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Ojin launched its Real-Time GenAI Platform, enabling developers to deploy conversational AI agents with lifelike avatars in about two minutes via a single widget embed. The platform offers two face models, ojin/oris-pres…
Anthropic's Claude chatbot has questioned whether watermarking AI-generated text can ever be a foolproof identification method, saying simple marks can be cropped or edited out and sophisticated text watermarks can be de…
Abode Luxury Rentals, which manages more than 200 luxury vacation homes in Park City, Jackson Hole, and Sun Valley, has created fictional narratives for nearly 200 properties to boost visibility in AI-generated travel re…
A 2024 creative writing experiment with 293 participants found that AI-assisted stories were judged more creative, better written, and more enjoyable, but also more similar to each other, indicating AI can raise individu…
Unconventional thought is becoming a key differentiator as AI excels at average tasks, according to a blog post. The author argues that individuals must cultivate novel, contradictory, and controversial ideas by connecti…
Google published an open-source Customer Support & Returns Agent on August 17 that demonstrates three infrastructure controls—signed database writes, isolated code execution, and deterministic action checks—to constrain …
Pete Koomen of Y Combinator proposes 'Small Software' as LLMs enable extensible web apps, and Cloudflare engineer Alex Sherman argues that LLM-native software like Pi allows users to customize apps by asking, with Dynami…
The Israeli government paid media firm Piro Inc. $900,000 to publish over 100 fake think tank articles in 12 days, a campaign designed to manipulate AI chatbots including ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity on questions abou…
Elon Musk reposted an AI-generated Austin Powers parody video mocking himself as 'the man who bought the UK' without crediting the original creator, DFF, after Utah Senator Mike Lee amplified it. The clip, originally pos…
GenBio AI, a Palo Alto-based startup co-founded by University of Washington scientist and 2024 Nobel Prize in chemistry winner David Baker, unveiled AIDO Cell, a virtual cell model that predicts how an entire cell's mole…
Mozilla announced three new features for Firefox's Smart Window (formerly AI Window) on Tuesday, including web search with sources via a partnership with Exa, automatic tab grouping, and visual previews of browsing histo…
Developers are shifting from chat-based AI coding tools to agentic workflows, with Windsurf's Flow and Claude Code's CLI offering more autonomous codebase exploration and self-correcting loops, according to a hands-on co…
A new AI-powered tool claims to remove TikTok's 'matcha filter' (officially 'wild hearts whisper') from photos in under 30 seconds, using color correction to reduce the green-yellow tint and restore natural skin tones. T…
An AI-run news outlet, RuntimeWire, beat WIRED by more than three hours in reporting on OpenAI's rogue AI agents talk at the Black Hat security conference, publishing about six minutes after the session ended. Founded by…
Alibaba's Qwen3.8-27B, a 27-billion-parameter dense model released around August 14, matches or beats Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 on coding benchmarks, scoring 61.7 on SWE-bench Pro versus Opus 4.6 Max's 53.4, while runn…
Sierra, the enterprise AI startup co-founded by former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor and ex-Google executive Clay Bavor, reached $200 million in annualized recurring revenue in May, doubling from $100 million in November…
Nvidia and Microsoft announced a partnership called 'AI for nuclear' at CERAWeek to deploy AI tools for the nuclear power industry, aiming to cut permitting times by over 90% and save tens of millions annually. Aalo Atom…
AI video and image creation platform Higgsfield raised $400 million in a Series B funding round at a $5.4 billion valuation, with annualized revenue reaching $700 million. The round was led by DST Global and included inv…
A user on X reported that Anthropic's Claude AI wrote a macOS driver for an obscure HP printer that was built only for Windows support, highlighting the ease of AI-assisted programming. The user, Kuber, expressed amazeme…
A developer has launched an AI resume optimization tool on Hacker News that organizes roles, projects, skills, and achievements, transforms vague descriptions into clearer language, adjusts focus for target positions, an…