Generative AI

Former Google distinguished engineer Kelsey Hightower said AI is not replacing software engineers, only those whose sole skill is coding. In a Wednesday podcast interview, Hightower argued that developers who lack skills…

The IAB UK forecasts that AI-driven advertising spend in the UK will reach approximately £18bn by 2030, accounting for 32% of total digital ad spend. The report found that 58% of IAB UK members are experimenting with age…

On June 3, 2026, Gopuff and SpaceXAI launched Go, a Grok-powered personal shopping assistant integrated into the Gopuff app. The assistant combines SpaceXAI's reasoning, voice, and image-generation models with Gopuff's o…

Bank ABB launched two conversational AI banking assistants, AI-nur and AI-khan, in its mobile app, with The Manila Times reporting over 230,000 users and 2.5 million interactions since release. The assistants enable voic…

MSI demonstrated its MEG Vision X2 AI desktop PC at Computex 2026, featuring a glass cylinder that projects a 3D hologram of the company's dragon mascot, LuckyClaw, as an AI assistant. The hologram, powered by cloud-base…

Rankpage, a Malaysia-founded AI SEO agency, expanded its operations into Singapore on June 4, 2026, bringing its AI-led search optimization framework to local brands. The move targets visibility across Google and AI-driv…

Walmart placed usage limits on its internal AI coding tool, Code Puppy, to reduce duplicative tasks and control rising costs, the company's global CTO said Wednesday. The retail giant's tech chief, Suresh Kumar, told rep…

A developer's analysis of LLM fine-tuning versus retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) finds that roughly 70% of production LLM problems are solved by better prompting or RAG, with fine-tuning reserved for the remaining 3…

GitHub has transitioned all Copilot plans to a usage-based billing model, ending the era of flat $10 monthly fees. The platform now meters premium requests, model access, and AI consumption, treating advanced workflows l…

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told congressional leaders and White House officials on June 3 that the company has not engaged in a "massive lobbying campaign," despite OpenAI spending $1.02 million on federal lobbying in the fir…

Miso Labs released MisoTTS, an open-weights 8-billion-parameter text-to-speech model that generates expressive speech from text and audio context. The model uses residual vector quantization to expand its sonic range wit…

Elon Musk's xAI released Grok Imagine Video 1.5 in preview, an image-to-video model that generates short 720p videos from a single still image. Users control camera movement, pacing, and atmosphere through text prompts w…

Eduonix is offering a Claude AI Professional E-Degree for $19.99, reduced from $49, to train professionals in hands-on applications of Anthropic's AI assistant. The self-paced online program covers advanced prompt engine…

Crystal Dynamics, Flying Wild Hog, and Amazon Game Studios announced that *Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis* will release on February 12, 2027, but the game has sparked controversy for using generative AI during developme…

More than 60% of U.S. adults used AI in the first half of 2025, yet consumer AI spending remained flat at roughly $12 billion, according to a VC Cafe column by Eze Vidra citing Menlo Ventures data. ChatGPT reached nearly…

Cathie Wood's Ark Invest purchased 267,582 shares of Alphabet, Google's parent company, for approximately $96 million on June 3-4, bringing its total stake to roughly 720,000 shares worth $256 million. The acquisition ma…

Labour MP Jess Asato filed a High Court claim on 3 June against xAI, arguing the company is directly liable for sexualised deepfake images of her that users generated with its Grok AI tool. The lawsuit tests whether an A…

A developer used GitHub Copilot to expand VoiceAssist AI, a multilingual voice assistant for Indian bank counters, from 6 to 8 languages by adding Kannada and Urdu support. Copilot automatically generated a pull request …

GitHub's new token-based billing for Copilot, effective June 1, 2026, introduces a 24x price gap between the cheapest and most expensive models, according to an engineer's analysis of the pricing tables. Running the same…

Snapchat announced a 10x increase in advertisers in India over two years, driven by immersive ad formats, AI targeting, and high-attention Chat ads. With 250 million users, the platform is capitalizing on Gen Z's $2 tril…