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Passionfroot, a German startup building a B2B creator marketplace, has raised $15 million in a Series A funding round led by Insight Partners to expand to the US. The company, which has increased revenue 13 times in the …
Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold 8 series and Z Flip 8 will come pre-installed with Gemini Notebook, Google's deep research tool formerly known as NotebookLM, and include expanded task automation support for up to 40 apps. Google…
Twin sisters Danielle and Leah Cohen-Shohet, Princeton graduates and former Goldman Sachs employees, raised $44 million at a $1.15 billion valuation for their wellness company Genius AI, making it a unicorn. The funding …
TIME and Statista ranked Duolingo as the world's top EdTech company of 2026, based on financial performance and industry impact. The language-learning app, which now has over 60 million daily active users and generated m…
Voice cloning for podcasts has matured, with 80% of GLAD-AI-TOR crowd recommending ElevenLabs, but achieving non-robotic results requires 30+ minutes of clean audio, a dynamic mic, and settings like stability 0.35-0.45 a…
Google's AI Overviews, launching this week in the U.S., synthesize answers to user queries, potentially reducing click-through rates to news sites and businesses dependent on web search traffic. Geoffrey A. Moore argues …
Anna Liberty, author of a widely shared statement, declares she does not use large language models (LLMs) or generative AI for prose, code, or any other purpose, and refuses contributions or content generated by such too…
Luke Stoffel won a 2026 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award for his AI-assisted memoir 'How to Win One Million Dollars and $#!T Glitter,' which he wrote with AI to get cast on Survivor. Stoffel argues the 'slop' debate is about…
A developer built a generative simulation benchmarking framework for satellite anomaly response, using a conditional variational autoencoder to create realistic anomalies and test AI-driven recovery actions. The framewor…
Microsoft's Copilot AI assistant in PowerPoint can automate presentation creation, generating first-draft slides in minutes and helping users edit them. Individuals with a Microsoft 365 Personal, Family, or Premium subsc…
Toronto-based startup ChatFeatured has raised $2 million USD to help brands optimize their visibility in responses from chatbots like Claude and ChatGPT. The funding will support the company's platform that improves how …
Meta launched Content Seal, an invisible watermarking system for AI-generated images, in July 2024, but the technology is less robust than existing solutions like Google's C2PA Content Credentials, according to The Verge…
Anthropic chief national security officer Tarun Chhabra identified Chinese AI developer Zhipu among companies that have allegedly distilled capabilities from frontier American models, but hours later Mira Murati's Thinki…
A developer at ngram outlines a repeatable workflow for SaaS teams to create accurate product demos from release artifacts. The method treats release notes, screenshots, and recordings as a versioned input bundle, with a…
Meta is piloting a new AI app called StoryKit that lets parents generate personalized children's bedtime stories by photographing a toy or person to create a character, describing a story world, and choosing moral themes…
Google killed Gemini CLI on June 18, replacing the 104,000-star Apache 2.0 open-source tool with a closed-source Go binary called Antigravity CLI, drawing 143 thumbs-down reactions on the official GitHub announcement thr…
Elon Musk announced on X that his AI tool Grok Imagine will produce a full-length, 'historically accurate' film adaptation of Homer's 'The Odyssey' by the end of 2026, sharing an AI-generated 3-minute short as a preview.…
Websites cited in ChatGPT answers are twice as likely to be selected as a source by users, according to an analysis of the platform's citation ecosystem. ChatGPT reaches over 190,000 monthly visitors, and AI-referred tra…
Software developers have abandoned traditional engineering norms and now rely heavily on large language models (LLMs) to write code, debug errors, and scaffold entire systems without fully understanding the generated out…
WorldOS, a free-to-play browser platform, offers AI-powered war and grand-strategy games like Pax Historia, where users lead nations through AI-written alternate history. The platform provides daily free zaps with no cre…