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A new comparison of 12 PowerPoint alternatives in 2026 finds that while PowerPoint remains the default, AI-powered tools like Gamma, Pitch, and Canva offer faster paths from scattered source material to polished, on-bran…
David Ball, founder of San Francisco-based Genome Computer, launched Genome Intelligence, a $15-per-month conversational interface that lets users explore their personal genome data with general-purpose AI models while k…
AI griefbots, or thanabots, trained on a deceased person's social media and personal data, are moving from science fiction to consumer services, with Microsoft holding a 2020 patent for creating conversational chatbots o…
R&B singer Kenny Lattimore and television judge Faith Jenkins are suing anonymous YouTubers for defamation after at least 35 AI-generated videos falsely claimed infidelity, a secret divorce, and that Lattimore is gay. Th…
The White House posted a generative AI-created parody of Nicole Kidman's AMC Theatres ad, replacing 'magic' with 'MAGA' and featuring scenes of President Donald Trump, amid AMC's record-breaking weekend revenue. The vide…
Nearly 60 content creators moved into Lighthaven, a converted Berkeley hotel, for Plz Don't Kill Us (PDKU), a month-long bootcamp funded partly by the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI) to make AI safety mess…
NVIDIA released Alpamayo 2 Super, an open 34-billion-parameter reasoning vision-language-action model for autonomous vehicle development, combining a 32-billion-parameter Cosmos 3 Super Reasoner with a 2-billion-paramete…
Boing Boing is promoting a lifetime bundle of Luminar Neo, an AI-powered photo editor, now priced at $79.99, down from $332, which includes a landscape editing video course, LUTs, and presets. The bundle aims to help use…
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle criticized Elon Musk's xAI for challenging a Minnesota law that regulates AI-generated non-consensual explicit images, saying technology companies should prioritize safety over commercial i…
A new evaluation paradigm for music generative AI, proposed by Alexander Lerch and presented at the ACM AI Leadership Summit, replaces static benchmarks with a dynamic ecosystem that decouples reference data, feature rep…
Autodesk has introduced a new tool that gives filmmakers 3D control over AI-generated imagery, addressing a key limitation in AI filmmaking. The tool, which integrates with Autodesk's existing software, allows users to m…
Autodesk launched 3D Editor + Canvas within Flow Studio to bring directable 3D control to generative AI filmmaking, addressing the limitation of precise control in AI video creation. The new tools allow creators to build…
A solo developer known as Paulius used Claude AI to recreate the opening of Pokemon LeafGreen in 3D, producing distorted versions of Bulbasaur, Charmander, and Squirtle that went viral on X with over 1.6 million views. T…
LA-based rapper Fenix Flexin denies that his Billboard Hot 100 hit 'Rubberz' is AI-generated after fans and industry figures, including producer Medasin, pointed to anomalies such as a file name referencing AI music soft…
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter open-weight model, proved unexpectedly useful in seven real-world use cases after the author initially ignored it for two weeks, including debugging a memory leak across a …
A developer building an AI social media tool called bleam has outlined its freemium model, offering free scheduling and paid content generation. The tool generates a month of social content from business details and publ…
Bengaluru-based startup Dodo Payments founder Ayush Agarwal clarified that AI was used to enhance photos of the company's new office in Indiranagar after critics accused him of passing off AI-generated images as real. Th…
Israel has paid Brad Parscale, Donald Trump's former 2020 campaign manager, $46.5 million through his digital marketing company Clock Tower X to run a digital influence campaign targeting AI chatbots, according to Drop S…
Arm Holdings is advancing its neural graphics portfolio, including Neural Super Sampling (NSS), Neural Frame Rate Upscaling (NFRU), and Neural Super Sampling and Denoising (NSSD), to enhance mobile gaming visuals while m…
Independent researcher Jahangir Nasimi is seeking an arXiv endorsement for his paper on AI-driven nuclear safety, presented at the IAEA International Conference on Topical Issues in Nuclear Installation Safety (TIC2026) …