Generative AI

General Atlantic is in talks to lead a funding round for Kling AI, the video arm of Chinese tech group Kuaishou, at an $18 billion valuation. The deal faces political risks as Beijing has instructed Chinese AI firms to r…

A European retail association has asked EU tech chief Virkkunen to exempt AI-generated advertisements from disclosure requirements in the EU AI Act, arguing that ads not intended to mislead users should be excluded. The …

A developer has created a third-party tool called Shortcuts Playground that lets users build Apple Shortcuts using generative AI, ahead of Apple's official feature in macOS 27. The tool, built by Federico Viticci, runs o…

A European retail association is lobbying for AI-generated advertising to be exempt from the EU AI Act's transparency rules, arguing that labeling all AI-produced commercial content imposes a disproportionate compliance …

Runway's AI Festival at Lincoln Center on June 11 screened 10 AI-generated short films, with the $50,000 Grand Prix awarded to Robert Gaudette, a Toronto nonprofit worker with no formal film training, for 'A Face Only a …

Higgsfield launched Supercomputer 2.0, an enterprise marketing automation agent built on NVIDIA’s Agent Toolkit, claiming 78% of Fortune 500 companies use its platform. The AI video startup says the system can run entire…

Generative AI has transformed code production, but organizations building multiple applications face a challenge: AI methods guarantee a generic state of the art, not the organization's own contextual standards. Three ap…

A developer found that switching AI code review tools mid-sprint cost roughly a day of lost productivity due to context-switching overhead. The engineer's analysis of 34 AI-assisted commits showed 2.1x longer messages wi…

Google's AI Mode, with one billion monthly active users, sends visitors who have already researched and decided, yet most websites remain built for undecided browsers. Adobe data shows AI-referred traffic converts 42% ab…

Amazon made the managed agent harness in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore generally available at AWS Summit New York on June 17, enabling developers to deploy production-grade AI agents using a config file instead of custom orch…

An anonymous developer has issued an open challenge to build a single-player generative RPG in Godot within one year that surpasses The Witcher series in all aspects, including endless procedural content and advanced AI.…

Runway's AI film festival at Lincoln Center showcased 10 short films created almost entirely with AI, drawing a crowd of tech enthusiasts. Despite visually impressive results, many films suffered from weak storytelling, …

At the APOS 2026 conference in Bali, executives emphasized that intellectual property ownership, AI infrastructure, and sports fandom are driving Asia's entertainment industry into a new era of sustainable growth. Netfli…

Bayer AG and Thoughtworks developed the Preclinical Information Center (PRINCE), a cloud-hosted platform using Agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation and Text-to-SQL to integrate decades of safety study reports for drug …

Appaca launches an AI workspace that lets operators build custom business apps, such as CRMs and internal tools, by describing their needs in natural language. The platform includes AI agents, a knowledge base, and integ…

AI is not replacing entire jobs but specific tasks, devaluing mechanical work while increasing the importance of judgment and unique skills. Professionals who rely on repetitive tasks lose out, while those with expertise…

Subrata Kumar Das published a lesson on Generative AI as part of a new course, explaining the evolution from traditional rule-based software to modern AI agents. The lesson covers the shift from predictive AI to generati…

A developer tracked writing output over 90 days and found that switching from Obsidian-first drafting to Claude-first drafting nearly doubled usable words per 90-minute block, from 420 to 780. However, the AI drafting in…

L'Oreal Group announced a strategic collaboration with OpenAI at Viva Technology, aiming to integrate AI across beauty shopping, research, and marketing. The partnership includes AI-powered consumer experiences via ChatG…

Several authors, including Anthony Horowitz, are openly using AI tools like ChatGPT for research and writing assistance, challenging the stigma against AI in publishing. A Cambridge study found that a third of UK novelis…