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Iranian state-linked television aired an AI-generated segment in August fantasizing about assassinating Barron Trump, the 20-year-old son of US President Donald Trump, following a previous clip titled 'How to Kill Melani…
Google is rolling out a new Ask Gemini shortcut in Android's text selection menu, allowing users to send selected text directly to the Gemini app with one tap. The feature, found in Google app versions 17.51.19 and 17.51…
Cheshire Academy, a private boarding and day school in Connecticut with about 400 students in grades 9 through 12, is piloting a traffic light metaphor to guide students on when AI use is appropriate, while teachers use …
On August 20, 2026, NetDocuments launched Tabular Review, an AI feature that converts legal document collections into structured, citable tables, with results linked to source passages and governed by existing document m…
A developer's small transformer that generates web apps from one-line specs fails to generalize to unseen domains, scoring 0% on held-out feature combinations despite fixing data pipeline issues. The model, trained on 4,…
A developer repurposed an Ender 3 3D printer as a pen plotter by attaching a fineliner pen with magnets, using Inkscape and the Simple Inkscape Scripting extension to generate generative art. The setup enables procedural…
Dave Plummer, the former Microsoft engineer who created the original 1996 Windows Task Manager, has released new versions for Windows, Mac, and Linux, built largely through AI-assisted 'vibe coding' with a 107-page speci…
TD Cowen raised its Amazon Web Services (AWS) revenue estimate to $165 billion for 2026, 3% above Wall Street consensus, and to $222 billion for 2027, 11% above consensus, citing generative AI tailwinds and Amazon's plan…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is developing a plan to regulate medical devices that use generative artificial intelligence, according to Rick Abramson, director of the agency's Digital Health Center of Exce…
China's ultra-short drama industry is being transformed by AI-generated video, with production hubs like Zhengzhou facing shrinking budgets and fewer shoots while AI studios in Wuxi produce dramas faster and at lower cos…
LexisNexis Legal & Professional unveiled the LexisNexis Legal Intelligence Engine, a new orchestration layer for its Lexis+ with Protégé generative AI assistant, enabling dynamic agentic workflows that select models, too…
Coca-Cola's Fanta is launching its own Halloween universe with four original characters created with AI entertainment studio GRAiL, following tie-ins with Chucky and M3gan. The brand will introduce the characters in a ho…
Police in Wexford, Ireland, and South Yorkshire, England, have issued statements clarifying that viral images and videos of a 'Cat in the Hat' serial killer are AI-generated, with Wexford gardai stating 'the Cat in the H…
ComfyUI v0.33.1, released August 2026, can be installed locally to run Stable Diffusion 1.5 workflows, according to a tutorial by Mariana Souza on Sourcefeed. The guide walks through setting up ComfyUI, downloading the f…
China's ultrashort-drama industry, which reached 851 million users and a market value exceeding 100 billion yuan, is facing a downturn as AI reduces production costs and major platforms cut guaranteed funding, leading Zh…
NVIDIA's unreleased DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction DLL files have leaked via the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 beta, and gamers are already testing the technology, reporting immediate visual improvements and a new quality …
SpareBank 1 Utvikling senior developers Asgaut Mjølne Söderbom and Ola Hast reported that after experimenting with Claude Code, they found AI tools useful for analysis and task kickstarting but not for coding in complex …
Microsoft's Copilot generative AI chatbot can be optimized for research with six tips, including selecting the right mode and directing it to specific sources, according to a Computerworld guide. The guide notes that Cop…
Google's John Mueller said there is nothing special businesses need to do for generative AI responses in search, as Google's AI results derive directly from its regular search index. Responding to a question about indust…
Youbooks is offering a lifetime subscription to its AI non-fiction book generator for a one-time $32.97 payment, down from the regular $540, through Aug. 25. The platform uses multiple AI models including ChatGPT, Claude…