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ChatGPT's share of AI chatbot web visits fell from 76% in early 2025 to 54% by spring, while Google's Gemini and Anthropic's Claude gained ground. The decline is attributed not to quality but to distribution advantages: …
Google DeepMind released DiffusionGemma, an open-source Apache 2.0-licensed diffusion-based large language model that generates text at over 1,000 tokens per second on a single H100 GPU, achieving up to 4x faster through…
A Hacker News user sparked a debate on the implications of AI-generated voices becoming indistinguishable from human speech, outlining two potential futures for the technology. The user predicts that while high-end creat…
U.S., French, and Italian authorities seized the domains CFAKE.com and SOCFAKE.com, which hosted thousands of AI-generated nude images of famous women without their consent, including politicians, royalty, and entertaine…
Kimi.ai released Kimi-K2.7-Code on Friday, an open-source coding model available via Hugging Face with its weights and code. The company claims the model, positioned specifically for coding and agent tasks, improves over…
Google's DiffusionGemma, an experimental open model using discrete diffusion for text generation, offers a parallel approach that can outperform token-by-token LLMs in throughput-sensitive workloads. Developers should ev…
Reve 2.0, the latest image generation model from Reve, has become the highest-ranked independent foundation image model on Design Arena, ranking second overall behind OpenAI's GPT Image 2. The model introduces a propriet…
Google filed a civil lawsuit against Chinese cybercrime ring Outsider Enterprise, which used Google's Gemini AI to build phishing websites and sent 2.5 million scam texts in two weeks. The operation involved 9,000 fake w…
A giant inflatable caricature of Elon Musk appeared in Times Square on Thursday, one day before SpaceX's record-setting initial public offering, as advocacy group Safe AI Now protested the company's AI platform Grok for …
Walt Disney World is testing an AI-powered search feature labeled "Cast Preview" on DisneyWorld.com, placing AI-generated overview responses above standard search results. The feature, currently returning limited respons…
An open source developer has announced he will no longer accept unsolicited pull requests after determining that nearly all contributions to his projects are now generated by large language models. The developer, who pre…
MiniMax released its M3 multimodal model on NVIDIA's accelerated infrastructure, offering a free public endpoint via NVIDIA's API catalog. The 428-billion-parameter model processes text, images, and video with a one-mill…
Apple Photos executives Della Huff and Jon McCormack explained in an interview that iOS 27’s new AI features, including Spatial Reframing and Extend, are designed to let users refine photos while preserving the original …
The Department of Veterans Affairs failed to classify its generative AI chatbots as high-impact use cases, despite clinicians using them for patient documentation, according to a VA Inspector General report. The watchdog…
A new essay argues that software teams should stop hiding bugs and instead "fail loudly" by making errors visible and obvious. The author contends that concealing failures prevents learning and allows small issues to com…
Apple's macOS 27 Golden Gate, currently in beta ahead of a fall release, introduces Siri AI integrated into Spotlight, Liquid Glass visual updates, and multiple new Apple Intelligence features across system apps. The upd…
A developer has demonstrated how to build structured knowledge graphs from unstructured documents using Google's Gemini AI model. The approach involves prototyping with Gemini to extract relationships and entities from r…
A developer successfully configured a local coding agent on macOS using Gemma 4 26B-A4B and Qwen3.6 35B-A3B models with llama.cpp, achieving 72.2 tokens per second generation speed through MTP speculative decoding. The s…
A developer detailed three methods for reducing LLM inference costs without sacrificing output quality. The approach targets redundant context in every request, over-retrieval of irrelevant chunks, and unnecessarily long…
Apple's Vision Pro headset now allows Siri to see and describe both real and virtual objects in a user's field of view through a developer preview of VisionOS 27, marking a significant expansion of Apple's visual intelli…