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China's unicorn count rose to 381 in the 2026 Hurun Global Unicorn Index, up 38 from last year, with ByteDance ranking third globally behind OpenAI and Anthropic. The US leads with 806 unicorns, while China now produces …
Airwallex raised $320 million in a Series H round at an $11 billion valuation, up from $8 billion in December 2025, as the global payments company bets on agentic finance. The round was led by Addition with support from …
Google has launched Vids, an AI-powered video creation and editing tool integrated with Gemini, enabling users to generate storyboards, scripts, and video clips from prompts. The tool offers features like screen recordin…
Italy's competition authority opened an antitrust probe into Microsoft over alleged unfair commercial practices tied to a price increase on Microsoft 365 subscriptions, claiming customers were automatically moved to a pr…
SoloEngine, the first low-code Agentic AI development platform, enables building production-grade autonomous AI loops without writing code. It encapsulates Loop Engineering's six core primitives into visual modules, allo…
Hyundai Motor unveiled the eighth-generation Avante sedan at the 2026 Busan International Mobility Show, featuring the Pleos Connect infotainment platform and Gleo AI voice assistant. The redesigned model marks the compa…
Google has launched Gemini Spark, a personal AI agent that operates autonomously 24/7 to handle multi-step tasks across Google apps like Gmail, Calendar, and Docs. The agent is rolling out to trusted testers and will be …
Codeplain, a startup founded in Ljubljana, Slovenia, introduced spec-driven development using its open-source Plain specification language to address maintenance challenges in AI-generated code. CEO Dušan Omerčević argue…
Photoroom engineers found that classifier-free guidance scales above 7.5 caused oversaturation and clipped highlights in their SDXL product renders. They fixed the issue by adding CFG rescale at 0.7 and dynamic threshold…
Gartner predicts that by 2028, AI coding costs will exceed the average global developer salary of around $2,000 per month due to rising token consumption and consumption-based billing. The research firm warns that withou…
Supercomplete.ai launches an AI writing assistant that provides instant answers with sub-0.5 second response times, works across all platforms, and adapts to user style over time. The tool offers free and pro tiers, targ…
Hyundai Motor unveiled the eighth-generation Avante compact sedan at the 2026 Busan Mobility Show, featuring a larger cabin, Pleos Connect infotainment with Gleo AI generative agent, and updated powertrains. The model ai…
Ludwig Spec Driven Development MCP is a specification-driven framework that uses prose-first markdown specs to drive LLM code generation and verification for Rust projects. The framework ensures spec and implementation s…
Beijing-based Zhipu AI released its GLM-5.2 coding model, which ranks in the top three globally on a major benchmark, sparking comparisons to DeepSeek's earlier disruption of the AI industry. The open-weight model is pra…
Unilever is transforming its marketing model by treating creators as a new mode of engagement rather than a media channel, with plans to spend half its media budget on social channels and increase influencer investment. …
At the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, CMOs from Bose, P&G, and other major brands are moving away from traditional agency-of-record models, instead sourcing creative work from a mix of agencies, creat…
Researchers introduced PhyEditBench, a benchmark for evaluating physics-aware image editing in generative models, revealing significant limitations in current state-of-the-art methods. The benchmark includes 238 real-wor…
Researchers propose LCG, a framework for long-context multi-image generation that uses Sparse Relational Attention to maintain consistency across sequential outputs. The method introduces a Routing Consistency Constraint…
Researchers present the first systematic survey of unified vision-language perception in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), tracing the paradigm evolution through a five-stage taxonomy and identifying open challen…
Researchers propose ForeAgent, an agentic forensics framework for AI-generated image detection that uses a Perception-Verdict architecture and a Hindsight-Driven Self-Refining strategy to iteratively improve. The system …