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Farid Zakaria redesigned his personal blog fzakaria.com using AI, adding a sidebar layout, a Nix store entry in the footer, and three new Jekyll plugins for image source-sets, CSS content hashing, and a sha256-based mast…
Maginary.ai, an image/video generator with a Midjourney-like prompt syntax using 40+ underlying models, announced a major update integrating seedance2 and GPT-images2 support. The platform, which acts as an abstracted Op…
US President Donald Trump shared AI-generated images on social media depicting a US seizure of an Iranian oil tanker and a strike on Iran's Kharg oil export terminal amid ongoing US-Iran tensions. The images suggest pote…
A relay market in China is enabling token resellers to offer discounted LLM API access by abusing free trials, unprotected support bots, stolen credit cards, and chargeback attacks, according to a report by Vectoral. The…
Midjourney, the bootstrapped AI image company with $500M in annual revenue, acquired Co-Star, a social astrology app with 4.3 million monthly users, in its first-ever acquisition. The deal closed in spring 2026 and was a…
Free AI tools in 2026 can handle 90% of daily tasks without subscriptions, according to a guide for beginners. Recommended tools include Claude and GPT for general LLMs, Perplexity for research, Leonardo.ai for image gen…
Agentic AI offers writers a new form of leverage through Specification-Driven Authoring (SDA), a workflow that keeps the writer in control while structuring AI collaboration for planning, drafting, verifying, revising, a…
Free AI coding tools in 2024 and 2025 include Cursor's Hobby tier with 2,000 completions, Codeium's unlimited autocomplete across 70+ languages, and GitHub Copilot free for verified students and open-source maintainers. …
Hundreds of Irish writers are set to share millions of euro after a €1.31 billion settlement of a copyright infringement case by AI company Anthropic, which owns the Claude AI models. The settlement, the first case again…
A developer building Punchline Ops, an AI meme generator, discovered that HTTP 200 responses can hide invalid artifacts when storage returns success but the stored bytes don't match the promised format. The project uses …
Black Forest Labs released FLUX 3, a multimodal foundation model that jointly learns from images, video, audio and robot action prediction within a single architecture, generating clips up to 20 seconds with native audio…
A new guide for freelancers offers 10 high-impact ChatGPT prompts to automate client management, workflow, and business growth tasks, treating the LLM as a specialized consultant. The prompts cover scope creep responses,…
A New York Times investigation found that Meta's Facebook and Instagram are hosting AI-generated videos featuring fake doctors and health gurus who peddle unproven medical advice and dubious supplements, with one company…
A new open-source React charting library, @microcharts/react, offers 106 chart types small enough to fit inside a line of text, with zero dependencies and a size of 2.17–6.75 kB per interactive chart, enforced in CI. The…
Lee Hutchinson used large language models to design a case for his digital clock, connecting LLMs to Autodesk Fusion 360's new MCP server feature. A local Qwen model made progress but required a second pass with Claude m…
A PC Gamer article asks readers how they feel about AI-generated videogame music, prompting discussion on the use of artificial intelligence in game soundtracks.
Cookbook AI, a new tool from an unnamed developer, lets users turn scattered recipe files into a print-ready cookbook without design skills. Users upload PDFs, Word docs, or photos, and the AI reads them, drafts an outli…
India's content creators and startup ecosystem are rapidly adopting AI tools that summarize long-form YouTube videos and detect AI-generated text, with platforms like Lynote offering free, low-friction options that combi…
An AI listing generator automates product descriptions for multiple e-commerce platforms, reducing a three-hour writing session to a five-minute review. The tool uses a transformation pipeline with input, context, and ge…
Science fiction author and journalist Cory Doctorow warns that when the AI bubble bursts, executives who replaced staff with AI tools will face a 'really long time' to recover lost skills, and cautions creative workers a…