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President Donald Trump posted three AI-generated images on Truth Social on Saturday evening depicting the planned White House ballroom rooftop as a 'DronePort' covered with military drones, armed soldiers, and refueling …
Asmi, an iOS AI voice assistant that places real outbound phone calls to book, cancel, and coordinate personal chores, reached number two Product of the Day on Product Hunt on June 11, 2026, with around 458 upvotes. Buil…
V2Fun, a browser-based AI platform developed by Zac Zuo, Tammy, and Yifu Wang, turns text, images, or video into rigged, textured 3D characters with automatic skeletons and AI motion capture, reaching number one Product …
PodcastorAI, an AI podcast studio that converts documents, PDFs, URLs, notes, or audio into studio-quality audio and video podcasts hosted by customizable AI avatars, launched on Product Hunt on July 23, 2026, reaching n…
Scientists at Stanford University and the Arc Institute used the AI models Evo 1 and Evo 2 to design 16 new bacteriophages capable of infecting and killing E. coli bacteria, marking the first time AI has created function…
Bluefish AI, a generative engine optimization platform founded in 2024, has raised roughly $68M to help Fortune 500 brands monitor and optimize their visibility in AI assistants like ChatGPT, Google AI, Claude, and Perpl…
Codeberg e.V., a German nonprofit open-source hosting platform, voted to ban projects related to cryptocurrency and those heavily tied to large language models (LLMs), including projects created or maintained by LLM agen…
A developer who launched a web app called Dark Hours using Claude has shut it down and redirected its domain to DarkHours.app after discovering his project closely resembled the open source app, even reproducing a bug it…
The NEXUS AI App Builder, developed by the NEXUS AI Team, is an agentic full-stack workspace that goes beyond simple code generation, featuring an agentic edit loop, dual preview modes, visual iteration, and MCP handoff …
A developer is building a Pyxel-based GUI harness with mini-swe-agent, which allows AI to generate code and see it rendered on screen, with live sprite editing as a key feature. The project is praised for its retro aesth…
The White House's official X account posted an AI-generated remix of the Rick and Morty title sequence featuring President Trump and Vice President JD Vance, using the show's original audio and an inconsistent approximat…
John F. Kennedy's iconic speeches, including his 1961 inaugural address and 1962 moon speech at Rice University, exhibit rhetorical techniques—symmetry, parallelism, antithesis, repetition, and reversal—that modern AI sy…
A man asked seven AI chatbots—ChatGPT, Grok, Gemini, Doubao, DeepSeek, Qianwen, and Tencent Yuanbao—for anniversary ideas on a 500 RMB ($70) budget, and each suggested unique plans ranging from a personalized webpage to …
Britain's employment courts saw a 39 percent increase in claims in the year through March 2026, many written with ChatGPT or Grok, causing the backlog to jump 55 percent to 64,000 unresolved cases, according to The Decod…
Google DeepMind retrofitted Gemma 4 into a text diffusion model, DiffusionGemma, using less than 10 percent of the original training budget, and it generates 256 tokens in parallel at about 1,500 tokens per second. Quali…
In a TechCrunch podcast, historian Jill Lepore argued that Silicon Valley leaders are poor readers of science fiction, leading them to mistakenly frame AI and platforms as replacements for democratic governance, citing e…
KinetixSEO, a new SEO and AI-citation tool, launched with a free snapshot and paid analyses starting at €29, offering page-specific fixes and a re-scan to verify each fix went live. The tool uses 39 specialized agents to…
1min.AI's Advanced Business Plan lifetime subscription is available for $69.97 (regularly $540) through Aug. 9, offering access to ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Mistral, and other AI tools in one browser-based platform. The d…
Netflix has come under fire for a billboard featuring an AI-generated image of a man, prompting calls to remove it. The billboard, part of a promotional campaign, sparked criticism from viewers who found the AI-generated…
BMW's controversial Spider-Man advertisement featuring an AI-generated image of the superhero could be more damaging to the brand than Jaguar's recent rebrand, according to Creative Bloq. The ad, which was released on so…