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Fireworks AI is in talks to raise a $15 billion valuation round, while Baseten is raising an $11 billion round, marking a rapid progression from unicorn to decacorn status in the AI inference infrastructure space. OpenRo…
AI coding assistants' "skills" feature—saved prompts that shape AI behavior—has become a junk drawer of unnecessary files, with users accumulating dozens of markdown documents that rarely trigger automatically and requir…
A developer who builds RAG/chatbot systems and APIs spent a week relying primarily on ChatGPT and Claude for daily engineering tasks, from coding and debugging to documentation and resume writing. The experiment found th…
OpenAI published a project showcase demonstrating applications built with its Codex AI coding tool, including a SwiftUI dungeon crawler, a luxury watch landing page, and a procedural 3D city generator. The company reveal…
A solo iOS developer shipped 10 apps in four months after deploying just one at the start of February 2026, using a dual-model AI workflow with Claude Code as the primary agent and MiniMax M2.7 as a backup. The developer…
A developer built a daily news newsletter bot using Hermes Agent, TypeScript, and Nodemailer, but encountered multiple failures including a typo that caused a 30-minute debugging session and a container rebuild that dele…
A developer using the BMAD (Breakthrough Method for Agile AI-Driven Development) framework has eliminated context-drift problems that plagued three months of Claude Code projects. The open-source framework, which has cro…
A US federal judge denied Chinese AI firm MiniMax's motion to dismiss a copyright infringement lawsuit brought by Disney and other Hollywood studios, ruling the company must face claims that its Hailuo AI service generat…
Pixal3D, a new image-to-3D AI model, focuses on preserving pixel-level alignment between a source image and the generated 3D asset, addressing common fidelity issues where models lose shape or detail. Developers can inte…
Parts of Pope Leo XIV's encyclical *Magnifica Humanitas* were flagged as AI-generated by automated detection tools, according to analyses cited by The Verge. The Verge reports that the detector Pangram estimated 46 perce…
Google announced Gemini Omni, a new AI tool that generates videos from text, images, audio, or video, aiming to match the quality leap seen with its Nano Banana image generator. The tool includes an avatar feature that c…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declared college degrees worthless because AI can teach better, while Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and venture capitalists predict entire classes of work will be "solved" within five years. The author…
Shalin and Kanyes, cofounders of Hyper, launched a self-serve version of their "second brain" AI software that integrates personal context to automate tasks. The founders, who previously built robots at Matic, quit their…
AI video firm Runway announced Project Luxo on Tuesday, a research initiative debuting three short films produced by a single staff member for roughly $4,000 each, aiming to demonstrate that AI-generated media can achiev…
An analysis by Linch Zhang, posted on the forum LessWrong, found that portions of Pope Leo XIV's encyclical *Magnifica Humanitas* were between 40 percent and 100 percent likely written by AI, according to the AI detector…
Fireworks AI is in talks to raise a new funding round at a $15 billion valuation, nearly quadrupling its $4 billion valuation from October 2025. The Redwood City-based AI inference startup, which processes 15 trillion to…
DuckDuckGo's U.S. app installs spiked 30% in the week following Google I/O, with iOS installs peaking at 69.9% in a single day, as users sought alternatives to Google's AI-integrated search. However, the app users instal…
A Martinez mother lost approximately $5,400 after scammers used artificial intelligence to clone her daughter's voice during a fake kidnapping call in May. Deborah Del Mastro wired the money over five hours after hearing…
An East Bay mother, Deborah Del Mastro of Martinez, was scammed out of approximately $5,400 after callers used AI-generated audio to mimic her 37-year-old daughter's voice and claimed she had been kidnapped. The scammers…
Engineering teams in 2026 are choosing between multiple credible AI code review tools rather than deciding whether to adopt one, as the technology has matured from a curiosity into a standard layer of the development wor…