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Co.Labs, a Saskatchewan startup incubator, reports that all 30 of its resident startups now use AI, with realtor-focused app Rivra built from idea to beta in nine months using tools like ChatGPT. Co-founder Caroline Gilm…
Happy Horse 1.1 Image to Video defeated CogVideoX-5B in a head-to-head comparison, scoring 16.9 to 0.5 across two video generation tasks. CogVideoX-5B failed to produce coherent scenes for either prompt, while Happy Hors…
In mid-2021, while the tech world focused on the Metaverse and NFTs, a small group of developers and researchers in Silicon Valley had early access to GPT-3 and GitHub Copilot and realized the transformative potential of…
A developer published a comprehensive guide for running state-of-the-art LLMs locally, covering tooling, dependencies, and performance optimization. The pxpipe project introduced a technique to reduce LLM API costs for c…
Course creator Josh W. Comeau reports that his third course, Whimsical Animations, is selling roughly one-third as many copies as typical launches, with overall course revenue down 50% or more. He attributes the decline …
A developer who runs AGenO evaluated nine free AI generators in 2026, including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity, detailing their actual free tiers and hidden limits. The analysis reveals that most 'free' tools im…
Japan has become a fast adopter of AI coding tools like Cognition AI's Devin, driven by a shrinking workforce and aging legacy infrastructure. The country faces a projected shortage of 789,000 software engineers by 2030,…
Adapt launches an AI-native work platform that integrates with Slack to provide a superintelligent coworker capable of answering questions, automating workflows, and building internal apps across a company's entire tech …
Dutch artist Ray Tijssen's AI-driven immersive exhibition 'Algorithmic Organisms 2.0' opened in Kuala Lumpur, featuring generative imagery and spatial audio that create a living, evolving environment. The show, organized…
Dutch audiovisual artist Ray Tijssen opens 'Algorithmic Organisms 2.0' at The Grey Box in Kuala Lumpur from July 4 to 19, 2026, featuring a generative AI-driven installation that continuously regenerates visuals and soun…
Anthropic's Claude Code now writes 90% of the company's own codebase, boosting engineer output by 200% and shifting bottlenecks to code review. The tool's Code Review product increased substantive pull request comments f…
A commentator argues that AI models should have built-in controls to refuse harmful requests, comparing the need for friction to restrictions on handguns and fentanyl. The author advocates for open-source AI to prevent a…
Simon Willison reported that instructing Claude Code to delegate coding tasks to lower-power subagents using its own judgment significantly improved efficiency and reduced token usage. The approach, inspired by tips from…
The browser wars have shifted from search to AI, with new entrants like Perplexity's Comet, The Browser Company's Dia, Opera's Neon, OpenAI's Atlas, and Y Combinator-backed Aside challenging Chrome and Safari by embeddin…
A diner at a Chicago-area cafe noticed an upside-down 'S' in a 'PARIS' sign, reflecting on how similar inattention allows obviously AI-generated art to appear in public spaces without challenge. The author argues that ma…
As of mid-2026, open-source AI video models like Wan 2.2, Open-Sora 2.0, and HunyuanVideo can run on consumer GPUs with 8GB to 24GB VRAM, generating 5-20 second clips at 720p or 1080p. However, leaderboards and aggregato…
Costco's revenue has grown over 10% annually for five years by offering a limited selection of 4,000 SKUs, contrasting with Amazon's infinite assortment model. The retailer's constrained choice and supplier relationships…
Natwest CEO Paul Thwaite was impersonated in a deepfake image on X, falsely depicting him in a BBC radio interview with journalist Emily Maitlis. The scam follows similar AI-generated fakes targeting Bank of England Gove…
Researchers at British AI security startup Mindgard found that a simple prompt can cause ChatGPT to ignore safety guardrails and generate violent, gory, and sexual images. The technique involved slightly altering a widel…
The Verge staff published their annual summer 'in' and 'out' list, featuring cultural and tech trends such as motion sickness glasses, fiber, bootleg sports merch, and floating in water as 'in,' while AI 'pervert' glasse…