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NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a 30B-A3B hybrid Mamba MoE agent model released two weeks ago, has been extended to process images and speech without any training, thanks to a geometry coincidence with NVIDIA's Nemotron…
A virtual AI-generated Cat-in-the-Hat character has appeared in Glasgow, causing confusion among residents, while authorities in Wexford, Ireland, have already debunked the phenomenon. The incident, reported by Boing Boi…
OpenAI has expanded ChatGPT Ads from a US pilot to a broader self-serve platform, opening Ads Manager to all US advertisers and adding cost-per-click bidding alongside CPM. The ads appear at the bottom of conversations, …
AWS introduced a customizable, smart-caching knowledge management system that uses Amazon Bedrock, Amazon S3, Amazon OpenSearch Serverless, and other services to preserve institutional knowledge via an AI-powered avatar …
Claude Opus 5, an AI model by Anthropic, wrote the code to emulate a QIC-117 tape drive in the 86Box emulator, allowing DOS and early Windows backup software to read virtual tape images. The emulation initially worked wi…
A Hacker News user argues that in the age of AI-generated software 'slop', marketplaces may offer a stronger moat than pure software, as code becomes cheap but customization remains difficult. The user proposes using AI …
A UC Berkeley math professor, Zvezdelina Stankova, admitted to using AI to edit her August 15th essay that criticized students' preparedness, after the AI detector Pangram flagged the piece as 33% AI-generated. Stankova …
Pew Research Center's Data Labs team analyzed nearly half a million webpages and found signs of AI authorship or editing on about 10% of them, with the share rising to 35% for pages published after ChatGPT's launch. The …
In a CNET comparison, Google's Gemini Flash outperformed OpenAI's ChatGPT in visual recognition tests, correctly transcribing messy handwritten notes from The Hound of the Baskervilles and identifying the source, while C…
A Pew Research Center analysis of nearly half a million English-language web pages found that more than a third of pages published since ChatGPT's launch show signs of AI-generated text, with commercial .com sites ten ti…
Chris Domanski, 41, director of business management and development at Renau, a California manufacturing facility, built a voice-mode AI tutor using ChatGPT to help his daughters, ages 8 and 6, with spelling and math, af…
MiniMax, founded by Yan Junjie, is offering 14 days of unlimited access to four models—M3, M2.7, Speech 2.8, and Music 3.0—through GMI Cloud, with the promotion running through September 6. The deal gives GMI Cloud users…
NVIDIA's Nemotron-3-Nano-Omni-30B multimodal model now runs fully in llama.cpp with working audio and video, thanks to a new GGUF release by engram-ae and a llama.cpp fork by VincentKaufmann. The release includes nine qu…
Kohya-ss/sd-scripts enables training a ~45 MB SDXL LoRA from 15–30 product photos on a single 12 GB GPU, with a step-by-step guide covering installation, dataset preparation, and training. The workflow uses a trigger wor…
Apple Inc. released the seventh beta of macOS Golden Gate to developers on August 24, 2026, one week after the sixth beta. The update introduces Siri AI, a chatbot-style assistant integrated into Spotlight, along with AI…
Apple has seeded the seventh betas of iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 to developers, one week after the sixth betas. The update introduces Siri AI, a ChatGPT-like chatbot, and new Apple Intelligence features across Photos, Safari, …
Apple has seeded the seventh beta of visionOS 27 to developers, arriving one week after the fifth beta. The update introduces Siri AI, a more capable version of Siri similar to ChatGPT and Claude, along with new features…
Apple has released iOS 27 beta 7 for developer testing, continuing its summer beta cycle ahead of a public release in September. The update is part of Apple's most AI-focused iPhone release yet, featuring Siri AI powered…
A Reddit user's post showing a house listing allegedly enhanced with AI has sparked debate, with commenters arguing the practice should be illegal and constitutes fraud. The enhanced image, which adds a perfect lawn, fac…
Microsoft's MS Paint embeds an invisible watermark containing a server-issued GUID in every AI-generated image, and cancels generation if the watermarking step fails, according to a reverse engineering analysis by resear…