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OpenAI has drastically reduced its citations of Reddit in ChatGPT responses, dropping from 4.5% to 0.5% of outputs after switching to a 'site:operator' search method, according to PromptWatch data. Meanwhile, Reddit is e…
OpenAI's second-quarter sales grew at a slower pace than rival Anthropic, according to The Wall Street Journal, signaling a cooling in the AI market's rapid expansion. The report highlights that OpenAI, led by Sam Altman…
A developer has built a job application automation pipeline using Claude Code that reduces application time from 45 minutes to about 90 seconds per application. The system scrapes a job posting, tailors a resume, renders…
DeepInfra offers the cheapest API pricing for Qwen3 30B A3B at $0.12 per million input tokens, with Alibaba at $0.13 and NextBit at $0.14, according to live pricing data refreshed about 19 hours ago via OpenRouter. The m…
Google's Gemma 4 26B A4B, a 25.2B-parameter multimodal mixture-of-experts model with 3.8B active parameters and 128 experts, is now available with DekaLLM offering the cheapest API pricing at $0.06 per million input toke…
A Hacker News user, in a post titled 'LLMs .what do you smoke beforehand?', claims that large language models have been intentionally or accidentally degraded since around October 2024, citing Anthropic's Claude models a…
Assigning a hyper-specific persona to a large language model (LLM) is the fastest way to improve output quality, according to a guide on prompt engineering. The article introduces the Role-Context-Task-Format (RCTF) fram…
Mashable is offering the Claude & ChatGPT for Project Management Bundle for $19.99, down from $97, featuring six courses and six hours of training on using OpenAI's ChatGPT and Anthropic's Claude for project management t…
Google is enabling AI note-taking by default for some Google Meet users, automatically generating live transcripts, summaries, and shared Google Docs without manual prompts. The feature synthesizes conversations into act…
The US Copyright Office's January 2025 report states that purely AI-generated material is not copyrightable, and prompts alone do not provide sufficient human control. This leaves AI-assisted code in a legal gray area, a…
Rillet, a two-year-old AI-native accounting startup, has raised a $100 million Series C at a $1 billion valuation, led by ICONIQ with participation from Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Oak HC/FT, Bain Capital Ventu…
Most social media platforms train AI models on user content, and few offer easy opt-outs, according to a Lifehacker report. Twitch recently allowed users to opt out, but Facebook, for example, does not offer an opt-out e…
A benchmark comparing 8 AI models on ASCII-art generation across 3 prompts found Kimi K3 fastest at 14 seconds for the first prompt, while Fable 5 took 353 seconds and cost $1.229, and Opus 5 completed all prompts in abo…
Robin Williams' children Zak, Zelda, and Cody Williams revived his dormant Instagram account on Monday, nearly a month after what would have been his 75th birthday, to combat 'rampant AI abuse' of his voice and likeness.…
A developer ran the same ChatGPT prompt three times and found that only 4 of 16 domains appeared consistently across all runs, with Mailchimp missing entirely from one run. The top-ranked brands like Klaviyo and Omnisend…
Roblox is hiring a Senior Director of Engineering for Generative AI in San Mateo, CA, with a salary of $526k–574k/yr, to lead the Applied AI organization within its Roblox Build platform. The role involves owning model s…
Sebastian Thrun revealed Dulo, a small stealth robotics startup, during an August 18 keynote at the Actuate robotics conference in San Francisco. Dulo's first-party Stanford-hosted page says the team is building foundati…
Google launched Gemini in Chrome for Android users on Tuesday, bringing AI-powered features like page summarization, question answering, and image generation via the Nano Banana AI image generator to mobile. The update a…
AI filmmaker Kavan The Kid is building copyrightable intellectual property around his animated series The Chronicles of Bone, using AI tools to create characters he owns and attracting an audience Hollywood wants. He rep…
Apple removed the AI-powered 'nudify' app Kromix from the App Store after WIRED reported that Meta ran 32 ads for it, including one featuring an AI-generated pornographic deepfake resembling a prominent female US politic…