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Kuaishou's AI video generation business Kling AI raised nearly $3 billion in external funding on July 2, with a post-money valuation of $18 billion. The round was co-led by CPE, Guofang Venture Capital, BlueFive, Tencent…
Apple responded to a class action lawsuit filed by three YouTube channels—h3h3Productions, MrShortGame Golf, and Golfholics—arguing that it lawfully accessed publicly available videos under the DMCA and YouTube's Terms o…
Tencent is joining a reported $3 billion funding round for Kuaishou's AI video generation platform Kling AI, which is expected to be valued at $18 billion. Kuaishou plans to spin off Kling AI and launch an IPO as early a…
Darren Aronofsky's AI-generated video series 'On This Day…1776' has become a surreal, grotesque blend of technical ambition and patriotism, drawing backlash for its AI slop and erratic weekly schedule. The project, produ…
AI code generation is transforming software development by automating typing, shifting the bottleneck from manual coding to idea generation and validation. The author argues that the true skill has always been knowing wh…
Creatify's Pro plan at $99 per month transforms product pages into ad creatives, with URL-to-Video scraping Amazon listings to produce scripted ad variants featuring avatar presenters, captions, and music. The tool excel…
A community-built fine-tune of Google's Gemma 4 31B model has beaten the base model by 290 Elo points on the EqBench3 benchmark for marketing copy, according to a Reddit post. The fine-tune leverages Gemma 4's Apache 2.0…
OpenAI has released GPT-5.5, confirmed via official access on April 23, 2026. The model achieves a score of 96.6 on the Agentic#2 benchmark and 1474.62 on LM Arena, while Meta's rival model Watermelon reportedly matches …
OpenMontage, an open-source agentic video production system with 12 pipelines and 52 tools, has surpassed 31,000 stars on GitHub. The system automates the entire video creation workflow from script to final render using …
Meta has soft-launched a new app called Pocket that lets users create generative AI minigames through vibe-coding, available on iOS and Android since June 29 but not yet in the US. The app, which uses the same nomenclatu…
A new tutorial demonstrates building a multimodal retrieval pipeline called RAG-Anything that handles text, tables, equations, and images in Google Colab. The workflow uses OpenAI APIs to test naive, local, global, and h…
Adobe is experimenting with 'agentic sites' that generate personalized web pages in real time based on a visitor's intent, using LLMs to assemble content from existing material. Principal Scientist Carlos Sanchez demonst…
FIFA named ADI Predictstreet as the first official prediction-market partner for the 2026 World Cup, which will feature 48 teams across 16 host cities in Canada, Mexico, and the United States. The tournament is serving a…
Meta quietly launched a new gaming app called Pocket, which lets users generate interactive mini-apps and games using AI prompts. The app, built on technology from Meta's acquisition of vibe-coded gaming platform Gizmo, …
Simon Willison used DSPy to evaluate and improve the system prompts for Datasette Agent, an AI tool that executes read-only SQL queries. The research identified that including column names in schema listings could reduce…
Amazon Bedrock, a fully managed service from AWS, now detects AI-generated phishing emails by analyzing behavioral patterns and contextual anomalies rather than relying on traditional grammar-based filters. The service u…
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong revealed the company operates 1,200 full-time AI agents, restructuring engineering pods to include two to four humans and ten agents. Code shipped per developer has doubled year over year, wi…
Geoffrey Litt spoke at AIE about the need for developers to understand code changes made by AI agents to avoid cognitive debt and remain active participants in the creative process. His talk, part of over 300 recorded se…
Netflix faces backlash after using AI to recreate the voice of late actor Gene Wilder for a new Willy Wonka competition show, 'Wonka's The Golden Ticket.' Fans called the move 'disgusting' and 'disrespectful,' despite ap…
Paul Bakaus, creator of the open-source design skills system Impeccable, argues that AI agents require human steering and domain-specific vocabularies rather than one-shot design. He advocates for skill engineering as a …