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Tencent opened its Hy3 large language model to global users on August 5, 2026, making it available through WorkBuddy, Miora, and Tencent Cloud TokenHub, with free access until August 31, 2026. Hy3, a Mixture-of-Experts m…
Freshworks Inc. is hiring a Lead Data Scientist in Bengaluru, India, to lead GenAI initiatives for its employee and customer experience products, targeting a conversational servicebot for 1 million+ monthly active users.…
Moonshot AI, the Chinese developer of the Kimi chatbot, has reportedly opened a G-round pre-IPO financing at a $50 billion valuation, with investor interest intensifying after the launch of Kimi K3. A person familiar wit…
As of August 2026, CapCut's Pro tier costs $19.99/month or $179.99/year, double the previous $9.99 price, with AI features on a credit pool, while Meta's free Edits app offers a CapCut alternative for Instagram creators.…
A sample cover letter for a Frontend Developer position highlights 3 years of experience with React, Next.js, and Material-UI/TailwindCSS, claiming a 22% increase in conversion rates and improved Google Lighthouse scores…
A new arXiv preprint (arXiv:2608.02625v1) introduces draft-then-refine decoding for diffusion language models, showing that LLaDA2.1-Flash improves GSM8K-384 accuracy from 0.848 to 0.899 and MBPP-384 from 0.545 to 0.693 …
Researchers propose OPTD (On-Policy Transition Distillation), a method that improves few-step diffusion language models by sampling from the student's own trajectories and using a frozen teacher to adaptively compress st…
Researchers propose Meta-Persona Anchoring with Filtered Temperature Scaling (FTS) to reduce the 'Artificial Hivemind' effect in large language models, cutting average pairwise cosine similarity from approximately 0.85 t…
ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 video generation API, opening August 7, is priced 53% higher per token than 2.0, but a hidden detail in the pricing reveals that 480p output actually renders at a lower resolution (854×480) than …
A new paper by the creators of the SPACE framework, published in ACM Queue, argues that most AI coding metrics are misleading, citing a 2025 Microsoft study of over 450 engineers showing they spend only about 14% of thei…
Global downloads of Korean mobile apps on the Google Play Store reached 1.8 billion in 2025, 2.5 times higher than the 730 million domestic installs, according to a report by Public First cited by Google Korea. India led…
Director Eli Roth admitted on Tuesday that AI was used in 'a very small portion of a few scenes' in his upcoming horror film 'Ice Cream Man,' after previously suggesting the animated sequence was hand-drawn. Roth said, '…
Child sexual deepfakes in Japan more than doubled to 123 cases in the first half of 2026, up from 60 a year earlier and exceeding the 114 logged in all of 2025, the National Police Agency said Monday. Junior high school …
An agency's ad intelligence app, which uses Gemini to extract transcripts and timed moments from video ads, was producing impossible timestamps—one video marked at 3:37 for a 2:22 clip—despite the model correctly reporti…
A new AI tool, the Odyssey AI Portrait Generator, lets users upload a photo and transform it into a Greek mythology character such as Odysseus, Athena, Zeus, or Poseidon. The tool processes portraits in memory, caches re…
WhatsApp, owned by Meta, is developing a feature to label AI-generated media on its channels, as reported by WABetaInfo on Tuesday. The label, which will be irremovable once applied by channel admins, aims to help creato…
A developer using the handle ricky300300 shared on Hacker News an experiment of creating an AI-powered profile of themselves to replace a traditional resume when applying to recruiters, seeking community feedback on the …
A study published in the journal Judgment and Decision Making found that 1,682 adults rated AI-generated short stories as more absorbing and of higher quality than human-written ones, though participants preferred storie…
A 3D AI remake of Pokemon Green's iconic starter scene has been released, drawing criticism from fans who find it unsettling. The project, which uses AI to generate the visuals, has been described as 'forever haunted' by…
Flowise, the open-source low-code platform for building AI applications, announced it is shutting down, with active development ceasing immediately on July 29, 2026, and the GitHub repository moving to public archive sta…