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Phil Hedayatnia, a designer and commentator, has compiled an archive of corporate annual reports from 1945 to 1991, highlighting the era when companies invested heavily in graphic design and aesthetics. He expresses conc…
OpenAI rolled out an update to ChatGPT's Google Drive plugin on Aug. 13, enabling Plus, Pro, Enterprise, Edu, Healthcare, and Business subscribers on the web to edit and save Drive files directly within the chatbot windo…
Seth Godin suggests using Anthropic's Claude to generate harsh, critical reviews of one's work as a way to practice receiving criticism and gain perspective, noting that users may find the negative feedback less personal…
Google is developing an AI-powered 'Battery Usage Summaries' feature for Pixel devices, discovered in Android 17 QPR 2 Beta 3, which will use Gemini Nano for on-device analysis of battery usage patterns and provide perso…
Murf AI's $19/mo Creator plan costs $9.50 per hour of voice generation, while LOVO AI's $29/mo Basic plan costs $14.50 per hour, according to a cost breakdown from GLAD-AI-TOR arena data, which shows both tools scoring 6…
Android Authority's Rita El Khoury replaced Duolingo with Google's Gemini AI chatbot for a week to learn Spanish in Mexico, finding it an almost perfect alternative that adapts to her personal needs. She created a custom…
AskAnyModel is offering a lifetime subscription to its AI Pro Plan for $39.99, down from $499, giving users access to over 50 AI models including ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and Gemini in one platform. The plan includes unlim…
More than half of U.S. employees now use artificial intelligence at work, with 51% using it for writing and editing, according to Gallup, and AI agents are increasingly communicating on behalf of humans, as seen in a Blo…
Pearson, the London-based education company that generated 3.58 billion pounds ($4.85 billion) in revenue in 2025, has integrated generative AI across its portfolio since 2023, embedding AI study tools into proprietary a…
IMG.LY's 2026 survey of AI design agents, based on hands-on testing of five of six tools, finds that the choice of agent depends on the type of work and what users retain after generation, rather than a one-size-fits-all…
The US House of Representatives purchased 6,000 Microsoft Copilot licenses in 2025 and approved Claude for official use, but a Washington Post investigation found that AI rules are unenforced, leaving individual offices …
AI-generated wildlife images are endangering animals and people, experts warn, as fact-checkers debunk scores of synthetic visuals circulating on social media. A September study in Conservation Biology, co-authored by Jo…
Typebulb's interactive explainer demonstrates how text watermarking works in a browser, using a secret key to run a tournament between words the model drew so the winner is one it would say. The page includes a full impl…
Andrew Quinn, creator of the open-source project Shell Bling Ubuntu, reports that replacing his hand-authored README.md with a drier, LLM-generated version led to reduced GitHub engagement and stars, citing signaling the…
Perchance AI's platform is designed for extensibility, offering a JavaScript API and community-built wrappers such as a Python package that allow developers to integrate its text and image generators into external applic…
Anthropic has revealed how its Claude AI model secretly watermarks generated text, using low-stakes word choices to embed an undetectable pattern that can be identified with a key. The system, based on Google DeepMind's …
HackEurope 2026, a hackathon spanning three countries, concluded with a grand prize awarded to a team proposing LLM-based wildfire prediction and drone orchestration for cloud seeding, despite the project lacking a funct…
A Hacker News user asked how to identify AI-written articles on the platform, expressing confusion after registering several days ago. The question, posted by user BrucecarlL, seeks guidance on distinguishing AI-generate…
Tracy Durnell argues that generative AI is widely considered inauthentic in creative work, citing Virginia Postrel's three meanings of authenticity—purity, tradition, and aura—and noting that audiences now assume digital…
A developer built Good Boy Amnesia, a detective game where an AI agent's memory lifecycle—remember, recall, memify, forget—serves as the core gameplay, visualized through a live 3D knowledge graph in Three.js. Players co…