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Meta Platforms ran ads for Kromix, an AI image styler app that promoted the creation of nonconsensual intimate imagery of female US politicians, despite Meta's policies against sexual content. The ads, targeted exclusive…
Anders Hejlsberg unveiled a Go-based rewrite of the TypeScript compiler that processes the VS Code codebase (roughly 1.5M lines) in under a second, compared to 12-15 seconds for the old implementation. Hejlsberg said AI …
Amazon has made its generative AI-powered Alexa+ assistant free for Prime members on Fire TV devices, with non-Prime users paying $19.99 per month. The upgrade, which rolls out automatically to eligible Prime members sta…
A product manager and engineer, who prefers to remain unnamed, built a design skill that translates feelings into UI and remembers them, aiming to help non-designers communicate design preferences to large language model…
HappyRobot, a Spanish-US startup founded in 2022, reached a $1.2 billion valuation after closing a $143 million Series C round this month. The company builds AI agents to automate complex enterprise work, initially focus…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said in a CNBC interview that "nobody uses AI better than Meta," endorsing Meta's AI strategy as the company plans capital expenditures of $125 billion to $145 billion for 2026. Meta's stock rose …
A developer reports that LLM-generated issue reports are causing maintainers to auto-close or ignore legitimate bug reports, even when written in a human voice, leading him to pivot to using LLMs for issue creation with …
ChatPlayground AI is offering a lifetime subscription to its Unlimited Plan for $59.97 (regularly $619) until Aug. 25, providing access to over 20 AI models including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, Llama, and Perplex…
Amazon quietly enabled generative AI training on all Twitch streams, VODs, clips, chat logs, and guest audio by default on August 12, with no advance notice, and Twitch CPO Mike Minton admitted on record that opt-in was …
Generative AI is emerging as a tool to translate raw personal health data from wearable devices into actionable insights, addressing the Quantified Self movement's long-standing problem of data without meaning. The techn…
OpenAI's whitepaper reveals that ChatGPT is moving from pilot projects to full-scale production, with companies embedding the model in customer-service chatbots, internal knowledge bases, and data-analysis pipelines. Org…
The volume of unsolicited book queries has surged from about 200 per month to 200 per week since ChatGPT went mainstream, with most submissions now AI-generated or heavily AI-assisted, according to industry insiders. Pub…
Software engineer and former U.S. Marine Corps IT specialist reflects on the blurring line between human capability and digital tools, arguing that AI's integration into software development and daily life risks delegati…
Replit launched Free Mode, a new feature powered by OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Luna model, available to Core and Pro subscribers at $20 and $100 per month, respectively. The feature aims to reduce AI token usage and costs, made po…
LocalSeen, a new AI visibility measurement tool, scores how often ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Google AI Overviews recommend local businesses, providing a 0-100 visibility score and actionable fixes. The tool generates ~…
Generative AI tools are becoming more accessible, changing how work is done but not necessarily replacing jobs, according to a fractional executive's analysis. The author argues that AI can outsource tedious tasks, allow…
World Labs co-founder Fei-Fei Li said in a Bloomberg Technology interview published Wednesday that her company aims to teach AI to understand and act in three-dimensional space, moving beyond chatbots that can only descr…
Klo, a video editing app for Mac, released an MCP server that lets coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor drive a full video editor—import, cut, caption, grade, and export—while footage stays on the Mac. The se…
Klo, a native macOS app, introduces agentic video editing, allowing users to describe edits in plain language while an agent performs them on a real timeline, with footage never leaving the Mac. The app offers 83 distinc…
ChatGPT cannot edit videos because it lacks the tools to open footage, cut timelines, or export files, and its only workaround is generating ffmpeg commands that re-encode files and lack professional editing features. In…