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SenseTime, a Hong Kong-listed artificial intelligence company, expects to report a first-half 2026 profit of between RMB500 million and RMB700 million, reversing a loss of about RMB1.489 billion in the same period last y…
Alibaba has officially launched HappyShrimp 1.0, an AI music model that can turn emotions, stories or memories into complete music tracks through natural-language prompts. The launch moves HappyShrimp from an earlier rep…
Spotify removed 75 million spammy tracks last year, and YouTube researchers wiped 130,000 low-quality channels in six months, as tech giants including Google, Meta, and LinkedIn ramp up efforts to purge AI-generated slop…
Major foundation model vendors, including Anthropic and Google, deployed statistical text watermarking and cryptographic metadata standards to comply with the EU AI Act Article 50, which took effect August 2, 2026. Anthr…
The National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage, under the Korea Heritage Service, and the Voluntary Agency Network of Korea (VANK) concluded a monthlong campaign by the second cohort of the 'Global AI Cultural Heri…
Chinese AI platforms from DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and Alibaba are undercutting US rivals with API prices as low as $0.14 per million input tokens versus over $5 for Claude Opus, a 35x difference, prompting companies like …
Marketers are increasingly integrating AI tools into their workflows without universal guardrails, according to a Digiday Podcast discussion featuring Evin Shutt, global CEO of 72andSunny, and Isaiah Clay, a recent gradu…
Researchers introduced Equilibrium Forcing (EqF), a new framework for video denoising generative models that eliminates noise level conditioning, enabling adaptive inference-time algorithms. EqF decouples learning the de…
A new arXiv preprint (2608.14729) reports that Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) internally represent real and fake images differently, with fake images inducing distinct hidden-layer activation patterns even when sem…
A new survey from arXiv (arXiv:2608.14730v1) proposes a two-dimensional taxonomy for intellectual property protection in visual generative AI, classifying methods by control logic (Information Exposure Control, Generativ…
A new framework from arXiv (arXiv:2608.14740v1) integrates depth and surface-normal prediction as structured visual supervision into a unified image and video creation model, achieving the highest overall score of 4.15 i…
Researchers introduced MR-Traj, a multi-resolution diffusion framework for generating synthetic human mobility trajectories, which outperforms state-of-the-art methods in modeling fine-resolution mobility patterns and su…
OGX (Open GenAI Stack), an open-source AI application server and Python library, implements the APIs of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google with pluggable backend providers, enabling developers to build agentic AI applications…
Researchers introduced GraphLoom, a reliability-calibrated multimodal knowledge-graph retrieval-augmented generation framework that improves answer quality and evidence faithfulness by routing compact evidence through hi…
TikTok is using an AI clone of a brand founder for advertisements, treating the founder's identity as a set of model weights to generate personalized ads at scale. The platform leverages a few minutes of source footage t…
A user reports that ComfyUI on an AMD RX 9070XT with ROCm and PyTorch remains the best combination, and describes creating a bash build script to generate Docker images with specified versions of ROCm, PyTorch, and Comfy…
A candy brand discovered that TikTok created an AI clone of its founder to run ads, according to a video report. The clone was used in advertisements without the founder's consent, raising concerns about unauthorized AI-…
A developer voices that AI is draining the joy and meaning from side projects, as new software releases feel like wrappers and LLMs can explain, implement, and optimize concepts in seconds. The author questions whether s…
A developer integrated Runway Aleph, an in-context video model, into a content pipeline to generate product videos, finding that in-context editing outperformed text-to-video due to continuity. The developer emphasized t…
Brennan Day, a Winnipeg-born blogger, responded to being satirized by circlejerk.blog, an AI-generated art project that mimics the IndieWeb community's earnest tone. Day praised the site's accurate mimicry of Unstory's w…