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The publishing industry is reeling after first-time author Jerry Falade was dropped by publisher Minotaur and his agent over suspicions that his crime novel "Call Me, I'll Hide the Body" was written with AI, despite the …
XAI released Grok Imagine Image 2.0 on August 7, 2026, a new model with 8k context supporting text, image, and PDF inputs. The model is available under the identifier grok-imagine-image-2.0, with no retirement date annou…
Amazon released GPT-5.6 Sol (Global) on 2026-07-09, a multimodal model supporting text, image, and PDF inputs with a 1050k context window and 128k max output, available via Amazon Bedrock as global.openai.gpt-5.6-sol. Th…
A Gallup Korea poll of 2,674 students found that 67 percent had used AI in the previous week, with usage highest among high school students at 82.3 percent, as Generation Alpha, born between 2010 and 2024, comes of age i…
Perplexity is taking measurable referral traffic from Google for some publishers in 2026, but it is not a wholesale replacement, according to publisher analytics and Google's public statements. Chartbeat reported a 33% g…
Firebase's Imagen models shut down today, August 17, 2026, after Google moved the deadline twice from an original June 30, 2026 cutoff, according to Firebase's migration guide. The replacement, Gemini image models code-n…
Generative AI is dismantling the core assumptions of the landing page builder market, according to an internal analysis by Landing Builder. The analysis identifies that AI tools now make page creation nearly free, shifti…
The landing page builder market, including Unbounce, Instapage, and Leadpages, is facing disruption from generative AI, according to an internal analysis by Landing Builder. The analysis identifies four assumptions that …
Puck now supports realtime voice chat, powered by gpt-realtime-2.1, which delegates work to the Puck agent running on GPT-5.6 Sol and summarizes responses aloud while full text appears in the thread. The feature enables …
Lightricks released LTX-2.5, a video generation model that produces synchronized video and audio in a single pass, requiring roughly 66GB of VRAM in full precision and 30-35GB in quantized versions. Installation in Comfy…
Google has paused an unannounced AI Overviews experiment that auto-generated unattributed AI images in search results, after recipe publisher Inspired Taste documented the behavior on August 13, 2026. Google's Search VP …
GitHits, a coding tool that provides context from real GitHub implementations, enabled an AI agent to build a more playable Three.js game inspired by The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker compared to an agent without it, a…
AI Avatar, a free app that lets VRoid avatars cheer users in VS Code and browser side panels, has been updated to version 17 with Catbot integration, Cat Mode, and AI Office. The developer added whiskers to the avatar us…
YouTube creators who adopt AI-assisted workflows can cut planning time by 70% and compete with peers publishing three high-quality videos weekly, according to a guide on Tanyan888.com. The guide recommends using LLMs to …
JamesTDG, an independent software creator and digital artist, has contributed to over 20 articles on the Consumer Rights Wiki, documenting anti-consumer practices by companies including Disney, Nintendo, Ubisoft, Valve, …
A developer built AI Prompt Lab, a full-stack application using Java 21, Spring Boot, React 19, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, and OpenRouter, to manage reusable AI prompts as structured assets. The application features authent…
A performance engineer at QAInsights explains common AI buzzwords—machine learning, LLMs, RAG, agents, and hallucinations—using a dosa cloud kitchen analogy, mapping terms like tokens, embeddings, mixture of experts, and…
Arturo Campos, a former marketing consultant, led the development of an AI-powered ad-generation system that contributed to two Effie Awards and drove over 20,000 recharges totaling S/ 726,000 in a two-week pilot via Met…
AI slop, a term for low-quality, mass-produced AI-generated content, is flooding YouTube and other platforms, driven by generative AI's ability to drastically reduce production costs and time. Critics argue it undermines…
Donatello.studio is designing an 'unlimited' generative AI product that avoids hard quotas by using credits, priority queues, and fair-use controls. The architecture distinguishes access from execution priority, allowing…