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Meta rolls out Muse, a new AI image generator
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Meta rolls out Muse, a new AI image generator

Meta has launched Muse Image, a new artificial intelligence tool for generating pictures built by Meta Superintelligence Labs. The service carries the…

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Sun 5 Jul 8 stories

  1. Some of the nation’s rich are letting AI teach their kids

    Shaun Johnson, a venture capitalist based in San Francisco, plans to send his children to Forge Prep rather…

    2d ago
  2. Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk

    Amazon Mechanical Turk will stop accepting new customers on July 30, 2026. The announcement on the service website…

    2d ago
  3. Baidu’s “Unlimited OCR” processes dozens of document pages in one pass by treating memory like human forgetting

    Baidu researchers have built an OCR model that handles dozens of document pages in a single inference pass,…

    2d ago
  4. Infuriating Google commercial imagines the founding fathers embracing AI

    A new Google Workspace advertisement imagines the American founding fathers relying on modern collaboration tools to draft the…

    2d ago
  5. Hollywood wants Seedance banned and reportedly also wants to keep using it

    Hollywood wants Seedance banned and reportedly also wants to keep using it Bytedance’s AI video tool Seedance is…

    2d ago
  6. LlamaIndex ‘legal-kb’: Agentic Retrieval over Index v2 with retrieve, find, read, and grep Tools

    LlamaIndex has published legal-kb, a public reference application on GitHub. It is described as a knowledge base for…

    2d ago
  7. Qwen’s Former Lead on What Hybrid Thinking Got Wrong — and Why He Now Backs Agents

    Junyang Lin was the technical lead of Alibaba’s Qwen project. He announced he was stepping down on March…

    2d ago
  8. Structured PDF-to-JSON: A Guide to Open-Source Extraction Models in 2026

    Most enterprise data still sits inside PDFs, scans, and slide decks. Large language models and agents cannot use…

    2d ago

Sat 4 Jul 9 stories

  1. Better Models: Worse Tools

    Armin Ronacher reports that newer Anthropic models like Opus 4.8 and Sonnet 5 frequently call Pi’s edit tool…

    3d ago
  2. New Google commercial imagines a Declaration of Independence written with help from AI

    The 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence arrives with a new Google commercial asking what would have…

    3d ago
  3. It’s a terrible time to buy memory, but a great time to buy synths

    Memory prices are high, but synthesiser and drum machine discounts are active now. While console and computer hardware…

    3d ago
  4. Midjourney wants Hollywood studios to reveal the details of their AI usage

    Midjourney is asking a judge to order Disney, Universal, and Warner Bros to hand over full details of…

    3d ago
  5. What is Mistral AI? Everything to know about the OpenAI competitor

    Following the Trump directive that forced Anthropic to pull its latest models offline, Mistral AI has become the…

    3d ago
  6. The fanfiction community is at war with AI — and itself

    On June 29th, an anonymous account named @heatedrivalryai launched a tool designed to identify fanfiction written by artificial…

    3d ago
  7. OpenAI cofounder envisions “almost no interface” future where nobody learns software anymore

    Greg Brockman, co-founder of OpenAI, states that the company’s 2023 Plugins initiative failed because the underlying models were…

    3d ago
  8. SOLVED: The Case of the Missing Megalodon

    A giant shark vertebrae lost in 1989 has been found, suggesting the extinct Otodus megalodon could have reached…

    3d ago
  9. A 26,000-student study shows AI’s hidden learning cost takes two full years to surface

    Students who use AI to do their homework get better marks on the assignments but lose up to…

    3d ago

Fri 3 Jul 18 stories

  1. Mistral AI Releases Leanstral 1.5: An Apache-2.0 Lean 4 Code Agent Model Solving 587 of 672 PutnamBench Problems

    Mistral AI has launched Leanstral 1.5, a code agent model designed for Lean 4. The system is licensed…

    4d ago
  2. Quoting Josh W. Comeau

    Front-end developer Josh W. Comeau reports that sales for his third course, Whimsical Animations, are currently tracking at…

