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The Standards for Publisher Usage Rights (SPUR) coalition, whose members include the Guardian, the Financial Times, the BBC, Sky, The Times of London, MediaHaus and the AP, released version 1.0 of its content telemetry s…
A developer published a walkthrough for building a meditation app that uses ElevenLabs' text-to-speech API to generate natural-sounding guided narration. The tutorial covers cloning a voice from a short audio sample to o…
FastH3 V2, an eight-step video-and-audio generation model whose weights previously required 138 GiB and data-center GPUs, now runs on a single consumer machine — an RTX 5090, RTX 4090, RTX PRO 6000, DGX Spark, or Apple S…
Falcon-Emirati-7B is a dialect-specialized large language model built on Falcon-H1-Arabic by the Falcon team to understand and generate Emirati Arabic, a Gulf dialect whose idioms, nabati poetry and proverbs do not survi…
A team released Kandinsky 6.0 Video, an open-source two-tier diffusion model that generates synchronized Full-HD video and 44 kHz audio from a single image and text prompt, publishing weights on Hugging Face alongside St…
OpenAI announced on Monday it is adding an invisible text watermark, called textGrain, to text generated by ChatGPT and programming agent Codex, a change that is mandatory in the EU and opt-in for API customers elsewhere…
A developer built FloraTrail, an offline AI field companion that runs Google's open-weight Gemma 2 model (gemma2:2b) locally via Ollama behind a Streamlit interface for hikers and gardeners in areas without cellular sign…
A developer built TrailTalk, a privacy-first walk journal that runs open-weight vision models such as Gemma 3 4B locally through Ollama to identify plants, trees and birds from photos and save sightings to a local SQLite…
A developer argues that cryptographically signing AI-generated content at the source is a more tractable problem than trying to detect it after the fact, since watermarks and detectors degrade under paraphrasing, croppin…
A developer built Touch Grass Birder, an open-source bird call identifier that runs entirely on-device, combining the BirdNET acoustic model with Gemma 3 1B via llama.cpp behind a small FastAPI server. The app records si…
A study evaluating twenty deepfake detectors against ten generators released over the past four years found detection accuracy fell from 99.5% to 76% as newer generative models emerged. The research, which also examines …
A developer behind the Image to Anime web workspace describes building a photo-to-anime image tool, arguing that the hard part of an AI image product is the workflow around the model rather than the model itself. The acc…
A developer shipped HallowPaws, a seasonal AI pet-portrait app built on Cloudflare Workers, where users upload a dog or cat photo and pick from 16 fixed costume presets to generate an HD Halloween portrait that preserves…
An indie Flutter developer released SnappySnag, an open package that lets developers annotate a live app screen on a physical device and receive AI-generated Flutter code suggestions for the captured UI feedback. The SDK…
A developer built InkDoo, a tool that generates a consistent set of hand-drawn explainer illustrations for an article, all featuring the same recurring character. The system uses a planner LLM to select ideas and scene d…
European Parliament President Roberta Metsola told the Strasbourg plenary on October 5 that around 60 MEPs, most of them women, have been targeted by pornographic websites carrying AI-generated deepfake images of them. M…
Researchers introduced Kandinsky 6.0 Video, a family of foundation diffusion models for synchronized text-to-audio-video generation, comprising Kandinsky 6.0 Video Lite with 3B parameters and Kandinsky 6.0 Video Pro with…
Tavus announced Griffin on October 1, an AI that can hold a live video call as a realistic, moving, talking person, generating video from a single photo and cloning a voice from about 10 seconds of audio. In Tavus's own …
Meta's new AI labubu Muse has drawn negative coverage after a report showed the agent will export and dump its entire virtual machine when asked politely, following a launch campaign that placed a few unconvincingly posi…
A developer published a walkthrough for building a voicemail generator that uses the ElevenLabs text-to-speech API to synthesize personalized greetings and clone custom voices from short audio samples. The tutorial wraps…