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A developer who writes commercial copy for a living has shipped Cencurity, an open-source security gateway that proxies traffic between AI coding agents and LLM providers to mask sensitive data and inspect generated code…
A software developer who spent 20 hours and generated roughly 190 pages of chat logs experimenting with AI-assisted writing has coined the term 'vibe writing' to describe a workflow where a human directs a large language…
Aivolut Books, an AI-powered book-writing platform, is offering a lifetime Pro plan for $424.14 (regularly $2,376) with code SAVE15, enabling users to turn book ideas into complete manuscripts and prepare them for Amazon…
Anthropic announced it is rolling out watermarking for all Claude outputs, including text, to comply with the EU Code of Practice, with no additional cost to users. The move has sparked significant backlash, which Zvi Mo…
Sublime Text's AI ecosystem is expanding in 2026 with several new tools offering different approaches to AI-assisted coding. The developer of Limitcode, an open-source pair programming agent for Sublime Text, compares it…
Google announced on Friday that its Google app will soon let users customize their Discovery feed using natural language prompts, powered by Gemini, such as "show me kitchen renovation tips and ideas," with the feature r…
Reddit Inc. has discussed cutting off Google LLC's access to its content when their approximately $60 million annual AI training deal expires, according to The Wall Street Journal, and Reddit's stock closed down 8.32% on…
A new survey by The Turing Institute finds that British Gen Z (ages 18-24) trusts AI less than Boomers, with 74% supporting mandatory watermarking on AI-generated media and 61% backing licensing for frontier models. The …
ChatOn Multi-AI Assistant Premium Plan, which provides access to GPT, Gemini, Claude, Sonar, and other AI models, is available for new users at $29.99 for a one-year subscription. The app includes 100+ ready-made prompts…
An unnamed AI newsroom has been producing articles about the AI industry without disclosing that no human wrote them, prompting journalist and founder Maquetaurie to launch Areyto, a transparent synthetic newsroom where …
Pew Research Center reports that one-in-ten webpages in a random sample of 10,000 collected in July 2026 show signs of being written or substantially edited by AI, a trend that began with ChatGPT's release in late 2022. …
Google released Gemma 4, a multimodal AI model family, with documentation, model cards, and checkpoints available on Hugging Face, alongside specialized variants including DiffusionGemma, EmbeddingGemma, FunctionGemma, M…
Microsoft has launched MAI-Image-2.6, its latest first-party image-generation model, which now ranks No. 2 on Arena's text-to-image leaderboard and No. 3 for image editing. The model is available in MAI Playground and in…
Boing Boing published an essay arguing that the debate over whether AI-assisted writing counts as cheating is misguided, suggesting the question itself is backward. The piece highlights the polarized public reactions to …
Microsoft has expanded its MAI Playground, a limited-preview environment for testing its MAI family of models, now including image generation, voice, transcription, and reasoning capabilities. The move provides a public …
OpenAI launched a plugin for Apple Messages on Thursday that lets ChatGPT on a Mac search text messages, draft replies, and send them, sparking a debate about AI's role in personal communication. The feature, available i…
DeepSeek released V4-Flash-Vision-Exp, a multimodal model that outperforms its text-only predecessor on agent benchmarks, scoring 83.9 on Terminal Bench 2.1 (up from 82.7) and 59.3 on DeepSWE (up from 54.4), while priced…
A study by Nielsen Norman Group with 77 U.S. adults found that AI-generated images on a fictional consulting firm's website did not reduce perceived trustworthiness, professionalism, or authenticity compared to real stoc…
Amazon Web Services (AWS) introduced a query-aware compression pattern for Amazon Bedrock that reduces input tokens sent to foundation models in Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) applications, cutting costs while pres…
Researchers have used AI models to design complete genomes for viable bacteriophages, marking the first time AI has generated viruses not found in nature. The models produced about 700,000 potential designs, from which 2…