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Higgsfield AI debuted a 95-minute feature film, *Hell Grind*, at the Marché du Film in Cannes in May, produced using ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 model and the company's platform. A 15-person team completed the film in 14 da…
A developer has detailed the mechanics of an AI-Native engineering pipeline called the ADLC (AI Development Lifecycle), which replaces human-driven manual tasks with automated, closed-loop agent networks while preserving…
A new analysis of the animation industry reveals that generative AI is reshaping the labor market for 2D and 3D animation in fundamentally different ways, rather than killing the art form itself. Research commissioned by…
Apple is set to reintroduce a new version of Siri at WWDC on Monday, this time built on top of Google's Gemini AI after the company's initial Apple Intelligence rollout in 2024 failed to deliver promised features, leadin…
Meta confirmed that hackers exploited a vulnerability in its AI chatbot to hijack at least 20,225 Instagram accounts, including 30 in Maine, between April 17 and this week. The attackers tricked the chatbot into sending …
A $500,000 sci-fi thriller starring entirely AI-generated actors, "Hell Grind," premiered in New York this week, marking the highest-profile film made with fully synthetic visuals. The 95-minute movie, produced by startu…
Nvidia and FPT Corporation released a dataset of 900,000 synthetic personas on June 5 to help AI models understand Vietnam’s language, culture, and demographics. The Nemotron-Personas-Vietnam dataset, available on Huggin…
ByteDance's AI-native IDE Trae has consistently topped the 2026 Juejin AI coding tools list, driven by its ability to generate complete CRUD modules from Chinese-language feature descriptions in about ten seconds. A deve…
Facebook Marketplace sellers are increasingly using AI-generated images of scantily clad women to attract attention to listings for cars, trucks, and other items. Rogelio Llamas of Southern California added an AI-generat…
Big Tech employees report using AI tools to compress hours of work into minutes for tasks like document drafting, meeting summarization, and code review. However, some workers say the time saved is redirected to new proj…
A developer built a multi-agent video editor that uses speech-to-text and AI agents to shorten videos by removing unnecessary content, but the first iteration produced poor results. The project revealed three key challen…
SpaceX and OpenAI are pursuing public listings at valuations approaching $1 trillion despite projecting massive losses, with OpenAI alone expecting $14 billion in losses for 2026 and profitability not anticipated until 2…
Chinese labs previously involved in selling fentanyl precursors have shifted to manufacturing and selling peptides, a gray market now valued at over $100 million annually and growing, according to a new Chainalysis analy…
Apple unveiled its artificial intelligence strategy at WWDC 2026 on June 8, featuring a redesigned Siri that will debut as a standalone chatbot app with enhanced context awareness and third-party AI model support. The fi…
ElevenLabs hosted a New York City pop-up where every experience was run by a voice agent, including an AI shopkeeper that negotiated prices with visitors. Business Insider reported that the shopkeeper refused a $15 offer…
Google has agreed to pay SpaceX $920 million per month starting October 2026 through June 2029 for access to xAI's data centers, according to a SpaceX SEC filing. The deal, valued at $30 billion, grants Google 110,000 NV…
A software engineer from Leon Business School outlines five principles for long-term career survival, arguing that adaptability, preparation, and resourcefulness matter more than any specific framework or tool. The princ…
Tech titans including Google CEO Sundar Pichai and entrepreneur Marc Andreessen have hailed artificial intelligence as humanity's most revolutionary technology, yet many users are deploying it to generate pornography, ca…
ElevenLabs opened a pop-up in New York's SoHo neighborhood where a robot barista poured cold brew and an AI shopkeeper haggled with customers over merchandise. The event showcased the company's voice AI technology, inclu…
A developer at CitizenApp built nine AI features using React 19's `useActionState` hook, which eliminates the need for multiple `useState` calls to manage loading, error, and result states in form-driven features. The ho…