Generative AI

Andy Burnham, set to become prime minister within three weeks, used TikTok to rate AI-generated mock-ups of his proposed 'No10 North' in Manchester, promoting his 'Manchesterism' agenda to decentralize power from Westmin…

SwiftAudio introduces a one-step text-to-audio framework that eliminates the need for paired audio data, using audio-free distillation to achieve state-of-the-art performance among one-step methods and nearly match multi…

Eli Lilly invested $40 million in Absci Corporation to advance ABS-201, an AI-designed injectable antibody targeting hair loss and endometriosis. The investment was part of a $100 million equity round that also included …

A new four-step test aims to catch AI errors before they influence business strategy, as ungoverned generative AI use could cost $10 billion in enterprise value losses, according to Forrester. The protocol, developed by …

Israeli micro drama app Shortical raised $100 million in financing from PvX Partners, highlighting investor enthusiasm for AI-driven content. The company plans to produce 20 hours of AI-generated shows monthly, leveragin…

Novant Health appointed Vijay Sankararaman as its first chief AI officer last year to reshape care delivery using artificial intelligence. The health system has deployed a virtual care AI agent for clinically accurate me…

Digital leaders must blend AI agents with human skills to navigate the agentic-enabled future, according to experts from Booking.com, Harvey Nash, IDC, and Segro. They recommend overcoming fear of AI, focusing on amplifi…

A developer built react-agent-widget, an open-source React chatbot widget that works with any LLM provider including OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS Bedrock, and Azure OpenAI. The widget features streaming responses, full theming…

Eli Lilly invested $40 million in Absci, a generative AI drug company, to develop ABS-201, an injectable antibody for baldness and endometriosis. The deal, part of a $100 million stock offering, aims to leverage AI-desig…

Embodied CAD, a new AI-driven framework, introduces agents that iteratively learn parametric modeling through a structured library of CAD skills, achieving high executable rates on complex tasks. This approach merges AI …

GeekyAnts co-founder Sanket Sahu discussed the AI-native shift in software development, highlighting that while AI accelerates code generation, human review and validation remain bottlenecks. The podcast warned that unch…

Anthropic launched Claude Science, a new AI tool for scientific research, prompting Google and OpenAI to accelerate their own competing efforts in the space.

AI agents suffer from limited memory due to the stateless nature of large language models, but retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) offers a solution by offloading long-term memory to external storage. RAG provides three…

A developer reflects on the allure and danger of the Fable AI model, which can generate software from a single prompt. They compare it to a siren's song, warning that its seductive power may lead to human irrelevance. Th…

A developer building VideoXO found that users prioritize outcomes over AI technology, focusing on reducing friction from idea to publishable video.

A new report from PLG AI reveals that the top 10% of B2B SaaS companies grow ARR 2.5x faster than peers while maintaining 120%+ NRR and sub-12-month CAC payback. The report highlights that the gap in 2026 is no longer co…

OCBC plans to raise annual technology spending to more than $771mn, as new CEO Tan Teck Long doubles down on AI and digital banking. The increase, one of Tan's first strategic signals since taking over in January 2026, a…

G2 published a comparison of the best AI coding assistants for 2026, evaluating tools like GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude, and Replit beyond simple autocomplete. The analysis covers codebase understanding, context switch…

NVIDIA released Nemotron-Labs-TwoTower, an open-weight diffusion language model that separates token representation and denoising into two towers, achieving 2.42× higher generation throughput while retaining 98.7% of the…

Google Arts & Culture creator David Li launched Splash Canvas, a digital painting experiment where users drag octopus or squid characters across a canvas to create art, with each character offering unique styles and play…