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OpenAI announced on Friday that it surpassed 1 billion active users across its AI interfaces, including ChatGPT, Codex, and ChatGPT Work, less than four years after launching ChatGPT in November 2022. The company also re…
Shin from e-Shikumi-Labo built a Chrome extension that automatically saves Gemini chat logs to a spreadsheet, using Gemini itself to write the code. By instructing the AI to avoid guessing and to request specific HTML el…
An author trained an AI model to generate electronic-music kick-drum samples using only a 6 GB RTX 3060 laptop GPU, demonstrating that redefining the task from 'let AI create music' to 'generate kick-drum sounds that mee…
Anthropic added interactive voice chat to Claude's web application, closing a gap that had been one of the platform's most obvious weaknesses. The new voice mode allows real-time back-and-forth conversation, but it is cu…
Google has integrated its Nano Banana image generation model directly into Google Earth, allowing users to generate AI images from any 3D map view with a text prompt, free of charge. The feature captures the current view…
DeepSeek released DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731, a model that Artificial Analysis ranks ahead of MiniMax M3, a 428B model, and at $0.14 per million input tokens and $0.27 per million output tokens it may be the best value-per-i…
Roboflow published a tutorial on automating powder-coat defect detection using its RF-DETR vision model, which achieved 74.0% mAP@50 on a dataset of 2,775 images, and Gemini 2.5 Pro to generate inspection summaries. The …
Google has canceled its planned AI Studio mobile app for Android and iOS, which had over 800,000 pre-orders, in favor of integrating app creation capabilities directly into the Gemini app on mobile and desktop. The AI St…
A federal judge in San Jose rejected Elon Musk's xAI attempt to publicly identify four plaintiffs suing over sexualized deepfakes allegedly created by its Grok chatbot, ruling that revealing their names could expose them…
Amazon's AI shopping assistant Rufus, which handles over $12 billion in annualized sales, now directs shoppers to buy products from brands outside Amazon's marketplace through its Buy for Me feature, a move that sacrific…
An analysis of Hacker News posts and GitHub repositories by an unnamed developer found that the number of repositories posted daily began rising sharply around October/November 2025, peaked in Q1 2026, and has since leve…
Snapchat, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Substack are implementing measures to combat the spread of AI-generated fake content, commonly referred to as 'AI slop'. The platforms are responding to a surge in low-quality, misleading…
In a recent episode of the Oxide and Friends podcast, Simon Willison discussed the open weight revolution, touching on topics such as DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731, Anthropic's cyber incident, and Golden Gate Claude. Willison a…
Google has begun rolling out a new voice capability for Gemini on macOS, allowing users to create, edit, and summarize content via voice input in any desktop window. The feature, announced by Michael Friedman, group prod…
Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Harvard University introduced Explorative Modeling (XM), a training method that generates K candidate outputs per example and backpropagates through the lowe…
Google AI Studio reported roughly 800,000 pre-registrations for its mobile app, then announced it is pursuing an "entirely different approach" to mobile software building, suggesting a shift away from a dedicated app tow…
Virgin Atlantic's AI Concierge, launched December 9, 2025, uses seven contextual traveler preferences—including family size and weather tolerance—discovered through natural conversation rather than a fixed questionnaire,…
India's mobile app market generated a record $345 million in consumer spending in Q2 2026, up 35% year-over-year, driven by generative AI, streaming, and productivity apps, according to Sensor Tower. OpenAI's ChatGPT and…
Google AI Studio has pivoted to conversation-driven app creation with Gemini, allowing developers to generate full-stack web applications and native Android apps through natural language prompts, with updates announced a…
Google removed a new AI image-editing feature from Google Earth less than 24 hours after launch, following user-generated deepfakes of disasters and other misleading content. The feature, introduced Thursday, allowed Gem…