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A developer built COSMIQ, an AI tutoring platform for K-12 featuring a talking avatar professor, and shared lessons learned from the project. Key insights include the importance of a no-signup demo, managing voice and av…
CuspAI, a Cambridge-based startup founded in 2024, closed a $450 million Series B funding round on July 20, bringing its valuation to $2.6 billion and total funding past $580 million, with backing from Jeff Bezos Expedit…
DeepSeek-V4-Flash, the efficiency tier of DeepSeek's V4 series, costs $0.28 per million output tokens, compared to about $25 for Claude Opus 4.8, and performs within a few points of it on agentic coding benchmarks. The m…
Developer Bhavya4907 has built Kikar, an AI-powered social messaging platform that creates digital versions of users, learning from conversations to chat in their style. The platform uses Next.js, React, TypeScript, Tail…
Popsicle Boat, a hobby project by Jake, is now available in 23 languages besides English, with translations generated by AI in an afternoon. Jake, who speaks English and German, verified the German translation and found …
Google removed its Earth AI tool on July 31, one day after launch, after users generated fake disaster images such as a destroyed Eiffel Tower and a flooded Washington D.C. The company stated it is rolling back the featu…
A Jiji Press survey found that 24.9% of people in Japan believe advanced AI will replace their friends and families, with the proportion rising to 32.5% among respondents aged 18-29. The survey also showed that 30.8% of …
Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling-Small, an open weights Mixture-of-Experts model with 276B total and 12B active parameters, about a quarter the size of its 975B-parameter Inkling model. The model, trained on NVIDIA…
Mirage, an AI-native video platform backed by Index Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, and Andreessen Horowitz, is hiring a Research Engineer for Generative Video in New York City with a salary range of $175k–27…
Mirage, an AI-native video platform backed by Index Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, and Andreessen Horowitz, is hiring a Software Engineer, Backend for its New York City headquarters, offering a salary of $17…
Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 successfully generated an SVG of a frog with a Habsburg jaw, including anatomical annotations such as 'massive protruding mandible' and 'recessed, tucked behind the jaw' for the upper lip, demon…
Fender CEO Andy Cole said AI in music is not new, comparing cover songs and band collaboration to 'analog AI,' and believes AI tools will help novice musicians move beyond covers and write original songs. Cole made the c…
Chatbots operating across the European Union must now tell users they are talking to a machine, and AI-altered images, video, and audio require clear labelling, under new transparency rules that took effect on Sunday. Th…
Developer La Shara Cordero built 33 small apps for Netlify's Hot AR Summer challenge, deploying them via Netlify Agent Runners running Gemini. Her final app was built and deployed from a phone at a restaurant table, but …
A developer who built an AI interior design tool found that generating images is the easy part, while making results feel realistic and addressing user needs is harder. The project, ZyoraAI, revealed that users seek quic…
A new Minnesota law banning nudification apps took effect on Saturday, despite a last-minute legal challenge from xAI, the AI division of Elon Musk's conglomerate and creator of the Grok AI chatbot. The law, which allows…
The Economist argues that as artificial intelligence improves at generating text, human editors must become more skilled at reviewing and refining AI-produced writing to maintain quality and accuracy. The piece emphasize…
Hannes M. (hmans) open-sourced Chatto, a self-hostable team and group chat app, and revealed that he has not written a single line of code since February 2026, relying instead on AI coding agents. He uses a €200/month Op…
President Donald Trump posted approximately 40 times on Truth Social over the weekend, sharing AI-generated images of himself as Elvis Presley, capturing an extraterrestrial, and overseeing Greenland, alongside attacks o…
Eigen Labs' lead research engineer Gajesh Naik said on August 1st that a public network of developers and AI agents made Poolside's Laguna XS 2.1 inference 138.7% faster on Apple Silicon, four days after the MLX.fast cha…