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Harvard University is charging $699 for a bootcamp called The Foundry, which uses LLM-driven avatars modeled after Harvard Business School instructors to simulate board meetings and critique startup pitches in real time.…
Two camera companies published generative AI advertisements this weekend, a move that one commentator says makes no sense for selling cameras. The unnamed companies' use of AI-generated content drew criticism for undermi…
A new essay titled 'AI as a Co-Writer' explores the role of artificial intelligence in collaborative writing, published on the website strawberry9.github.io. The piece discusses how AI can assist authors in generating an…
MacAIApps, a new directory of AI-powered Mac applications, has launched, featuring over 60 tools including Vinaa, an AI chat aggregator, and various transcription, coding, and productivity apps. The directory highlights …
Lightricks released LTX-2.5, a video generation model that uses a 32×32×8 spatiotemporal compression ratio (1:192) and a diffusion-based decoder to avoid blur, achieving an artifact score of 0.28 versus Flux 3's 0.45 and…
A developer argues that becoming an AI-first organization requires understanding the organization's value and operations before applying AI, warning against 'selling smoke' by using AI without meaningful impact. The deve…
Harvard Business School's $699, eight-week HBS Foundry bootcamp for entrepreneurs now uses AI avatars created by startup HeyGen to provide individual feedback during practice pitches and board meetings, supplementing wee…
Anthropic has begun watermarking outputs of its Claude AI model using a scheme based on Google's SynthID and the Gumbel Softmax method proposed by Scott Aaronson in 2022. Aaronson, who credits Anthropic for acknowledging…
Boing Boing is offering lifetime access to ChatPlayground AI's Unlimited Plan for $59.97 through Aug. 25, down from the regular price of $619. The deal lets users compare answers from multiple AI models side by side to s…
Slide-deck.io launched an AI presentation builder that generates full decks from a one-sentence description in 30 seconds, exporting native .pptx files with editable charts and tables. The tool offers 5 free AI credits m…
A wave of AI-detection failures has led to high-profile publishing cancellations, including Hachette's withdrawal of Mia Ballard's horror novel 'Shy Girl' and the cancellation of Jerry Falade's $2 million book deal, as p…
A class action lawsuit filed on August 20, 2026, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California accuses Twitch and Amazon of using creators' streams to train generative AI without permission or compen…
The Neural Image Format (NIF), a deep-learning-based image codec developed by Gabriel Philippus, achieves up to 26.4% lower LPIPS distortion than JPEG at 0.80 bpp on the Kodak24 dataset, with a decode latency of ~202 ms …
Munder Difflin founder Chaitanya Giri said on August 19th that one agent rebuilt his project's blog, created hero illustrations for 119 posts, and deployed the redesign through CI, all for $0. The agent worked inside Cla…
Meta released Muse Code on August 5, a terminal-based AI coding agent powered by its proprietary Muse Spark 1.2 model, which uses parallel sub-agents in isolated git worktrees to handle large codebases. The tool benchmar…
A study from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) found that AI image generators trained on large datasets exhibit 'attribution decay,' where individual training images have no measurable…
A prompt engineering technique that specifies light sources, camera physics, and surface interactions such as subsurface scattering and ambient occlusion produces hyper-realistic AI-generated images, according to a tutor…
A Wikipedia editor, Keith, flagged the Telecom Egypt article as likely AI-generated and created by a spammer who later vandalized, recommending a thorough review. The comment was posted on the talk page at 17:15, 22 Augu…
Microsoft's Visual Studio 2026 v18.9, released August 11, introduces a three-level thinking effort dial for GitHub Copilot to control token usage, a Git review agent for pre-PR code review, and org-level custom agent dis…
Musical Spirograph, a browser-based generative music tool, combines spirograph-style geometric patterns with musical composition, allowing users to create hypnotic, customizable audio-visual doodles. The tool offers six …