Generative AI news and analysis on Web Pulse: 6257 curated articles tracking the latest Generative AI developments, tools, and research, updated continuously from vetted sources.
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…
Researchers introduced Autodata, a method enabling AI agents to act as data scientists that build high-quality synthetic training and evaluation data. The approach, including a practical implementation called Agentic Sel…
Codeplain advocates for spec-driven development, arguing that AI-generated code should be regenerated from specifications rather than maintained, as AI produces code faster than teams can review it.
Google announced new AI-powered creative and reporting tools for its Demand Gen campaigns, including Gemini-powered creative recommendations, expanded video resizing, and web-to-app measurement. The updates aim to help a…
Hasbro is facing backlash over a reported AI clause in contracts for child actors on Peppa Pig, requiring them to sign over their voices for AI use. An open letter by the Agents of Young Performers Association condemning…
Microsoft's MAI-Image-2.5 model ranks second in image editing and third in text-to-image generation on the Artificial Analysis Image Arena, outranking Google Gemini offerings and prior Microsoft models. OpenAI's GPT Imag…
A group of publishers owning nearly 400 local and regional newspapers sued OpenAI and Microsoft for allegedly stealing hundreds of thousands of articles to train ChatGPT and Copilot. Separately, Anthropic accused Chinese…
Unconventional AI released Un-0, an image generation model built on a simulated oscillator architecture that founder Naveen Rao claims could reduce AI power consumption by 1000x. The $475 million startup demonstrated the…
The generative AI economy has generated $110 billion in sales over the past 12 months, with an annualized revenue run rate exceeding $175 billion, according to a new bottom-up, deduplicated report from Exponential View. …
Google Finance exited beta with a dedicated Android app, portfolio tracking, and AI-powered scheduled briefings, marking the platform's broadest expansion since its AI rebuild began in August 2025. The updates include an…
Hasbro faces backlash after allegedly introducing contract terms for child voice actors on Peppa Pig that grant the studio perpetual rights to clone and use AI-generated audio. Nearly 1,000 entertainment professionals si…
AWS announced Chaplin, an open-source solution using AI agents powered by Amazon Bedrock and the Model Context Protocol, to enable self-service health event analytics. The tool lets operations teams query AWS Health noti…
REI ran an Instagram ad for a Van Rysel road bike that Meta's AI tool distorted, adding handlebars to the seat and creating other errors. The ad ran for a week before REI pulled it, blaming Meta's auto-enrolled Advantage…