Generative AI

Republican California gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton posted an AI-generated video on X depicting alleged migrant child abuse camps under former Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, based on public re…

A developer has released CaLLMar, a text-based adventure game that runs entirely within a single prompt for large language model (LLM) chatbots, featuring a medieval fantasy world with five maps, character creation, and …

ByteDance released Seedance 2.5, an AI video model that generates 30 seconds of finished audio and video in a single pass from up to 30 reference images, 10 video clips, and 10 audio clips, holding characters and voices …

Katy Independent School District (Katy ISD) will bar kindergarten through sixth-grade students from directly using generative AI chat tools starting in the 2026-27 school year, with limited access beginning in seventh gr…

A Jiji Press survey found that 24.9% of people in Japan believe advanced AI will replace their friends and family in the future, while 65.1% disagreed. The survey, conducted on 2,000 people aged 18 or older from June 12 …

ByteDance's Seed team shipped Seedance 2.5 on July 31, generating 30 seconds of video with synchronized audio in a single pass, double the length of Seedance 2.0 and triple that of Google's current models, but the API re…

ChatPlayground AI Unlimited, a platform that consolidates 20+ leading AI models including GPT-4o, Claude Sonnet, Gemini, DeepSeek, Llama, and Perplexity into one dashboard, is available for a one-time payment of $79 (reg…

Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 generates complete 3D games from single prompts, including a first-person shooter, a kart racer, and a Minecraft clone, all without external assets, producing geometry, textures, physics, and so…

Adima AI has launched Adima AI Image Upscaler Pro, a Windows application that uses AI to upscale images up to 16K resolution and 16× magnification, with offline processing and support for batch upscaling. The tool offers…

OpenAI released GPT-5.6, focusing on cost efficiency rather than raw capability, while DeepMind published Gemini Robotics 2 for whole-body coordination in unstructured environments. GitHub shipped stacked pull requests i…

Zugo, a tool that turns a sentence into a running app, has improved its build verification by replacing a regex check for a closing HTML tag with an in-frame error listener. The new system injects a script into the gener…

Snap Inc. has stopped recommending wholly AI-generated videos on its Spotlight feature as of this month, citing a flood of 'low-quality, repetitive, AI-generated content' and aiming to keep the platform focused on 'authe…

A developer building PetSignal, a browser-based AI that reads dog and cat body language, shared insights from 28 days of Search Console data, revealing that one symptom page carries 54% of all clicks and that rewriting t…

AMD's MI355X GPU achieved 48 tokens/sec per dollar running the 2.8T-parameter Kimi K3 model, outperforming Nvidia's B300 (33 tokens/sec) and B200 (7 tokens/sec), according to benchmarks from Wafer. The MI355X's 288GB of …

A software engineer argues that big tech companies, including Meta, are misusing AI by creating internal token-usage leaderboards that incentivize wasteful AI interactions, and that the industry must shift from human-rea…

A developer built AIAIWWW, an AI-powered name generator that helps users find creative names for products, projects, characters, and more. The tool uses large language models to understand context and generate names that…

Andrej Karpathy, a prominent AI researcher and former Tesla AI director, reported that Anthropic's Opus 5 model spent about two hours generating 5,500 lines of JavaScript code to procedurally render a 3D version of the f…

AI Marketing, a new feature available now, automatically creates, schedules, and publishes a weekly batch of seven SEO-optimized articles per week, one per day, with options for approval-based or automatic publishing, an…

Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 scored 51 on Artificial Analysis's Intelligence Index, tying with GPT-5.4, GPT-5.6 Luna, and GLM-5.2, and ranked third on SciCode, contradicting a Futurism article that claimed Meta has 'almost noth…

Pixel Chef AI, an interactive AI cooking companion, was created by developer Viva Yang for the DEV Frontend Challenge. The project uses a client-side AI decision engine to analyze flavors and nutrition, provide real-time…