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General Compute, an AI inference cloud startup, has secured a $400 million loan from Upper90, marking what may be the first deal to use inference-specific chips as collateral. The financing signals growing market demand …
A debate has emerged over whether AI usage in movies and TV shows should be explicitly disclosed, as the entertainment industry increasingly adopts generative AI for visual effects, scriptwriting, and voice synthesis. Pr…
Netflix disclosed in its Q2 2026 earnings that generative AI has been used across roughly 300 titles this year, with co-chief executive Ted Sarandos citing a 50% cost reduction and double the speed for 17 minutes of AI-e…
Indonesia is drafting amendments to its copyright law that would explicitly regulate artificial intelligence, granting copyright privileges to human creators using AI as a tool while excluding fully machine-generated wor…
ComfyUI's shared Python environment creates dependency conflicts, as exemplified by Qwen3-TTS requiring transformers==4.57.3 while newer models need Transformers 5.x, causing workflows to break. The author, who uses Comf…
Roboflow released a guide for building an automated beverage shelf-monitoring system using RF-DETR object detection and Gemini 2.5 Pro, which detects and counts Coca-Cola, Fanta, and Sprite bottles, calculates replenishm…
Google Vids has been updated with the Gemini Omni model and personal avatars, enabling conversational editing and clip generation via text, voice, or gestures, and allowing users to star in videos with a few clicks.
San Francisco city attorney David Chiu sent cease-and-desist letters to Apple and Google on Thursday, demanding they remove 13 AI-powered face-swapping apps from their app stores that allow users to create nonconsensual …
Netflix is overhauling search and discoverability using large language models, with generative AI workflows used in roughly 300 of its titles, co-CEO Ted Sarandos said on a July 16 Q2 call. The company has built its own …
Meta software engineer Rohan Kulkarni spends four to six hours a week outside work learning about AI and experimenting with tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity, paying about $50 a month for subscriptions. He said …
JetBrains released PhpStorm 2026.2, adding native support for more third-party AI providers, an agent skills manager, and native GitHub Copilot integration through a partnership with Microsoft. The update also introduces…
Hally Peck, chief marketing officer at Addition Wealth and a working mother of two in New York, uses AI agents including Perplexity for grocery ordering and Claude Cowork for family calendar management to save time and r…
Stockholm-based AI startup Lovable is on track to reach $1 billion in annual recurring revenue within 12 months, a milestone that would make it one of the fastest companies ever to achieve that threshold. Founded by Anto…
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on 16 July published the Rental Ripoff Report, a 23-point agenda that would compel landlords and brokers to disclose when a listing image has been digitally altered, including AI edits.…
Companies should focus on redesigning their organizations rather than chasing the latest AI models as autonomous AI agents approach mainstream enterprise adoption, speakers said Friday at the 2026 CEO Summer Forum hosted…
Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol autonomously produced full music videos from a song and $100 budget, with GPT-5.6 Sol costing 4x less in LLM tokens ($3–4 vs. $16–25) despite similar output, according to a test on tryai.de…
At the AI for Bharat Hackathon, a developer built BizBoost AI, a voice-first React frontend for Indian micro-merchants that uses the browser's native Web Speech API for Hindi speech recognition. The frontend integrates w…
A developer outlines a process for using AI in content creation without losing human voice and personality. The guide emphasizes techniques such as providing writing samples to match style, using constraint-based editing…
Meta is rolling out new parental alert features for its AI chatbot that notify parents enrolled in Instagram supervision when a teenager's chat suggests suicide or self-harm, expanding to Pakistan by year's end. The syst…
AI helped a game developer create every game they ever wanted to make, enabling rapid prototyping and iteration across multiple genres including sci-fi tactical card battles and fleet-based strategy, all playable instant…