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Poet and former Google product marketer Tucker Bryant has placed a San Francisco billboard advertising ChatTJB, a parody LLM-style chat interface powered entirely by Bryant himself, who manually answers every message and…
DBoard, an open-source admin panel builder created by developer Haimanot25, uses AI to generate admin panels, dashboards, forms, and queries from natural language prompts for existing databases, supporting PostgreSQL, My…
A developer has released a new app that uses generative AI to automatically map dependencies between tasks, helping users plan and parallelize large projects such as moves, renovations, or launches. The tool aims to simp…
Kakao, the operator of KakaoTalk, has upgraded the voice generation technology in its omni AI model Kanana-o, allowing users to control tone, speed, emotions, and accents through natural-language text prompts. The update…
Audiences at this year's Bayreuth Festival booed an AI-assisted staging of a Wagner opera, where an AI model generated set designs and video projections in real time, marking a notable backlash against AI in live perform…
Danish type foundry Playtype and ShieldFont have launched ShieldFont, a typeface designed to protect written content from AI scraping by substituting content words with decoys that are invisible to humans but readable by…
MVNT, a Seoul-based dance AI startup co-founded by CEO Joon Jung and choreographer Choi Youngjun, is seeking $10 million in a pre-Series A round, as reported by Business Insider on August 4. The company aims to build AI …
Kakao detailed improvements to its Kanana-o speech model on August 4, 2026, enabling users to control speaking speed, volume, pitch, emotion, intonation, and dialect via natural-language prompts. In Kakao's Korean Instru…
Misinformation, including AI-generated images and politically motivated disinformation, has spread online following the July earthquake in Kumamoto, Japan, with false claims ranging from the quake being a hoax to attacks…
Developer Antonio Cardenas released generate-nanobanana, a Claude Code skill that integrates Google Gemini's image and video generation models, including Nano Banana 2 Lite, Nano Banana Pro, and Gemini Omni Flash. The to…
Chinese labs are giving away frontier-grade AI models at a fraction of the cost of US rivals, squeezing smaller American AI startups out of the market. DeepSeek's V4-Pro runs a standard coding benchmark for about $1,071 …
Youngjun Choi, a choreographer behind K-pop routines for BTS and Seventeen, co-founded startup MVNT with CEO Joon Jung to build an AI system for programmable dance. MVNT, which raised $200,000 in seed funding from Mashup…
Alibaba-backed 3D AI startup Vast is weighing a Hong Kong IPO, with Bank of America and China International Capital Corp working on the potential share sale, according to Bloomberg. The Beijing-based company behind Tripo…
Researchers introduced Noise-Robust Conditional Flow Matching (NR-CFM), a generative model that learns clean data distributions directly from noisy measurements, achieving competitive performance with Ambient Diffusion i…
Researchers propose LeapTalk, a framework for real-time talking-head generation that achieves high-fidelity video synthesis in a single forward step at up to 200 FPS, addressing the latency-quality trade-off in existing …
Google DeepMind introduced DiffusionGemma, an experimental open-weight language model that uses discrete diffusion to generate text at high speed, achieving roughly 1,500 output tokens per second on a single NVIDIA H100 …
Researchers propose a ControlNet-based diffusion framework for map-to-satellite image synthesis that conditions on OpenStreetMap raster maps and their stationary wavelet transform (SWT) subbands, using two adapters fused…
Researchers introduced Semantic-Aware Kernel Entropy (SAKE), a training-free guidance method for text diffusion models that computes order-2 Rényi entropy over a kernel Gram matrix to balance fidelity and diversity. SAKE…
Researchers introduced DLLM-TTS, a text-to-speech framework using block discrete diffusion over X-Codec2 neural audio codec tokens, achieving a real-time factor of 0.15 with a 0.6B-parameter model trained on 20K hours, a…
Researchers propose DAR, a reference-guided renderer that extends Wan2.2 camera control to a joint camera-plus-geometry interface, enabling pretrained video diffusion models to act as 4D renderers from animated meshes. O…