Generative AI

Nearly 1,000 actors, agents, and parents signed an open letter organized by the Agents for Young Performers Association condemning a major studio's contract clauses that require child actors to allow their voices to be u…

Insurers are using generative AI diffusion models to generate thousands of synthetic weather events for catastrophe modeling, improving risk assessment for rare disasters. However, the models suffer from hallucinations t…

A developer built Hacker Trends, a tool that indexes 18 years of Hacker News comments to chart the rise and fall of topics, tools, and people, using Upstash Redis Search. The tool visualizes competitive dynamics like Clo…

Former New York City Council candidate Jonathan Rinaldi was arrested Wednesday and charged with forgery for allegedly using artificial intelligence to create fake endorsements and fabricated news articles on social media…

Two former xAI employees estimate that over half of Grok AI's traffic is for pornographic content, including images, videos, and roleplay chats. xAI is expanding Grok's image and video generation capabilities, filling a …

Infobip engineers predict that within a few years, no one will write code manually, as AI tools take over coding and engineers become orchestrators who review AI-generated code. They emphasize that engineering remains es…

Salesforce announced Agentforce Help Agent, a pre-packaged service agent with a pay-per-resolution pricing model where organizations pay $2 only when the agent autonomously resolves a customer issue. The agent, built on …

Large language models are transforming software development by making coding accessible and affordable, akin to how IKEA revolutionized furniture assembly. This shift enables individuals to build utility software cheaply…

A developer argues that the frontend engineering landscape is shifting from framework wars to a new paradigm centered on AI-assisted generation and server-driven composition. The mechanical parts of UI development have b…

ByteDance launched Seedance 2.0 Mini on Venice.ai, a lightweight AI video model that generates 15-second clips with native audio at half the credit cost of its predecessor. The integration deepens the link between AI vid…

A 30-day series on building AI-powered products reaches Day 22, detailing how knowledge workers can package their expertise into scalable products using AI. The piece outlines a six-step process for creating defensible p…

Anthropic distinguishes agentic workflows from autonomous agents by control flow: workflows follow predefined code paths while agents dynamically direct their own process. Deloitte projects 50% of generative AI companies…

Anubhav Rohatgi, senior director of products at Adobe, warns that AI adoption in product development is causing burnout and delivering little measurable value, citing an MIT study that found 95% of enterprise generative …

The rise of AI agents is shifting the primary work device from laptops to phones, as human roles narrow to decision-making and approval rather than high-bandwidth output. The bottleneck moves from typing speed to attenti…

Videowright, a new open-source tool, lets users create animated explainer videos from a single prompt by generating video segments, AI voiceovers, and syncing audio within coding agents like Claude Code. The tool support…

A developer argues that companies should adopt an agent-first approach to product development, treating AI agents as primary users rather than adding agent support as an afterthought. The approach emphasizes that agents …

Alex Bores lost narrowly in NY-12 and will not head to Congress. GLM-5.2 is the new best open model but expensive. Dean Ball joins OpenAI for policy work. A new GPT-5.5-Instant version was released without proper version…

System design interviews are evolving to include AI-specific questions on topics like ChatGPT, RAG, LLM inference, and AI agents. A developer outlines key differences from traditional systems, such as probabilistic outpu…

A developer compiled a list of 47 words and phrases that make text sound AI-written, such as 'leverage', 'cutting-edge', and 'it's important to note'. The list includes plain-English replacements and tests to identify fi…

A study of 21 novice programmers using generative AI tools found that while most completed their tasks, the tools widened the gap between high- and low-performing students. Struggling students experienced persistent meta…