Generative AI

Google Cloud and Verizon announced a strategic partnership to deploy full-stack AI across Verizon's customer experience, network operations, marketing, and enterprise data platforms, integrating Google Cloud's data infra…

Parth J. Shah released visual-planning-skills, a set of four Claude Code skills that generate interactive HTML documents for planning and explaining AI workflows, replacing text-heavy plans with animated diagrams and dec…

Bun 1.4, released last week, includes a rewrite from Zig to Rust with over 1 million new lines of Rust code, driven by one developer, Jarred Sumner, using a pre-release version of Fable 5 and an unlimited token budget, p…

A viral chart from June 2026 shows that agentic AI has driven a massive increase in new app submissions to Apple's App Store, but adoption remains flat, indicating that software has become user-generated content with plu…

Amplitude Studios denied accusations that the Humankind 2 announcement trailer was generated by AI, stating it used 'real actors, practical sets, and custom-made props.' The studio's response comes after viewers criticiz…

MIT's NANDA initiative reviewed over 300 disclosed deployments and found 95 percent of enterprise generative AI pilots delivered zero measurable return, according to an analysis arguing that value is lost because most ef…

A developer built a tool that turns text prompts into wall art, including canvas prints and large tapestries. They discovered that the required resolution for prints depends on viewing distance, not print size, and that …

Voiced, a new AI-powered content tool, turns a two-minute voice note into seven drafts — three X threads, three LinkedIn posts, and a newsletter draft — in the user's own voice. The tool, available at getvoiced.co, is de…

Kred, a top-level domain operator, and its sister company are hosting a 48-hour agentic registrar vibecoding sprint starting 4PM EDT on 26 August, offering a $1,000 build grant. Participants can use a Gradio demo or remi…

A Hacker News user asks whether code-native 3D is about to undergo a Cambrian explosion, noting that LLMs are becoming better spatial coders and that a niche of users is leveraging Three.js, Python, or C# for dynamic, AI…

Google has expanded Gemini in Chrome with a new 'Select from screen' feature that lets desktop users draw a bounding box around any region of a web page—containing text, images, or both—and send it directly to Gemini for…

The AI ad platform's b-roll capability evolved through three phases, from manual beat markers to vision-authored cutaways. Phase 1 gave editors manual control, Phase 2 automated timing from reference videos, and Phase 3 …

Pablo Arredondo, cofounder of Casetext and a pioneer in legal AI, is joining Clio as senior vice president of judiciary, effective Aug. 31, to lead the company's first dedicated expansion into the courts. Clio CEO Jack N…

Billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller, founder of Duquesne Capital, said he used artificial intelligence to write a Wall Street Journal opinion column criticizing Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s debt buybacks, ac…

Billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller, founder of Duquesne Capital, admitted Tuesday that he used AI to write a Wall Street Journal op-ed criticizing Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's debt buyback plan, saying 'of …

LLMs can now generate programmable 3D objects by writing code that defines the object's structure, logic, and articulations, rather than producing static meshes. This approach, highlighted in a project at nova3d.xyz, ena…

Google's Pixel 11 'Rambler' voice-to-text tool, part of the Gemini Intelligence suite, lacks a live preview, a flaw that Nothing's upcoming 'Essential Voice' update in Nothing OS 5.0 addresses by transcribing speech in r…

A new guide from marketingsohigh.com argues that AI marketing systems for SaaS in 2026 are essential for organic growth, replacing paid ads with autonomous content creation, semantic SEO, and personalized outreach. The g…

A developer details how modern browser-based architectures can execute real-time image masking, inpainting, and layer compositing at 60fps using WebGL, WebGPU, and WebAssembly. The post explains the engineering challenge…

Stability AI has raised $76 million in a Series B round from entertainment companies including Electronic Arts, Sony Music Group, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, AMD Ventures, and Pacific Alliance Ventures, as…