Generative AI

A developer built mathondu, an autonomous AI merchant and store factory that uses Google's Agent Development Kit (ADK) and Gemini models to create digital shops, photograph products, compile Android apps, and automate Wh…

OpenAI reported that Asana saved $5.9 million by using OpenAI Codex to replace its outdated Enzyme testing system in two weeks for about $12,000, compared with a previous plan estimated to take five years and cost roughl…

Google has upgraded Google Flow with Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash, enabling more precise control over AI-generated videos, including first- and last-frame interpolation and scene extension that analyzes up to 10 seconds of exis…

The Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) has updated its Charts Code of Practice to require eligible recordings to be 'substantially human made,' banning fully AI-generated songs from its music charts effecti…

A class-action lawsuit filed on 26 August 2026 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California accuses Elon Musk's xAI of training its Grok image generation models on confirmed child sexual abuse mater…

A class action lawsuit filed in the Northern District of California on Wednesday, 26 August, accuses Elon Musk's xAI of using real child sexual abuse material to train Grok's image and video generation capabilities, enab…

Odyssey, an AI lab building general world models, has released Odyssey-2, which generates minutes-long interactive simulations from text or image prompts in roughly 50 milliseconds, and Agora-1, a multi-agent world model…

Moonvalley, an AI research lab, released Marey, a text-to-video and image-to-video model trained exclusively on licensed and public-domain footage, positioning it as commercially safe for professional studios and brands.…

AdAnt AI, a conversational ad creative agent that turns a brief into social video ad concepts and variations, was among the top three AI products on Product Hunt in August 2026 by upvotes. The early-stage product, aimed …

Google Stitch, a free AI interface design tool from Google Labs, turns prompts, sketches, or voice input into multi-screen UI designs on an infinite canvas and exports front-end code in multiple frameworks. Announced at …

A developer built a full-stack document translator entirely through AI-driven 'Vibe Coding,' converting legal and bureaucratic texts into everyday Portuguese while enforcing WCAG AAA accessibility and LGPD compliance. Th…

The UK AI sandbox has launched a new generative model testbed featuring a built-in prompt engineering toolkit integrated with Claude Code, deployment presets for customer-support LLM agents compliant with UK data-protect…

Sean, founder and CEO of M2W, announced on Hacker News the launch of an AI editor for manga creators, developed with professional Japanese manga editors from major publishing firms. The tool provides critical feedback in…

A developer built an automated system that uses Claude to refill its own article topic queue when it runs dry, ensuring daily publication without human intervention. The system, managed by launchd on macOS, decouples art…

Google has launched an 'Expert Intelligence' feature in Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM) that lets users cite and work with more than 100,000 books they own via Google Play Books, enabling them to turn books into qu…

NVIDIA's DLSS 5 neural rendering technology, leaked via an early-access build of NBA 2K27, has been modded into The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim by YouTuber PureDark, dramatically improving character faces and lighting in the…

Z.ai's stealth preview model, branded 'ox-alpha' on OpenRouter.AI and OpenCode.AI, has launched as GLM-5.3-Flash, an efficient open-weights model priced at $0.07 per million input tokens and $0.25 per million output toke…

CollabKar, an AI-powered influencer marketing platform built for the All Things Agentic Hackathon by Google Cloud & Gemini, aims to help Indian MSMEs and D2C founders vet creators and price campaigns. The platform uses G…

Google has unveiled Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash, a generative AI model that can extend video scenes by up to 40 seconds, generate transitions between two frames, and render videos at up to 4K resolution. The model analyzes up …

Seedance 2, an AI video generation model, produces more deliberate camera motion and better lighting, color, and mood consistency than earlier models, but still struggles with small object shape changes, unnatural comple…