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OpenAI cut the price of its GPT-5.6 Sol flagship model by 50%, reducing input cost to $2.50 per 1M tokens and output to $15 per 1M tokens. The model, released on Jul 9, 2026, features a 1M token context window and a know…
Makiverse, a free AI anime and manga generator, turns text into anime episodes, manga, comics, webtoons, and comic shorts in any art style without requiring drawing or animation skills. The platform offers dedicated AI g…
Israel has created a fake think tank, the Hanover Institute for Public Policy, to influence AI chatbots, according to a report by Responsible Statecraft. The institute, produced by Piro, Inc. on behalf of the Israeli Gov…
Higgsfield, a San Francisco-based AI-video startup founded in 2023 by former Snap executive Alex Mashrabov and Yerzat Dulat, raised $400 million in a Series B led by DST Global at a $5.4 billion valuation, quadrupling it…
Plotly Technologies Inc. released Plotly Studio Embedded, a tool that integrates agentic data analytics and visualization into Dash apps, allowing end users to ask questions about data and generate charts, tables, maps, …
SageOx, a company reimagining human-agent collaboration, offered an engineering candidate a four-day work trial instead of a traditional interview process, during which the candidate integrated SageOx's team knowledge in…
Rogue Studio, a cinematic AI-generator platform for adult visual storytelling, launched today with Rogue 1.0, an AI video-generation tool for uncensored adult content, aiming to be the 'HBO of AI' by offering high-qualit…
A new analysis warns that AI's takeover of entry-level roles threatens Gen Z's career development by eliminating the apprenticeship model where tacit knowledge is gained, potentially creating a fragile workforce of 'prom…
Niu Lai, a low-budget Chinese animation film, grossed 11.4 million yuan after going viral for its poor animation and confusing plot, up from 7,705 yuan in its first 10 days, according to movie tracking site Mao Yan. Soci…
Rick Manelius, a creative technologist and creator of textlog, introduced the 'AI;DR' (AI; Didn't Read) concept on Hacker News to address the influx of unedited and low-quality AI-generated content. The post, shared by t…
Skybits launched a document editor that lets teams using AI tools like ChatGPT Canvas share and collaboratively edit AI-generated documents without manual file transfers, addressing workflow friction in human-agent colla…
A developer's blog post compares a human-derived algorithm with code generated by Anthropic's Claude AI for decoding thumbnail image data, finding the AI's output unnecessarily complex and harder to review than writing t…
In a Q3 2026 essay, technology commentator and AI enthusiast (who goes by the handle 'AI;DR') proposes a new policy to combat unedited AI-generated content: if a sender does not review and edit AI output, the recipient s…
A fake AI influencer named Janie, created by an unnamed author using ChatGPT-generated images and AI video tools, amassed 1,300 TikTok followers and tens of thousands of views per video within a week, leading The Daily M…
Nous Research introduced Bot Mode for Hermes Desktop on August 17th, turning the AI agent's existing profiles into named Bots with separate roles, models, memory, skills and profile pictures. Users can build a specialist…
Independent music publisher and record label Round Hill Music sued Anthropic for copyright infringement, alleging unauthorized use of its musical compositions to train Anthropic's AI models. The lawsuit, filed in the Nor…
Tech blogger John Gruber called Anthropic's plan to watermark Claude's AI-generated text a 'perversion of writing' and 'patently offensive,' arguing that Claude should choose the best words for users rather than words th…
An expert witness retained by 3M used ChatGPT to draft most of his report for a civil trial over a fatal Houston industrial explosion, feeding the chatbot an explicit objective: build a case that left 3M with no responsi…
AskAnyModel AI Pro, a platform that compares responses from 50+ AI models side by side, is available for a one-time $39.99 (MSRP $499) via StackSocial. The tool lets users send one prompt to up to six models at once, inc…
MiniMax, the generative AI company founded by Yan Junjie, is pitching its H3 video model as a generator for animated game sprites, claiming it can maintain consistent character motion across frames where image-generation…