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A Tech Transparency Project report found that Meta ran thousands of advertisements for AI-powered 'nudify' apps that digitally undress women, with the ad network traced to a single Chinese firm called GatherOne. The watc…
Meta Platforms' Facebook and Instagram have served thousands of ads for AI 'nudify' apps in breach of company policies, delivered by advertising partner GatherOne, according to a report from the nonprofit Tech Transparen…
Relay Studio, a desktop application that wraps AI coding agents into a visual Kanban build workflow, has been released. The tool supports Claude Code and OpenAI Codex as execution engines, enabling users to describe feat…
The web is no longer optimized for human visitors, as AI search, zero-click results, and machine consumption are fundamentally changing its economics, architecture, and purpose, according to a member-only story. Google n…
A developer's twelve-word question about whether the industry had shifted from loops to graphs drew millions of views and spawned competing definitions, highlighting how AI engineering has renamed itself roughly once a q…
Canva has become the world's third most-used generative AI consumer product by monthly visits, behind ChatGPT and Google Gemini, according to analysis from VC firm a16z. In June, the Australian-founded company launched C…
RAGFlow, an open-source Retrieval-Augmented Generation engine with agent capabilities, gained 522 GitHub stars. The project, primarily written in Go, now has 86k stars on GitHub and was last updated in July 2026.
Top movie directors Guillermo del Toro, Christopher Nolan, and Steven Spielberg are publicly rejecting generative AI in filmmaking, warning it could deprive future generations of learning the craft and calling for skepti…
A scoping review published July 23 in npj Digital Medicine mapped 21 studies of generative AI mental health chatbots across 11 countries from 2023 through 2025, finding that users often reported convenience, personalizat…
Michaels reported that its Google Gemini-powered AI shopping assistant, Ask Mike, has achieved a conversion rate more than double that of traditional search since its quiet launch in May 2024. The assistant has handled 7…
Publishers are exploring whether AI could replace human authors, with some viewing books written by people as a new premium product in an era of machine-generated content, according to the Financial Times.
A new study from arXiv finds that large language models (LLMs) frequently generate ungrounded content when producing podcast transcripts from documents, with even GPT-4o showing significant unfaithfulness. The researcher…
Researchers introduce MotifRole-Diff, a role-aware corruption process for masked molecular graph diffusion that allocates masking rates based on denoising difficulty and perturbation impact. Under matched architecture an…
A new training-free method from researchers improves revisit consistency in autoregressive generative rendering by using 3D engine correspondences to retrieve pose-matched historical latent chunks into the KV cache, outp…
A new study from arXiv reveals that standard metrics for certifying synthetic tabular data are largely blind to inter-column dependency, with a baseline that destroys all dependency judged indistinguishable from real dat…
A systematic review of 60 studies on diffusion models for medical image inpainting finds that denoising diffusion probabilistic models and latent diffusion models are the dominant architectures, primarily used for artifa…
Dataland, a museum of AI arts designed by Refik Anadol and Efsun Erkılıç in a Frank Gehry-designed building in Los Angeles, opens as an immersive experience using 84 4K Epson projectors and 50 billion pixels to display i…
Meta Platforms Inc.'s Facebook and Instagram served over 87,000 ads promoting AI-powered nudify apps from Joy Timeline HK Limited's CrushAI, violating Meta's own policies against non-consensual sexual content, according …
A developer building SDTK, a toolkit for gating AI-generated code, used AI to create six WebGL hero sections and found that none worked on the first try, requiring 12 human-reviewed passes to meet quality bars. The devel…
A new AI workflow called 'mobile vibe coding' allows developers to ship apps using only a smartphone by pairing a high-reasoning model like Claude 3.5 Sonnet or GPT-4o with a cloud-based editor that handles instant deplo…