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AethexAI, a voice AI startup founded by former Goldman Sachs and Meta employees, has raised $3 million in pre-seed funding to build voice AI tailored for Africa and the Middle East. The company developed its own small mo…
The U.K. has imposed legal guardrails on Google's AI search features, requiring the tech giant to offer publishers an opt-out toggle for generative AI results. Google announced compliance Wednesday, allowing website owne…
ChatGPT became the fastest app to reach 1 billion monthly active users in May, achieving the milestone three years after launch and outpacing platforms like TikTok and Instagram, according to Sensor Tower data. Meanwhile…
Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is leading a $55 million Series A investment round in Town, a startup developing a personal AI assistant that learns user behavior across email, calendar, and messaging app…
Moderators of the r/biohackers subreddit announced a ban on new posts about peptides and hormone replacement therapy, citing systematic manipulation by companies seeking to influence AI chatbot answers. The companies hav…
Pandorian has released a tool designed to close the gap between engineering standards and AI-generated code, as 42% of committed code now includes AI assistance and 45% of AI-generated code introduces security vulnerabil…
Gustavo Quenca, an iOS developer at KWAN, identified a recurring problem with AI coding assistants: developers waste time repeating the same context and instructions for each new interaction. To solve this, he advocates …
Google announced a new toggle in Search Console allowing website owners to opt out of appearing in AI Overviews, AI Mode, and other generative AI search features. The company stated the opt-out will not affect a site's r…
Blackmagic Design released DaVinci Resolve 21, adding a dedicated Photo page for still image color grading and introducing AI tools for facial de-aging, blemish removal, and content-based media search. The update also in…
Suno, the AI song generator led by CEO Mikey Shulman, announced it raised over $400 million in Series D funding at a $5.4 billion post-money valuation. Bond Capital led the round, with participation from IVP, Forerunner,…
OpenAI's official ChatGPT app for macOS updated to version 1.2026.119, according to a ReleaseBB listing published June 3, 2026. The 69.3 MB update includes access to GPT-5, memory features, and voice input via the Whispe…
A developer created a custom status bar for the Antigravity CLI that displays real-time model information, token usage, and quota limits for Gemini, Claude, and GPT models. The bash script reads a JSON payload and output…
Meta introduced the "Meta Business Agent" tool at its Conversations event in London, enabling businesses on WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger to delegate customer interactions, appointment booking, and sales tasks to AI…
A widely shared figure from Entelligence AI reports that companies spend approximately 44% of their AI coding token budget fixing bugs generated by the same AI, with only about 18 cents of every dollar spent on tokens re…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg hired 28-year-old start-up founder Alexandr Wang a year ago to overhaul the company's struggling artificial intelligence division, betting on an outsider's urgency over veteran researchers. Wang …
GitHub released the May 2026 updates for Copilot in Visual Studio Code, introducing the Agents window as a stable preview feature for task-oriented coding and expanding bring-your-own-key (BYOK) model support to air-gapp…
Nikko has released a web search Gemini Gem V1, an autonomous research agent designed to produce well-sourced reports by systematically searching, evaluating, and triangulating information across multiple sources. The too…
A user sent an empty message to Claude Opus 4.8 Max, and the AI model responded with a detailed critique of the message's lack of content, calling it "wearing content-clothes" with no actual substance. The June 2, 2026 e…
Google is testing a new option that allows website owners to opt their content out of appearing in the company's generative AI Search features, the company announced Wednesday. The test, launching with a small group of U…
Apple is expected to announce WatchOS 27 at its Worldwide Developers Conference on June 8, focusing on refinements like improved heart-rate tracking and battery life rather than a major overhaul. The update may bring the…