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Josh, a new partner at A16Z, announced that the AI wave is opening new opportunities for consumer startups, drawing on his experience building Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Robinhood. He believes AI-first consumer app…
ChatGPT and Gemini secretly perform traditional web searches in the background to generate answers, and a new free tool called QueryFan reveals exactly which searches each model triggers. Analysis shows that Reddit's cit…
NVIDIA released the BioNeMo Agent Toolkit to enable AI scientists to perform biomolecular research by integrating accelerated digital-biology tools as agent-callable services. The platform provides NIM-optimized models a…
Google is investing $75 million into A24 as part of an AI research partnership to create AI tools for moviemaking, sparking backlash from fans who view the deal as a betrayal of the studio's artist-driven ethos.
Meta launched new smart glasses starting at $299, dropping the Ray-Ban and Oakley branding while maintaining the same features. The glasses include a Kylie Jenner collaboration model at $399. Meta leads the smart glasses…
Stockholm-based startup Fika Jobs raised $4 million in pre-seed funding to build a video-first hiring platform where AI agents interview candidates and create short-form video profiles. The platform aims to help employer…
NVIDIA announced the BioNeMo Agent Toolkit, a suite of domain-specific tools and skills for AI agents in life sciences, enabling faster scientific discovery. More than 50 companies, including Dassault Systèmes, Lilly, an…
A new AI model matching Opus 4.8-level performance is now available for free local execution, according to a newsletter. The update also includes OpenRouter Fusion, GLM-5.2 local deployment, and Loop Engineering, marking…
ByteDance unveiled Seedance 2.5, an AI video model capable of generating single clips up to 30 seconds long with scene changes and tempo shifts, at its Volcano Engine FORCE conference. The model, launching in early July,…
Developer Gary Sheng used Claude Code to redesign his iPhone app Simple Meds, which he originally built with GPT-4o and Cursor a year ago. The redesign leverages Claude Opus 4.7 and newer AI agents to improve the app's v…
Organizations are losing institutional knowledge due to AI-driven layoffs, a phenomenon called organizational amnesia. Without proper transition plans, AI systems lack context and can disrupt operations, as seen in layof…
A new analysis warns that the rapid deployment of AI tools in enterprises is creating a hidden cost: the need for extensive governance, oversight, and risk management. While CIOs push for productivity gains from AI, the …
The Oversight Board overturned Meta's decision to keep an AI-generated sexualized deepfake video on Instagram, ruling it violates the company's policy against non-consensual intimate imagery. The Board called for stronge…
Meta's Oversight Board has called on the company to strengthen protections for ordinary people targeted by sexualized deepfakes, recommending that AI-generated impersonations be added to its Adult Sexual Exploitation pol…
Agentic AI systems autonomously plan, execute, and adapt multi-step workflows to achieve specific goals with minimal human intervention, distinguishing them from traditional AI models that respond to single prompts. Thes…
AWS launched Blocks, an open-source TypeScript framework in public preview, designed for AI agents to build backends with local-first development and zero-infrastructure-code deployment to AWS services. The framework bun…
Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is an AI architecture that connects large language models to external knowledge sources at inference time, enabling accurate, context-aware responses beyond static training data. The …
Kansai Electric Power Group's CIO Akio Ueda argues that successful AI adoption requires collaboration between humans and AI, not replacement, as outlined in the company's DX Vision 2035. Ueda emphasizes that AI excels at…
Alibaba released HappyHorse 1.1, an upgraded video generation model with improved motion dynamics, subject consistency, and audio generation, and launched the HorsePower AI Video Competition with Huajing Entertainment Gr…
Anyone can use generative AI to create a demo, but building a production-ready product requires significant investment in infrastructure, safety, compliance, and evaluation, according to a LeadDev.com article. The model …