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Smallest.ai has raised $13 million in Series A funding led by Seligman Ventures, with participation from Sierra Ventures and 3one4 Capital, bringing its total funding to over $21 million. The startup also debuted Hydra, …
Google began a gradual rollout on July 28 of Gemini visual-generation and editing tools in Google Docs, enabling eligible users to create and edit images, diagrams, and infographics directly within a document using docum…
Google is rolling out three new Gemini features in Google Docs that allow users to create and edit images, diagrams, and infographics directly within documents, as announced in a Workspace update on Tuesday. The features…
Bruce Schneier argues that writing assignments for students are gym tasks, not work tasks, designed to develop critical thinking skills through the act of writing, thinking, outlining, drafting, editing, and revising. He…
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling-Small on July 30th, an open-weights multimodal model with 276 billion total parameters and 12 billion active per token, designed to deliver much of its larger sibling'…
Google has integrated Gemini Omni into Google Vids, enabling instruction-driven video generation and editing through conversational interactions. The multimodal model allows users to create clips from text and image refe…
Microsoft 365 Copilot has surpassed 30 million paid seats, with net seat adds more than doubling quarter over quarter, signaling a shift from AI adoption to transformation. The company introduced Copilot Cowork, which be…
A developer created Doodlea.day, a website that publishes daily AI-generated step-by-step drawing lessons, after using ChatGPT to generate a cowboy hat drawing tutorial for a birthday card. The site generates all steps i…
Simile, a Stanford-spun-out AI startup, has raised a $100 million Series A funding round led by Index Ventures, with participation from Bain Capital Ventures, Hanabi Capital, and AI luminaries including Andrej Karpathy a…
Researchers at DisneyResearch|Studios and ETH Zurich introduced scheduled inpainting, an inference-based method enabling interactive generative motion editing that unifies motion synthesis and editing by preserving origi…
Lamina Labs, a two-person San Francisco AI-video startup founded by MIT graduates Sudip Rokaya and Kartikesh Mishra, has raised $4.8 million to turn AI answers into narrated whiteboard-style explainer videos. The company…
Wren AI, an open-source generative business intelligence engine, provides a portable context layer that teaches AI agents business logic to prevent hallucinated SQL queries. The framework defines five layers of context a…
Researchers from DisneyResearch|Studios and ETH Zurich have developed Two2Four, a generative framework that automatically converts ordinary human motion into plausible and controllable quadruped animations, using a two-s…
A team of creatives and typography company Seneda & Abrucio have released ShieldFont, an open-source font that tricks AI scrapers into reading poisoned gibberish while displaying normal text to humans. The font uses Open…
Ramanaidu Film School in Hyderabad is embedding artificial intelligence across its entire filmmaking curriculum, from pre-production to post-production, under the leadership of veteran producer Daggubati Suresh Babu. The…
Simile, an AI platform that simulates human behavior for enterprises, raised a $200 million Series B at a $2 billion post-money valuation, led by Greenoaks with participation from Index Ventures, Hanabi, A*, Bain Capital…
OpenAI cut prices on its smaller GPT-5.6 Luna model by 80% and its mid-tier Terra model by 20% on Thursday, intensifying competition as businesses scrutinize AI spending. The ChatGPT maker left its flagship Sol model unc…
A deepfake video of former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, created with artificial intelligence, was projected at the campaign launch of his son, senator Flávio Bolsonaro, on Saturday, potentially violating a court b…
Seedance 2.5, the next version of the Seedance AI video platform, will support up to 50 media inputs in a single creative task, including 44 images, three video clips and three audio files, enabling multimodal workflows …
Friend relaunched its AI companion pendant on July 30 with a built-in speaker and a $249 price, up from $129, The Verge reported. The device now supports spoken conversations, requires an iPhone, and keeps memories for 3…