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A Mississippi district attorney's office used AI to enhance mugshots and create AI-generated images of the DA for social media posts, drawing criticism as 'depraved' and highlighting the trend of immature online behavior…
Anthropic announced that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on its Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models, with access restoration beginning tomorrow.
AI is impacting higher education, but historical tech shocks like the Internet, big data, and MOOCs have had limited transformative effects on core pedagogy, suggesting AI may follow a similar pattern of absorption rathe…
ByteDance's Seedance V1.5 Pro Image to Video outperformed Wan v2.6 Image to Video in a head-to-head test, scoring 17.6 to 12.3. Seedance better preserved specific camera logic and prompt fidelity, while Wan often substit…
Google launched Nano Banana 2 Lite on June 30, 2026, a text-to-image model that generates 1K-resolution images in four seconds at $0.034 per image, embedding it across Search, Google Ads, NotebookLM, and Google Photos. T…
STMZ Kinetic launched an AI-powered social media workspace that lets users plan, create, schedule, and manage content from a single platform. The founder is seeking honest feedback from founders and builders on the produ…
Google Drive is bringing Ask Gemini and AI Overviews to Android and iOS, allowing users to have multi-turn conversations and get instant search summaries. The features are rolling out over the next few weeks for Google A…
Researchers introduced GAT, a purely transformer-based Generative Adversarial Network trained in a compact Variational Autoencoder latent space, achieving state-of-the-art single-step class-conditional generation on Imag…
A developer built Lynkr, an open-source LLM gateway that extends Claude Pro/Max usage by routing different coding tasks to appropriate models across Azure AI Foundry, Amazon Bedrock, and local models. The gateway aims to…
A developer built a generative simulation benchmarking framework for heritage language revitalization, using embodied agent feedback loops to evaluate cultural resonance beyond standard metrics like BLEU scores. The syst…
Meituan has open-sourced LongCat-2.0, a 1.6-trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts agentic coding model with a 1-million-token context window, designed to autonomously handle complex software engineering tasks. The model,…
OpenAI released GeneBench-Pro on June 30, 2026, a benchmark measuring AI agents' ability to reason about noisy biological datasets across 129 synthetic problems in genomics, quantitative biology, and translational medici…
Anthropic's Claude Science, an AI research workbench for molecular biology, mapped a scientific field for $26, demonstrating potential for broader scientific applications. The tool's low cost and capability suggest trans…
Anthropic launched Claude Science, a dedicated AI workbench for researchers, on Tuesday. The platform integrates over 60 scientific databases, prebuilt toolkits, and a fact-checking layer, allowing scientists to conduct …
YouTube launched Ask Studio, an AI-powered creative partner for creators, offering personalized recommendations based on channel data while ensuring privacy and security. The tool helps overcome creative blocks by allowi…
OpenAI has expanded its personal finance features for ChatGPT to Plus subscribers in the U.S., allowing users to connect financial accounts, view spending dashboards, and ask finance-related questions. The feature, previ…
Google is rolling out updates for Gemini Spark, its 24/7 personal agent for Google AI Ultra subscribers, adding third-party app integrations with Canva, Dropbox, Instacart, OpenTable, and Zillow Rentals, along with suppo…
A developer built AI Tattoo Generator, a tool that uses AI image generation to create tattoo designs from text descriptions. The tool includes a prompt pipeline tuned for tattoo aesthetics, offers free previews with wate…
A developer built a custom project management app in 24 hours after a friend complained that Trello was too complicated for renovating a house. The app, built with Flutter/Dart and an AI agent, includes rooms, to-do list…
Scammers are using AI-generated images to sell fake flower seeds on Etsy and eBay, with one seller's listings including a hosta resembling screaming shrimp and a butterfly-shaped plant. The fraudulent seeds for AI-illust…