb), Monique (inkandops), and Sandhya (notgrrly) launched Oghmere, a bootstrapped writing tool built on Anthropic models whose AI is barred from generating, autocompleting, or rewriting an author's pr…
The first AI Game Sound Design Challenge was held at the GXG 2026 gaming festival in Pangyo, South Korea, in September, organized by game audio company Changjo Workshop with Microsoft and the Korea Mobile Game Associatio…