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Z.ai released GLM-5.2, a 753-billion parameter open-weights large language model optimized for long-horizon coding tasks. The model features an IndexShare architecture that reduces per-token compute FLOPs by 2.9 times at…
Consulting firm KPMG withdrew a report on Agentic AI after AI detection company GPTZero found it contained AI-generated fabrications and mangled citations. The report, titled 'Total Experience: Redefining Excellence in t…
Odyssey, a world model AI startup founded by self-driving vehicle pioneers, raised $310 million in Series B funding at a $1.45 billion valuation, led by Natural Capital with participation from Amazon, AMD Ventures, and G…
AI coding agents can now generate UI components on demand, but their ability to maintain code over time remains questionable. As dependencies evolve and state management grows complex, the long-term viability of AI-gener…
Google Calendar is rolling out up to 200 custom event colors, replacing the previous 11-color limit, with a full RGB picker on web and API. Google Voice for enterprise adds Gemini-powered 'Take notes for me' for AI trans…
Two 14-year-old boys in Edmonton, Alberta face criminal charges for using artificial intelligence to create sexual exploitation images of female classmates, marking Canada's second such prosecution in six months. The cha…
Charity Majors stated that in 2025, the economics of code production were upended as generating code became effectively free and instant, making lines of code disposable and regenerable instead of treasured and carefully…
Google is shutting down Gemini CLI and Gemini Code Assist for consumer-level users this week as it shifts focus to its new Antigravity CLI tool. The company says the transition addresses user demand for multi-agent workf…
A third-party listing site, ReleaseBB, reported on June 17, 2026, that Aiarty Image Enhancer 3.12 adds deblurring, denoising, face restoration, and upscaling to 4K, 8K, and 32K resolution. The official Aiarty vendor page…
AI crawlers now match Googlebot in traffic to a website that hit the front page of Hacker News, with both categories accounting for 35% of 240,060 bot visits over 30 days. AmazonBot was the most aggressive AI crawler, wh…
OVHcloud acquired Dragon LLM, a Paris-based startup specializing in generative AI for regulated industries, and launched a dedicated AI lab to build sovereign large language models. The move positions the French cloud pr…
Google announced the $99.99 Google Home Speaker, its first standalone smart speaker since 2020, powered by Gemini AI for natural language and multi-step requests. The device offers free AI features for six months, then r…
Epic Games announced Unreal Engine 6, merging Unreal Engine 5 and the Unreal Editor for Fortnite into a unified product, introducing the Verse programming language and Scene Graph gameplay framework. The engine will inte…
GitHub has made auto model selection generally available in Copilot Chat on github.com and the GitHub mobile app for all Copilot plans. The feature dynamically routes requests to models like Claude Sonnet 4.6, GPT-5.4 mi…
Alphabet Inc.'s Google announced that its $100 Google Home Speaker with Gemini AI integration will be available starting June 25, with preorders beginning Wednesday. The device is Google's first product to ship with the …
Adam, a Y Combinator W25 startup, launched CADAM, an open-source AI-powered CAD tool that generates parametric 3D models from natural language or images in a browser. The tool exports to STL, SCAD, and DXF formats and in…
GitHub launched Agentic Workflows in public preview on June 11, allowing developers to write CI automation in plain English instead of YAML. The feature lets users create Markdown files describing tasks for AI agents, wh…
Zkit, a set of Go libraries for building AI agents, has been released as open-source software. The libraries provide modular components including a streaming runner, tool dispatch, guardrails, compaction, and provider ad…
Midjourney is revealing its first hardware project at a live event in San Francisco on June 17, 2025, with a livestream available for remote viewers. CEO David Holz, who previously co-founded Leap Motion, is leading the …
A developer created an interactive predictor to demonstrate how large language models generate text by repeatedly predicting the next word. The tool illustrates that the core mechanism is a loop of prediction, selection,…