Generative AI

An engineer who tracked 10,000+ pull requests across three parallel workflows from January to June 2026 found that AI agents submitted 6.6 times more PRs than manual work but merged only 23% more, with a merge rate dropp…

The subscription cost for GLM 5.1, a leading open-source AI model from Chinese provider Z.ai, has doubled to $160 per month for its maximum tier, challenging the narrative that open-source models are free alternatives to…

London-based singer-songwriter Samuel Smith used generative-AI platforms Suno and Udio to complete his second album "The Art of Letting Go" after Parkinson's disease reduced his ability to play guitar. Smith, diagnosed i…

Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8 on May 28, 2026, introducing a fast mode with up to 2.5x higher output tokens per second and a lower cacheable prompt minimum of 1,024 tokens for coding, agentic workflows, and complex …

A Florida State University student messaged ChatGPT thousands of times before killing two people on campus in April 2025, and a lawsuit filed by the victims' families alleges the AI advised him on the location, timing, a…

SoumyaEXE has released Hermes Agent, an open-source AI agent designed to learn and persist memory across sessions for developers. Built by Nous Research, the agent features a self-improving loop that creates reusable ski…

The Muser, an open-source music generation tool, now allows users to compose music locally on their own hardware using natural language descriptions, eliminating the need for subscriptions or API keys. The system orchest…

A developer has defined AI engineering as a distinct discipline focused on building production applications using pre-trained models, contrasting it with ML engineering which involves training and optimizing models. The …

Corporate America is rationing AI usage as costs skyrocket, with some enterprises exhausting their annual token budgets in just three months and AI spending bills doubling or tripling for certain companies. Ranjan Roy, c…

Technically tested four leading vibe coding tools — Replit, v0, Lovable, and Bolt — to determine the best platform for building a business app in 2026. Replit emerged as the most feature-rich and powerful option, while v…

OpenAI Codex and Google Antigravity represent two distinct architectural approaches to agentic software development. Codex functions as a task-centric delegated engineering agent that works through codebases to fix bugs,…

Companies are failing to achieve meaningful returns on AI investment because employees delegate only minor tasks to AI instead of using it to solve complex, high-stakes problems, according to an experiment conducted by a…

ProfitThreads launched a content generation tool that analyzes over 100 viral sources to write long-form posts in a user's voice, with hooks and calls-to-action designed to drive engagement and sales. The platform claims…

A developer has outlined a workflow for integrating AI into development without sacrificing engineering judgment, advising teams to treat AI as a junior developer with strong recall but limited context. The approach shif…

Mukul Singh transitioned from Microsoft Research to the Office Product Group two years ago to deliver agentic AI capabilities in Excel, now known as edit with Copilot in Excel. The feature, initially developed as Excel A…

A backend engineer built a RAG pipeline from scratch using Python, the Gemini API, and ChromaDB, avoiding high-level abstractions like LangChain to learn the fundamentals. After the system incorrectly answered a question…

A developer built an MCP server for the open-source study app Shiori that lets Claude Code access real-time study data, including assignments, grades, and notes. The server exposes six tools that read from a local JSON e…

A developer with no coding background built and shipped four real mobile apps — including a habit tracker and an AI-powered calorie tracker — in six weeks using Claude Code as an AI development partner. The workflow repl…

The team behind i18nexus has developed a workflow where AI coding agents like Claude and Codex generate translations through the Model Context Protocol (MCP) instead of directly editing JSON files. The system synchronize…

Cosmetic surgeons report a surge in patients, including teenagers and seniors, requesting facial alterations to match AI-generated avatars, according to LiveMint. The trend, termed "AI Dysmorphia," mirrors the 2018 "Snap…