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LogoTeddy launches an AI-powered logo animation tool that generates custom cinematic reveals from static logos without templates. The service, which costs one credit ($0.01) per 5-second 480p reveal, offers free 100 cred…
IBM shares plunged 11.2% on February 23 after Anthropic unveiled Claude Code, a tool that automates COBOL code modernization, threatening a key revenue stream for IBM's consulting business. Bitcoin dropped 5% to $64,000 …
A developer building WebDigitize, an AI-powered website generator for Nigerian small businesses using the Puck drag-and-drop editor, found that LLM outputs must be structurally valid, not just semantically good. To preve…
StyleSeed, a free and MIT-licensed design-rules engine, launched to help AI coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor produce coherent, brand-specific UI instead of generic output. The engine uses token-based ski…
Spotify launched a new AI chatbot called 'Talk to Spotify' for Premium subscribers in select regions, allowing users to create custom playlists, ask questions about songs and listening habits, and interact with audiobook…
OpenArt AI is launching AI-generated ads in AMC theaters in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York, using its Director product to create videos up to five minutes long from text descriptions. The company, founded in 20…
A JPMorganChase Institute analysis of 4.6 million small businesses found that 17.7% had adopted a paid AI service by the end of 2025, with generative AI subscriptions now costing as little as $20–$30 per month, and most …
A founder's hands-on test of six AI video generators found that no single tool wins for all marketing use cases, with OpenAI's Sora delivering the most cinematic output but lacking brand consistency, Google's Veo 3 gener…
South Korean researchers at Seoul National University and Hanyang University have developed a generative AI model called Generative SNUPI that designs DNA sequences to fold into user-requested nanoscale shapes, such as d…
Reelful, an iOS app founded by former Snapchat machine learning engineer Kate Deyneka, uses AI to automatically transform users' camera roll photos and video clips into polished short-form videos for TikTok and Instagram…
Google's Gemini AI can plan a summer vacation itinerary in minutes, as demonstrated by ZDNET contributor Elyse Betters Picaro, who used Gemini to build a starter doc for a family trip to Disney World. In a test run of Pi…
Linux creator Linus Torvalds firmly rejected anti-AI sentiment on the Linux kernel mailing list, stating that the kernel project is not anti-AI and that AI is a useful tool. Torvalds said he will "absolutely put my foot …
Google released GNM Head, a high-fidelity statistical 3D model of the human head, as the first open-source component of its GNM Ecosystem. The model provides fine-grained, disentangled control over identity, expressions,…
Major book publishers Hachette Book Group, Cengage Learning, Elsevier, and author Scott Turow sued Google on July 10 in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, alleging the company used millions of c…
Google shipped Nano Banana 2 Lite and Gemini Omni Flash APIs on June 30, enabling developers to build a complete AI media pipeline from still image to animated video for $0.53 per asset. Nano Banana 2 Lite generates imag…
A solo operator built a $6,000/month ad copywriting business in 90 days using Claude, turning a 10-hour task into a 2-hour workflow. The model layers active retainers with passive income from digital products and email f…
Apple has registered its on-device generative AI service, Apple Intelligence, with China's Cyberspace Administration, clearing a regulatory hurdle for launch on iPhones in the country. The service will integrate AI model…
Only 0.3% of entry-level data job listings mention AI skills, compared to 3.6% of senior roles, according to the AI Requirements Index from Datamata Studios, which tracks generative-AI and classic-ML skill mentions daily…
Indian AI coding startup Emergent raised $130 million in Series C funding at a $1.5 billion post-money valuation, a five-fold jump from its $300 million valuation in January. The round was led by Creaegis with participat…
ChatGPT has returned to WhatsApp for users in the European Economic Area after the European Commission ordered Meta to provide free access to third-party AI chatbots on its messaging platform. The restoration follows Met…