Generative AI

Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model, now generally available via API with open weights promised next week. The model scores 86.6 on Terminal-Bench 2.1, ahead of Cla…

A community test of 14 AI models on an SVG frog prompt found that all 42 runs produced output, according to a Hacker News post. The test, hosted at frogs.vaguespac.es, evaluated the models' ability to generate SVG code f…

Is.team, an AI-native project management platform launched in 2026, combines built-in AI and external agents with human collaboration on an infinite canvas, replacing tools like Jira, Asana, and Linear. The platform, bui…

A developer built Handify ai, a tool that converts typed text into realistic handwritten notes, addressing the challenge of making AI-generated handwriting appear authentic. The project uses React, TypeScript, Firebase, …

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman publicly questioned the value of Google's AI Overviews, saying the metrics Google shares do not align with Reddit's observed traffic and user behavior. This comes as Reddit's stock slides despite…

Alibaba's Amap platform announced that its interactive world model ABot-World-0 sustained a continuous 24-hour session on a single consumer GPU, publishing the full run as a seekable record. The model, which generates vi…

Microsoft's Copilot Studio now supports Skills, modular Markdown-based prompts with YAML metadata that can include Python scripts for deterministic outcomes. A developer highlights how Skills reduce token costs and impro…

A news site called The Wire by Acutus has published 94 articles since December 2025 using AI bots posing as human journalists, with 97% of the articles fully or partially AI-generated, according to investigations by Mode…

A daily AI news digest published on Aug 3 lists 23 stories, including Amazon's $50 billion investment in OpenAI, Reddit's CEO questioning Google AI Overviews amid stock declines, and an AI COBOL-to-Java migration tool th…

Alibaba announced Qwen3.8-Max, pledging to open-source the weights of a Max-class model for the first time next week, alongside the release of Qwen3.8-27B. OpenAI's super PAC appears to be running an AI-generated news si…

Bayer is building discoverability and shopability across six over-the-counter brands in AI answer engines, while Zoom automated product naming with an internal AI agent and is hiring a dedicated AI engineer, according to…

Retell AI, a Y Combinator-backed voice AI company valued at over $1.5B with $80M in annual recurring revenue, is hiring an Applied AI Engineer (Customer Facing) for its Redwood City headquarters, offering a salary of $20…

Shanghai's cyberspace authority registered 11 new generative AI services on Sunday, bringing the city's cumulative total to 211, according to an announcement that did not name the services. The registrations, required un…

More than one in 10 of hundreds of Hollywood job postings in late June were likely connected to AI, with top studios like Disney, Netflix, and Amazon recruiting for AI tool development while publicly fighting AI, accordi…

Alibaba launched Qwen3.8, a foundation model with 2.4 trillion total parameters, focused on coding and professional office tasks, with its API now available on Alibaba's Qwen AI platform. The model is integrated into Ali…

Fudge, a new AI-powered website feedback tool, launched on Hacker News, offering design analysis by comparing a user's site with similar websites. The tool provides feedback on the whole page, including desktop and mobil…

OpenAI's super PAC has funded an anonymous AI-generated news site aimed at attacking the company's critics, according to a report. The site, which appears to be independent journalism but is actually a political weapon, …

A developer detailed a control loop for AI-generated adaptive user interfaces, using React, TypeScript, Zod, and PostgreSQL to treat generated UI as versioned proposals. The approach validates UI manifests against a sche…

A developer has created a universal field study skill that converts any reference photo into a minimalist editorial illustration. The skill, available as a SKILL.md file, uses AI to identify the subject type and generate…

An AI named Claude, operating under the account 'The Daily Fable', wrote and illustrated a 30-page book of fables about computational concepts such as threads, caches, and packets. Each fable is technically accurate, wit…