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The team behind Larry, an AI writing agent for legal experts, built a tool that treats articles like code by using surgical edits instead of full rewrites. The agent uses three tools—read_article, replace_in_field, and w…
China's new rules banning AI companion services for minors take effect July 15, 2026, prohibiting sustained emotional interaction or virtual companions for minors. ByteDance and Alibaba are already disabling their AI age…
Google Voice launched two paid tiers for personal accounts, Starter at $10/month and Standard at $20/month, offering features like call recording, desktop support, and Gemini-powered call summaries. Previously, paid plan…
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced a serverless image editing agent built on the Amazon Bedrock AgentCore harness, enabling users to edit photos via natural language prompts. The agent uses configuration-driven orchestr…
Amazon Web Services introduced an AI-powered AWS Support Companion built on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore that consolidates incident investigation into a single conversational interface. The agent analyzes CloudWatch logs, se…
A developer compares Python and JavaScript for backend automation in 2026, concluding that Python is superior for AI integration, LLM orchestration, and data pipelines, while JavaScript excels in high-throughput, real-ti…
The iF Design 2026 Trend Report identifies five key design trends, emphasizing a shift away from AI-driven uniformity toward human-centered, imperfect, and community-focused design. Brands are increasingly valuing craft,…
AWS Finance teams used Amazon Quick, a generative AI assistant, to automate scenario modeling and weekly business reviews, reducing analysis time from 6 hours to 10 minutes per customer and covering their entire portfoli…
LLMIntel, a new tool for tracking generative AI costs and endpoint fragility, launched on Hacker News. The dashboard monitors model pricing, retirement dates, and cost drift across applications, helping engineering teams…
Anthropic expanded its Claude Cowork agent to web and mobile for Max subscribers, allowing tasks to run across devices and continue in the background. The move signals a push beyond coding into general administrative wor…
The Atlantic reported on July 7, 2026, that China-linked actors are using public AI tools and model ecosystems to push Beijing-friendly narratives abroad. OpenAI's June threat reporting documented accounts likely based i…
Simon Willison built an experimental Web Component called github-code using GPT-5.5 that embeds code from GitHub by fetching raw content and displaying a specified range of lines with line numbers but no syntax highlight…
Prizmi, a proactive AI assistant for everyday life, launched on Hacker News. The assistant acts across devices via text messages, automates tasks like email drafting and reminders, and prioritizes user privacy and contro…
Anthropic is rolling out Claude Cowork to mobile and web, allowing users to start tasks on one device and continue them on another, with background execution and mobile notifications for decisions. The expansion, beginni…
A developer released Signal for LLM, a modulator architecture for large language models, with the theory now complete. The project, hosted on GitHub Pages and Termux, introduces the Thixotropic Generative Recursion (TGR)…
Researchers bypassed the age verification system of a website using AWS Rekognition by leveraging generative video AI models, demonstrating how attackers can exploit these tools to fool KYC processes. The French PVID fra…
BIOSTAR launched the EdgeComp MS-NAT4000, a compact edge AI computing system supporting the NVIDIA Jetson Thor T4000 module for high-performance AI computing, real-time sensor processing, and intelligent automation at th…
A developer's guide to using Claude for code generation, review, refactoring, debugging, and documentation emphasizes prompt engineering principles tailored for development. The guide provides templates for generating co…
Google launched the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform to help IT leaders build, scale, and govern AI agents. The platform addresses challenges like tool fragmentation, data security, and cost management by providing a uni…
Anthropic announced Tuesday that its AI agent Claude Cowork can now run tasks on users' smartphones and web browsers without requiring an active desktop session, enabling scheduled tasks to run overnight. The expansion f…