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Grind and Unwind, a San Francisco restaurant, removed AI-generated ads and menus after backlash that included graffiti on its storefront. Co-owner Lyndsey Lozano told NBC Bay Area the AI images were intended as a tempora…
Adobe's Project Indigo camera app version 1.1 adds generative AI tools, including a large language model that critiques composition, lighting, and color, and can restyle or remove objects. The AI Playground features butt…
Legal AI startup Vikk AI raised $4.2 million in funding to expand its consumer AI platform and sell law firms sponsored placements inside AI-powered legal searches. The company's Lawyer Ad Center matches ads to user prac…
Google has open-sourced Jetpacker, a demo travel app built for Google I/O that showcases how to integrate generative AI features into Android apps using on-device and cloud models. The app uses Gemini Nano through ML Kit…
Worldwide AI spending is forecast to reach $2.52 trillion in 2026, but roughly 95 percent of enterprise generative AI pilots produce no measurable impact on the P&L, according to MIT's Project NANDA. A consultant told Ax…
Google's Firebase AI Logic SDK now supports cloud and hybrid inference for Android apps, enabling developers to build intelligent features that combine on-device Gemini Nano models with cloud fallback for compatibility. …
Anthropic's Claude Code team members Cat Wu and Thariq Shihipar said during a fireside chat at the AI Engineer World's Fair that coding agents have shifted engineering from months-long planning cycles to one-week build t…
District 9 and Gran Turismo director Neill Blomkamp has created a fully AI-generated film, drawing widespread criticism online. The project, which uses artificial intelligence for all visual elements, has sparked debate …
VidDojo, a new AI-powered platform, turns any YouTube video into an interactive course by inserting questions inside the player and rewinding to the exact spot on wrong answers. The tool automatically cuts chapters, paus…
A study published in Telematics and Informatics found that 80 to 90 percent of college students use generative AI tools like ChatGPT, driven by fear of falling behind, leading to "noAIphobia" — anxiety when the tools are…
Gartner predicts rising token-driven AI spend will strain budgets by 2028, prompting CIOs to adopt a new metric: return on tokens (ROT). Drawing from the laws of thermodynamics, the article argues that tokens create valu…
A product designer built an AI-powered Voice of the Customer platform that not only synthesizes customer conversations but also generates grounded product proposals, closing the gap between research insights and actionab…
Google's integration of generative AI into search, particularly AI Mode, is keeping users inside its ecosystem and starving external websites of traffic, with studies showing users never leave AI Mode in about 75% of ses…
Google rolled out a toggle for its Gemini-powered 'Ask Photos' feature that lets users switch between classic and AI search, but the default search mode is still chosen by Google's algorithm, and users who never opted in…
Kuaishou Technology filed a notice on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on July 2, revealing that its AI video generation unit Kling secured approximately $2.8 billion in investor commitments, expandable to $3 billion, with a…
Gaming startup Studio Atelico is developing its debut game Bobium Brawlers using its on-device Atelico AI Engine, which runs locally rather than on cloud servers and is trained on the studio's own artists' work to addres…
Google engineer Bhavuk Jain presented how modern AI systems become products, detailing two mobile features: AI wallpapers and Circle to Search. The process involves four architectural steps—post-training, fine-tuning, re…
Google's Gemini Report: Southeast Asia 2026 reveals that Indonesia generates 9 million image requests per day on Gemini AI, the highest in Southeast Asia. Vice President of Southeast Asia and South Asia Frontier Google S…
EarlyForge, an editorial intelligence platform founded in 2026, scans thousands of data sources across 50 countries to detect emerging trends and generate publishable articles before the wider news cycle catches up. The …
A developer open-sourced 11 AI prompts used to ship five digital products in two months, covering launch tweets, Show HN posts, changelog entries, cold outreach DMs, README intros, and PR description templates. Each prom…