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Jeremy Morrell, in a blog post titled 'Extensible Software in the age of LLMs,' argues that large language models (LLMs) create a new opportunity for extensible software on the web by lowering the cost of authoring exten…
A writer for Science recounts how disconnecting from AI tools restored their passion for writing, after relying on generative AI left them feeling detached from the creative process. The author describes the experience a…
Simon Willison, a software engineer and creator of Datasette, argued on the Talking Postgres podcast that lines of code can be a meaningful productivity metric for coding agents, noting that while a senior engineer might…
Google is expanding access to its Gemini AI tools for university students globally, building on a regional rollout that offered no-cost access in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The company also offers paid Gemini s…
Alibaba released the open-weight Qwen3.8-27B multimodal model on 2026-08-05 under Apache-2.0, featuring a 27B dense architecture with a vision encoder, 262,144-token native context, and hybrid thinking; Unsloth's Dynamic…
Google is expanding Gemini for education with study notebooks, an adaptive learning experience that lets users upload course materials, establish a diagnostic baseline, and receive personalized lessons, quizzes, and prog…
Comedian Husk, a former full-time landscaper from Maine, has amassed over 700,000 TikTok followers and 1 million Instagram followers in eight months by posting videos that troll ChatGPT's voice mode, with one video earni…
Higgsfield, the AI video platform co-founded by CEO Alex Mashrabov, has placed its video models on Together AI's cloud, adding another infrastructure supplier two days after closing a $400 million Series B. Together AI d…
Google has introduced interactive 3D visualizations and charts inside the Gemini app, allowing users to explore custom models directly within a chat. The feature, which is not yet available for Education and Workspace ac…
Google has integrated Gemini Live with its Deep Research capability, enabling users to initiate multi-step research tasks by voice and continue them in the background while switching apps or locking their phones. The upd…
Google has introduced study notebooks in Gemini, a student-focused workspace that offers diagnostic quizzes, personalized lessons, practice quizzes, flashcards, and progress tracking. The feature is available globally on…
Sanja Fidler, former vice president of AI research at NVIDIA, launched Veeda AI on Wednesday with Zan Gojcic and Huan Ling to build world models that train robots in simulated physical environments. The startup aims to p…
Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) combines a retriever that fetches relevant information from external knowledge sources at query time with a generator LLM that uses that context to produce grounded answers, addressin…
Boing Boing is promoting AI Invoice Maker, an AI-powered invoicing app with 9 templates and support for over 150 currencies, now available for a lifetime subscription at $19.99 (MSRP $39.99). The app is designed to turn …
Pinterest is hiring a Principal Engineer for its Core Pinner Journeys team in San Francisco or remote US, offering a salary of $243k–450k per year. The role will define the technical vision for Homefeed, Search, and the …
Vira, an open-source AI product, advocates for AI assistants to return structured interfaces rather than walls of text, arguing that text is a poor final surface for outcomes with structure, decisions, and actions. The c…
A test of five AI detectors — Originality.ai, GPTZero, Copyleaks, Writer.com, and ZeroGPT — on the same three pieces found no consensus: raw Claude 3.5 Sonnet output was flagged by all five (95–99% probability), a 40% hu…
A study of 1,200 Chinese secondary school students found that those using generative AI tools scored 12% lower on standardized math and science exams, according to a paper posted on SSRN (abstract 6868618). The research,…
Google AI Studio's Build mode now supports one-click importing of GitHub repositories and bi-directional synchronization, allowing developers to move code freely between GitHub and Google's AI-powered app builder. The fe…
Visitors to the Walker Art Center mistook a digital artwork for 'AI slop,' prompting the museum and the artist to respond. The piece, created by artist [Artist Name], was displayed at the Minneapolis museum, and the misu…