Generative AI news and analysis on Web Pulse: 12422 curated articles tracking the latest Generative AI developments, tools, and research, updated continuously from vetted sources.
Generative social agents (GSAs) are poised to transform human-AI interaction through the new Knowledge-based Persuasion Model (KPM), which enables ethical persuasion by leveraging knowledge of self, user, and context. Th…
NotebookLM user shares five favorite tips and tricks for Google's AI research tool, including video overviews for dense documents and slide deck generation from uploaded sources. The author recommends using the Studio pa…
Kepco CIO Akio Ueda argues that the fundamental factor determining AI performance is not the model or tool but the quality of a company's proprietary data, stating that 'AI is a mirror of data.' Ueda emphasizes that good…
Spatial intelligence, an AI capability that enables models to reason about three-dimensional space, is emerging as the next frontier beyond large language models, according to Dr. Fei-Fei Li, Stanford professor and AI pi…
Meta has discontinued a controversial Instagram AI feature that allowed users to generate images by referencing public Instagram accounts, just days after its launch, following widespread backlash over privacy concerns. …
Google has rolled out Gemini in Chrome to users in the United Kingdom, adding an 'Ask Gemini' button with a sparkle icon to the browser. The feature, previously limited to AI Pro or AI Ultra subscribers, is now available…
Diachronic Sample Integration (DSI), a new approach for deep generative models, reduces tail-estimation errors in rare event prediction by aggregating samples across training checkpoints, outperforming standard methods i…
Anamnesis, an open-source AI platform built on the Anthology and Alterity frameworks, allows researchers to prototype surveys on simulated virtual populations, generating immediate AI responses that mimic real-world opin…
McKinsey & Company CFO Yuval Atsmon revealed in a Reuters podcast that the consulting giant is aggressively deploying AI internally while managing soaring infrastructure costs and unpredictable token bills, and argued th…
ClaudeThings launches a toolkit containing 89 specialized agents, 103 pre-built skills, and 181 slash commands that function as an AI engineering and marketing team within any project, accessible via a one-line npx comma…
Promptwatch, an Amsterdam startup founded in 2025 by Gijs de Groot and Klaas Foppen, raised EUR6 million in seed funding to automate generative engine optimization (GEO) for brands. The round was led by seed + speed Vent…
Google is rolling out Gemini in Chrome to desktop users in the UK, following previous launches in the US, Canada, India, New Zealand, Asia Pacific, Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East. The AI assistant appears as …
EmoStyle, a framework developed by researchers, won first place in the AffectiveArt Challenge 2026 by integrating emotion into AI-generated art through affective cues and style-specific LoRA adapters. The system uses a l…
Eastern Europe's largest banks are deploying a multimodal AI system that pretrains a foundation transformer model on a mix of transaction histories and digital signals, unifying heterogeneous data into a single chronolog…
A developer recounts their career journey from oil and gas to healthcare and back, culminating in a role at a software company where they now use AI-assisted coding tools to tackle complex codebases. They built a high-en…
Australia's 1968 copyright law has become the biggest hurdle for AI companies seeking to invest tens of billions of dollars in the country, with Anthropic telling the government any major investment is contingent on copy…
The Task-Conditioned Synthetic Data Generation (TCSDG) algorithm, pairing a Bayesian Network generator with a transformer-based model called TabICL, improved machine learning performance in crop type classification exper…
Anthropic's Claude Code v2.1.139 (May 2026) introduces the /goal command, which lets users set a completion condition so the AI autonomously runs multiple turns until an independent evaluator confirms the goal is met, el…
A new training-free refinement framework called DUNE (Diffusion Unified Network refiNEr) improves fidelity and reduces hallucinations in diffusion models by detecting and suppressing abrupt fluctuations in deep latents, …
A new Task-Conditioned Synthetic Data Generation (TCSDG) algorithm pairing a Bayesian Network generator with a transformer-based tabular foundation model (TabICL) improved machine learning performance in 89% of crop type…