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AI Tools & Apps

Alexa+ launches for all users, now accessible via Alexa.com browser

At CES, Amazon made it official: Alexa+ is now available to all users. But the real twist isn’t just the smart speaker upgrade, it’s that you can...

LLMs & Generative AI

Open Plug‑and‑Play Tool Aims to Enable One‑Step High‑Fidelity Video Diffusion

The race to make diffusion models fast has produced breakthroughs, and fragmentation.

Research & Benchmarks

Google DeepMind staff request physical safety from ICE agents in offices

Google DeepMind staff have added a stark new item to their job descriptions: keeping U.S.

LLMs & Generative AI

Google Search adds AI Overviews with follow‑up questions, says VP Robby Stein

Google Search used to return a list. Now it offers an answer, and then it waits for your next question.

Business & Startups

Contextual AI unveils Agent Composer, hits top FACTS benchmark score

The new standard for AI trustworthiness just got a hard reset. Contextual AI didn’t just beat Google’s FACTS benchmark, they topped it, proving that...

Research & Benchmarks

Animators and AI Researchers Build ‘Dear Upstairs Neighbors’ Despite Unique Style

Animation production is a machine designed to grind down weirdness. The system wants consistency, not wild, painterly specificity.

Open Source

Moonshot AI launches Kimi K2.5, open‑source LLM that outperforms Opus 4.5

The old playbook for AI scalability, bigger models, more parameters, is crumbling. Moonshot AI just tossed it aside.

Business & Startups

Pinterest to lay off up to 700 staff (~15%) by Sept 30 to focus on AI

Pinterest is cutting 700 jobs. That’s 15% of its workforce, gone by September 30th. The company is betting everything on AI.

LLMs & Generative AI

Light field holograms top AI visualization stack, recreating digital objects

Light field holograms just became the final boss of AI visualization. They beat everything else. This isn't about better pixels or more immersive VR.

Business & Startups

Mistral releases Vibe 2.0, an AI agent for file editing beyond coding

The line between coding and every other kind of digital work just got fuzzier. Mistral’s Vibe 2.0 isn’t another copilot for writing code, it’s an...

Market Trends

Alex Pretti killing triggers distinct online reaction as counternarrative spreads

The Alex Pretti killing was not just another news alert. It was a stress test for the internet's ability to handle reality.

Business & Startups

Theorem raises USD 6M to close oversight gap in AI-written software

We are building things with code we did not write and cannot possibly read. Theorem, a startup that just raised $6 million, thinks that's a problem...

LLMs & Generative AI

Google Photos adds text prompts for AI photo-to-video generation

Photography has always been about freezing a moment. But what if that moment could move with intention, on your terms, not the algorithm’s?

Policy & Regulation

LexisNexis Chief Says AI Systems for JudgeGPT Have Been Significantly Advanced

The promise of an AI judge, a disembodied oracle dispensing flawless, unbiased rulings, has always been a seductive fantasy.

AI Tools & Apps

Meta to pilot premium subscriptions for Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp

Meta is finally making the turn. The company has spent the last few years throwing billions at AI.

Market Trends

Tech leaders, students weigh daily reliance on AI and safety for kids

Trust in technology is measured at home, by the things we hand to our kids. The people building artificial intelligence are now staring at that test,...

Business & Startups

Anthropic CEO warns of AI dangers as Claude gains interactive apps

Anthropic’s CEO is sounding the alarm just as Claude gets its hands on the apps businesses live inside.

LLMs & Generative AI

Qwen3-Max Thinking Beats Gemini 3 Pro, GPT-5.2 on Humanity's Last Exam

Alibaba's latest model just scored higher on a major benchmark than Google's and OpenAI's best. It didn't win by being bigger.

LLMs & Generative AI

EU probes X over Grok's sexualized deepfake image tools risk assessment

The European Union is turning up the heat on X. Brussels wants to know if Elon Musk’s platform properly assessed the risk before its AI tool, Grok,...

Business & Startups

Enterprise AI pilots fail; firms must treat AI as a capability, not a tool

Most enterprise AI projects end the same way: as expensive disappointments. Companies treat them like fancy new software, a tool to be installed.