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Unconventional AI released Un-0, an image generator powered by a simulated system of coupled oscillators, achieving an FID of 6.74 on class-conditional ImageNet 64×64. The model demonstrates that physical dynamical syste…
Arcwise, a San Francisco-based decision intelligence startup founded in 2022, has raised $1M–$3.4M from Sequoia Capital and Success Venture Partners to build a platform that detects shifts in business metrics and uses tr…
Google is negotiating AI content licensing deals with roughly 20 national news publishers, demanding real money, transparency, and control as regulators like the UK's CMA impose new rules. The talks follow competitor Ope…
Dan Reed's blog post warns that AI is consuming agency budgets, citing an early ChatGPT experiment that wrote NSF summaries as sonnets and haiku, and now AI tools are driving up costs alongside quantum computing.
Hasbro, owner of Peppa Pig, faces backlash after reportedly asking child voice actors to sign contracts allowing AI recreations of their voices. The Agents of Young Performers Association issued an open letter arguing ch…
Hasbro, the owner of the Peppa Pig franchise, is requiring child voice actors to sign contracts that grant rights for AI use of their voices, according to an open letter from the Agents of Young Performers Association. T…
Google Labs open-sourced DESIGN.md, a plain-text format that gives AI coding agents persistent access to a project's visual design system, including tokens and rationale. The format, now at v0.3.0 with over 18,900 GitHub…
Pitara launches a memory layer for daily activities that captures meetings, notes, and documents, organizing them into a searchable private memory. The tool works in the background during meetings without a bot, providin…
Cosmos 3 Super defeated AuraFlow 22.8 to 16.0 in a head-to-head image generation test, consistently outperforming on prompt fidelity for composition, setting, and action cues. AuraFlow lost points for producing images ad…
Airtop, an AI agent platform founded in 2020, automates sales and marketing workflows by enabling users to build code-first agents that interact with websites and services. The company has raised approximately $38.8M–$43…
Hasbro, owner of the Peppa Pig franchise, is requiring child actors to sign away voice rights for AI use in new contracts, sparking backlash from industry advocacy groups. The Agents of Young Performers Association issue…
OpenAI reports that its Codex AI agent now generates 99.8% of all internal output tokens, with non-developer organizational adoption surging 189x since August 2025. Non-developers now make up 20% of Codex users, with fin…
Notion is shutting down its Notion Mail email product on September 22, citing a shift in user behavior toward AI agents managing email workflows. The company will focus on its AI agent offering, as over half of Notion Ma…
Microsoft is introducing skills to Copilot for Excel, enabling teams to scale expertise across workbooks through structured markdown workflows and deterministic financial connectors. This shift from individual expertise …
An AI filmmaking platform developer learned that exposing every model and parameter through an API does not produce great films, as it removes the human creative process. The platform's value lies in guiding users throug…
A new AI-powered chatbot called 'What Would Jesus Say?' allows users to simulate conversations with Jesus and other historical figures, offering a personalized hotline to the AI-generated Jesus.
Leanpub co-founder Len Epp discussed how AI is transforming writing and self-publishing, noting that recent advancements allow users to generate book-length manuscripts quickly through prompting. Leanpub is positioned at…
Flintly, a London-based AI workspace startup founded by Jason Edwards, launched a platform that automates creator and influencer marketing campaigns for brands and agencies. The tool handles briefing, creator matching, c…
Google released its first standalone Finance app for Android, with an iOS version promised later in 2026. The app includes AI-powered features like key moment explanations and a conversational research tool, and the AI-e…
Apple is raising prices across its product lineup, including the MacBook Neo, iPad Air, and M3 Ultra Mac Studio, due to a RAM shortage driven by demand for generative AI. The price increases range from $100 to $1,300, re…