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Google Labs open-sourced DESIGN.md, a plain-text format that gives AI coding agents persistent access to a project's visual design system, including tokens and rationale. The format, now at v0.3.0 with over 18,900 GitHub…
Pitara launches a memory layer for daily activities that captures meetings, notes, and documents, organizing them into a searchable private memory. The tool works in the background during meetings without a bot, providin…
Cosmos 3 Super defeated AuraFlow 22.8 to 16.0 in a head-to-head image generation test, consistently outperforming on prompt fidelity for composition, setting, and action cues. AuraFlow lost points for producing images ad…
Airtop, an AI agent platform founded in 2020, automates sales and marketing workflows by enabling users to build code-first agents that interact with websites and services. The company has raised approximately $38.8M–$43…
Hasbro, owner of the Peppa Pig franchise, is requiring child actors to sign away voice rights for AI use in new contracts, sparking backlash from industry advocacy groups. The Agents of Young Performers Association issue…
OpenAI reports that its Codex AI agent now generates 99.8% of all internal output tokens, with non-developer organizational adoption surging 189x since August 2025. Non-developers now make up 20% of Codex users, with fin…
Notion is shutting down its Notion Mail email product on September 22, citing a shift in user behavior toward AI agents managing email workflows. The company will focus on its AI agent offering, as over half of Notion Ma…
Microsoft is introducing skills to Copilot for Excel, enabling teams to scale expertise across workbooks through structured markdown workflows and deterministic financial connectors. This shift from individual expertise …
An AI filmmaking platform developer learned that exposing every model and parameter through an API does not produce great films, as it removes the human creative process. The platform's value lies in guiding users throug…
A new AI-powered chatbot called 'What Would Jesus Say?' allows users to simulate conversations with Jesus and other historical figures, offering a personalized hotline to the AI-generated Jesus.
Leanpub co-founder Len Epp discussed how AI is transforming writing and self-publishing, noting that recent advancements allow users to generate book-length manuscripts quickly through prompting. Leanpub is positioned at…
Flintly, a London-based AI workspace startup founded by Jason Edwards, launched a platform that automates creator and influencer marketing campaigns for brands and agencies. The tool handles briefing, creator matching, c…
Google released its first standalone Finance app for Android, with an iOS version promised later in 2026. The app includes AI-powered features like key moment explanations and a conversational research tool, and the AI-e…
Apple is raising prices across its product lineup, including the MacBook Neo, iPad Air, and M3 Ultra Mac Studio, due to a RAM shortage driven by demand for generative AI. The price increases range from $100 to $1,300, re…
The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously advanced the NO FAKES Act, a bipartisan bill to regulate AI-generated deepfakes by establishing federal standards for licensing voice and visual likeness, holding platforms liab…
Hugging Face hosts tools designed to generate deepfake nude images of a former Trump cabinet official, sitting members of Congress, and other senior US political figures, violating the platform's own content policy. The …
Shrijith Venkatramana, building git-lrc, explains that synthetic data has become a key ingredient for scaling modern large language models. By 2022, frontier AI labs had exhausted much of the public high-quality text, le…
A Walmart software engineer published InfiniteDiffusion, an independent paper accepted to SIGGRAPH 2026, introducing a new approach to infinite generation with diffusion models and the world's first learned procedural te…
A developer argues that the definition of 'done' for AI-built apps must shift from a local preview to a live URL accessible to others. The developer notes that while AI tools make it easy to create functional prototypes,…
Microsoft is transforming its software development lifecycle into an agentic platform where AI agents collaborate across planning, coding, security, and operations. The company reports that 62% of its developers say AI h…