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AI search is shifting content strategy from retrieval-based SEO to citation-based generative engine optimization (GEO), as large language models like Claude, ChatGPT, and Google AI Overviews prioritize personalized user …
Microsoft's Candy Crush Saga continues to generate $1 billion in annual revenue with over 150 million monthly active users, 14 years after its launch. The game's success underscores the enduring appeal of human-designed …
XAI is developing an Automations feature for Grok that will replace the standalone Tasks system, adding skill selection and model choice controls. The move aims to transform Grok into a configurable productivity platform…
Android already has four of the new iOS 27 features, including Siri AI and generative photo editing, but the author wishes Android would steal two more: deeper ecosystem integration and a feature not specified. The artic…
A user reverse-engineered a FlexiSpot standing desk's proprietary protocol using an ESP32 microcontroller and Claude Code AI, enabling Home Assistant control. The same approach was used to hack a Plaud Note voice recorde…
Cutback launched Selects, an AI tool that automates long-form video editing prep, including sync, organization, and draft editing from a single prompt. The tool reduces prep time by 60% and integrates with Adobe Premiere…
In the ten days following its 1.0 release on April 29, the Zed editor team shipped four stable releases, launched a paid Business plan, and released a new edit-prediction model with 67% fewer output tokens and 28% lower …
New research from Fractl and Search Engine Land reveals that trust in AI search dropped sharply from 82% to 54% in one year, with consumers now checking an average of 2.4 platforms before making purchase decisions. The s…
A developer compared three AI certification programs—Simplilearn, Great Learning, and IIT Kharagpur's Applied AI & ML EPGC—and chose IIT Kharagpur's 8-month live program for its comprehensive curriculum covering ML, Deep…
A ZDNET writer used ChatGPT to build a Python script that removes yellow backgrounds from scanned PDF sheet music, after finding manual editing too fiddly and AI-based PDF conversion non-deterministic. The script preserv…
Radical Numerics, a startup founded by researchers who built AI models capable of generating DNA, emerged from stealth with a $50 million seed round led by Emergence Capital. The company develops multimodal AI that reads…
AWS announced the preview of AWS FinOps Agent, a new tool for cost management and optimization, at the AWS Summit in New York City. The agent can answer cost questions, surface optimization opportunities, investigate ano…
A developer released Slipmate, an open-source DJ instrument that runs two real-time AI music models locally on Apple Silicon Macs, controlled by text prompts and mixed like vinyl with support for Pioneer DDJ-FLX4 hardwar…
A developer argues that AI has not made human developers obsolete, as complex problem-solving and system architecture understanding remain essential. The developer contends that even with AI assistance, human cognitive e…
Go Micro founder Asim Aslam introduces event-driven agents that trigger on system events rather than human prompts, using workflows to convert events into prompts for autonomous agents. The approach enables scoped, unatt…
The rise of AI writing offers an opportunity to examine literature, but identifying AI-generated text through surface-level quirks like em dashes is unreliable. AI's style reveals it has no fixed self, as large language …
In September 2025, an AI-generated R&B project called Xania Monet, created by poet Telisha Jones using Suno, reached number one on Billboard's R&B Digital Song Sales chart and secured a $3 million record deal. The event …
The open web as a decentralized space for search, browsing, and publishing is being replaced by centralized AI chat interfaces, according to a 48-year-old technology veteran who has witnessed computing evolve from floppy…
AI-generated content, or 'slop,' is shifting cultural norms by exploiting human preferences for symmetry, legibility, and visceral appeal, a process the author calls 'hyperslopification.' This hyperpalatable, low-cost co…
PostgreSQL has evolved into a versatile data platform that can replace multiple specialized databases, handling relational storage, full-text search, vector AI workloads, geospatial queries, and event-driven architecture…