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Croatian open-source grocery price tracker Cijene reduced its shopping cart optimization time from 5 seconds to 1.2 milliseconds by rewriting the backend with GitHub Copilot. The project, which won first place at a natio…
Apple is expected to announce generative AI upgrades to Siri at its Worldwide Developers Conference, which could make the HomePod smart speaker more competitive against rivals like Sonos and Bose. A smarter Siri could im…
A user asked ChatGPT to build a free PDF editor that removes yellow backgrounds from scanned sheet music after discovering that ChatGPT's direct PDF edits were non-deterministic and risked altering the musical notes. The…
SEO professionals must adapt to AI-generated search results that reduce click-through rates and obscure the buyer's journey, as traditional attribution models fail to capture influence without a website visit. Brands can…
Omnistrate hosted an event at the Amazon office in San Francisco focused on the challenges generative AI poses for commercial open source companies. Speakers from Zep and Scalar discussed how Omnistrate's "Control Plane …
AI startup Quilty claims its tool can predict a film's box office success by analyzing scripts, but early tests have drawn skepticism after it rated the script for the flop *Christy* higher than the Oscar-winning blockbu…
Artist Trevor Paglen has published a new book, *How to See Like a Machine: Images After AI*, arguing that machine learning has fundamentally altered the function of images, creating an "indexical flip" where any photogra…
Arm announced several Arm-based innovations in May 2026, including new profiling tools for AI and cloud workloads through Arm Performix, which helps developers optimize workloads on Arm Neoverse platforms like Google Clo…
Pinterest committed $4 billion to Amazon Web Services for cloud services through 2031, the largest infrastructure deal in the company's history, to power AI-driven visual search and personalization for its 600 million mo…
GitLab laid off approximately 350 employees, or 14% of its workforce, as part of a restructuring to scale its platform for AI workloads. The company is exiting 22 countries and flattening management layers while investin…
Anthropic staff are embedded at the National Security Agency, helping the agency use the company's Mythos AI model for offensive cyberattacks, according to a Financial Times report. The model, which Anthropic deemed too …
A Google engineer discovered that using NotebookLM, a generative AI tool from Google, transformed their workflow by allowing them to upload documents and query a private knowledge base in seconds during client meetings. …
Users are increasingly delegating decision-making tasks to AI tools instead of conducting traditional multi-source research, driven by a desire for cognitive ease and faster outcomes. This shift from retrieval to delegat…
Financial services leaders from Morgan Stanley, JPMorganChase, Mastercard, RBC Capital Markets, and First American will present at the Data + AI Summit 2026 in San Francisco, sharing strategies on AI transformation, resp…
A growing number of Indian AI researchers in Silicon Valley are seeking to return to India, driven by U.S. layoffs and tightening immigration policies under the Trump administration. Indian startups and global firms expa…
Cloudflare announced spend controls for its AI Gateway, including identity-driven budgets and routing, to help companies manage escalating AI costs. The new features allow businesses to set dollar-based budgets, track sp…
Lloyds Banking Group presented a practical security playbook for agentic AI at the OWASP GenAI Security Summit during Infosecurity Europe, framing security as its 12th "bet" alongside 11 AI and innovation initiatives. Th…
Syndio CEO Bob O'Donnell built three custom AI agents after completing a six-week executive course, moving beyond basic productivity tools to systems that reason alongside him and challenge his decisions. The agents, tra…
LinkedIn engineers Karthik Ramgopal and Prince Valluri presented a new AI-driven execution model for engineering at the company, shifting from human-manual coordination to systems that interpret human intent and execute …
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar stated at the Liquidity Summit 2026 that she would not hire a finance professional who lacks proficiency in AI tools like Codex, signaling that AI literacy is now a baseline requirement in finance …