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Shopify introduced Canvas on Thursday, a site-building tool that lets merchants create their Shopify store by chatting with Shopify's AI agent Sidekick. Canvas renders the store's real code in real time rather than a sta…
Opus6.video launched as a browser-based generator that uses Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 to write short animations as code — canvas drawing, typography, 3D scenes and precise timing — which are played back and recorded fr…
Philosopher Daniel Williams asked OpenAI's new GPT-6 Astra model, on its 'pro' thinking-effort setting with memory disabled, to write a 2,000-word academic review of his Oxford University Press book 'The Social Roots of …
A new open-source Go tool called outis generates and sends fake RFC 3464 "user unknown" bounce emails to senders, aiming to remove recipients from AI-generated automated email lists. The bounce uses status code 5.1.1, is…
Cloudflare announced on October 1, 2026 that its AI Search product is generally available, with billing starting November 1, 2026, after a preview period that began over a year ago. The release adds native multimodal emb…
US District Judge Amit Mehta dismissed antitrust lawsuits from Chegg and Penske Media against Alphabet's Google on Wednesday (Sep 30), ruling that the publishers' claims over Google's AI-generated summaries "fail to get …
OpenAI announced Dots, a GPT-6 Astra-powered AI agent, at its annual DevDay conference, restricting it to users on its $20/month Pro plan and above while Meta offers its competing Muse agent free to anyone with a Meta ac…
Google published benchmarks for its upcoming Gemini 4 Argon model showing it competitive with offerings from Anthropic and OpenAI, though Bloomberg reported Google staff are less than impressed with Argon outside testing…
OpenAI introduced Codex Cloud in its September 29 release notes, letting users start and continue coding tasks from desktop, web, or mobile while their computer sleeps. Writer Felipe Coimbra said he used the feature from…
A developer released Tegaki, an open-source tool that generates handwriting animations for any font by extracting glyph skeletons from raster or geometry data and matching them to known stroke orders such as Hershey and …
A Tokyo court granted legal protection to actor Kenjiro Tsuda's voice, recognizing it as symbolic of individual personality and finding that unauthorized commercial exploitation could infringe publicity rights in a case …
Alibaba's Qwen AI service updated its privacy policy, adding a clause that it collects user content including prompts, text, files, images, audio, and video, and may collect voice or video recordings when those features …
US District Judge Amit Mehta dismissed antitrust lawsuits filed by Penske Media and Chegg against Google's AI Overviews in a memorandum opinion filed September 30, ruling that the publishers failed to plead a valid antit…
Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles built an optical-neural processor that detects deepfake videos with an average accuracy of 97.79% while analyzing 15 Celeb-DF videos simultaneously in a single opt…
Cloudflare announced that AI Search, its managed index and retrieval pipeline built on Workers AI, Vectorize, R2, and Browser Run, is now generally available, with billing starting November 1, 2026, alongside a free tier…
A developer built Runometry, a running shoe database and price comparison site covering 841 shoes, 16 brands and 6 locales, using Angular with AnalogJS, Spartan UI components and Tailwind, hosted statically on Cloudflare…
Sensii launched as a live AI voice coach for League of Legends that reads gold, items, KDA and levels for the player, allies and enemies from Riot's Live Client API to answer mid-game questions. The coaching agent is ope…
Google announced Gemini 4 Argon, an AI model that generates up to 1 million output tokens versus the previous model's 64,000-token limit, priced at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens. Google is…
UK AI minister Kanishka Narayan ordered government guidance updated after it advised civil servants to use AI only when necessary, choose smaller models such as Gemini Flash over Gemini Pro, and keep prompts to a minimum…
President Trump signed an executive order in September 2026 requiring the executive branch to use the term "Super Intelligence" instead of "artificial intelligence" in government documents, following a September 19 onlin…