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Google's AI-generated answers now dominate search results, leaving brands with little visibility into how the technology describes them to customers. On TechCrunch's Equity podcast, Scrunch VP of partnerships Matt Thomps…
A developer has outlined a structured prompting strategy for AI coding tools that can produce production-ready code in seconds rather than broken outputs requiring hours of cleanup. The approach breaks prompts into three…
Microsoft released MAI-Image-2.5, an update to its image generation model that now ranks third on Arena's text-to-image leaderboard, tying with Google's Nano Banana 2. The model delivers significant improvements in text …
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman acknowledged that the default personality of ChatGPT, used by 900 million people weekly, is the company's most impactful product decision yet lacks any scientific framework. Altman said he has enlis…
At Google I/O 2026, Google announced the integration of AI agents across its product lineup, releasing Gemini 3.5 Flash and previewing Gemini 3.5 Pro and Gemini Omni. The company also introduced Gemini Spark, a personal …
Boris Cherny, creator of Anthropic's Claude Code, told 22-year-old computer science graduates on the "Platformer" podcast to "go start a startup," calling the current moment a "golden age" for new ventures. Cherny said t…
OpenAI is partnering with The Associated Press and Democracy Works to provide live vote counts and reliable voting information, aiming to combat AI-driven election misinformation ahead of upcoming elections in the US and…
Kafka provides AI pipelines with async decoupling, replayability, and backpressure to handle variable latency and concurrency spikes, while Zilla adds JWT identity, schemas, access filtering, and SSE to make Kafka AI-rea…
The AI tool landscape in mid-2026 spans eight major categories with clear market leaders and intense competition, as ChatGPT maintains 5.5 billion monthly visits but faces challenges from Gemini and specialized tools. Th…
A developer tested five AI coding tools over 30 days, including GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, and Aider, using real commands on a Linux environment where possible. Claude Code installed in under 10 secon…
Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan's nonprofit Biohub released an open-source suite of three AI models for protein biology, including the ESM Atlas covering 6.8 billion proteins, as part of its $500 million Virtual Biolo…
A developer built ForSocials as a Chrome extension to embed AI tools directly into the browser workflow, eliminating the need for context switching. The project aims to reduce friction by keeping users within their exist…
ClickHouse announced at its Open House 2026 conference that its serverless cloud offering has surpassed $250 million in annual run-rate revenue, more than tripling year-over-year, and added over 1,000 net new customers s…
OpenAI is prohibiting political advertisements on its platform during the current election cycle, explicitly banning ads that promote or oppose political figures, ballot measures, or socially contested issues. The policy…
YouTube will begin automatically labeling AI-generated videos with more prominent markers, moving beyond its previous system that relied entirely on uploaders to disclose AI use. The platform will use "new internal signa…
Repoprompt, a tool designed to curate code context for AI models, is transitioning to an open-source model. The tool's developer announced the move on July 16, 2024, citing the need to make the manual context-curation wo…
AI inference provider Baseten is in talks to raise $1 billion at an $11 billion valuation, according to a person familiar with the matter. The company, valued at $5 billion earlier this year, reported annualized revenue …
Google shipped Gemini 3.5 Flash on May 19 at Google I/O 2026, claiming four times faster output tokens per second compared to other frontier models. The model, positioned as the fast tier in the 3.5 family, scored 76.2% …
Sanofi has built its own internal AI ecosystem called Concierge, used by 60,000 employees, after its chief digital officer deemed existing enterprise AI tools "lame" and limited in value. The French pharmaceutical giant …
Nick Lane-Smith's team abandoned Framer for their Babou marketing site after discovering the visual design tool could not compete with AI agents for operational workflows. The team spent days attempting to build a simple…