    4d ago
  3. Open Source AI Gap Map

    Current AI has released a Gap Map index documenting 421 specific open source products within the artificial intelligence…

    4d ago
  4. Designing a Schema-Guided Invoice Intelligence Pipeline with lift-pdf for Accounts-Payable Extraction, Validation, and Ledger Generation

    A new tutorial outlines a method for building an accounts-payable extraction pipeline using synthetic invoice PDFs and a…

    4d ago
  5. The only AI glossary you’ll need this year

    Artificial intelligence is inventing a new vocabulary to describe how it works, filling product meetings and podcasts with…

    4d ago
  6. Download a book on Dutch electronic music history, Philips and beyond, free

    Kees Tazelaar’s book On the Threshold of Beauty is now available for free download. It covers Dutch electronic…

    4d ago
  7. Security vulnerability reports have exploded since AI models started hunting for bugs

    Epoch AI recorded a massive jump in reported security flaws following the release of Anthropic‘s Claude Mythos Preview…

    4d ago
  8. Google DeepMind Unionization Talks Are Off to a Rocky Start

    Negotiations between Google DeepMind and its London staff over unionisation stalled this week after union representatives felt their…

    4d ago
  9. Anthropic wants to develop its own drugs

    Anthropic announced at The Briefing: AI for Science event that it intends to develop its own drugs using…

    4d ago
  10. A behind-the-scenes look at Midjourney’s medical scanner leaves many questions unanswered

    Midjourney has released a twenty-minute video tour of its medical scanner, yet it has not provided substantial proof…

    4d ago
  11. Fancy 100 hard synths in software form? Meet UVI Synth Anthology 5

    UVI has released Synth Anthology 5, a software package containing 300 hardware synthesizers. The update adds 100 new…

    4d ago
  12. Tesla caps employee AI spending at $200 per week

    Tesla has imposed a strict weekly spending limit of $200 on employee AI usage, a policy effective from…

    4d ago
  13. Meta’s AI agent push is moving slower than Zuckerberg planned

    Mark Zuckerberg admitted at an internal meeting on Thursday that Meta’s AI agents are not advancing as quickly…

    4d ago
  14. GPT and Claude failed Bridgewater’s finance tests because the right answers were never public

    Open-source AI model beats GPT and Claude on Bridgewater finance tests Bridgewater Associates and Thinking Machines Lab claim…

    4d ago
  15. Behind the Blog: With Blogs Like These, Who Needs a Private Jet

    The U.S. Supreme Court ruled today in Chatrie v. United States that individuals possess a reasonable expectation of…

    4d ago
  16. Chinese AI video maker Kling raises $2 billion as it gears up for Hong Kong IPO

    Kuaishou has secured approximately $2 billion in funding for its artificial intelligence video unit, Kling, bringing the company’s…

    4d ago
  17. Job openings in music tech this month: Sync music, backyard engineering, lab work at major universities, and more

    Arturia has released the AstroLab 37, but MusicTech is reporting a separate list of career openings in music…

    4d ago
  18. Interfaze Ships diffusion-gemma-asr-small, an Open-Source Diffusion ASR Model Transcribing Six Languages via DiffusionGemma’s Parallel Denoising Decoder

    Interfaze has released diffusion-gemma-asr-small, an open-source speech recognition model that processes audio using a diffusion decoder rather than…

    4d ago

Thu 2 Jul 17 stories

  1. llm-coding-agent 0.1a0

    Release: llm-coding-agent 0.1a0 Simon Willison has published a new Python library built on his evolving LLM library. This…

    5d ago
  2. Meet Alibaba’s Page Agent: A JavaScript In-Page GUI Agent That Controls Web Interfaces With Natural Language Through the DOM

    Alibaba has released Page Agent, a JavaScript library that runs inside web pages to control interfaces using natural…

    5d ago
  3. Anthropic is discussing a new custom chip with Samsung

    Reuters first reported in April that Anthropic was considering producing its own AI chips to address supply shortages.…

    5d ago
  4. Anthropic reportedly explores custom chip manufacturing with Samsung while insisting Nvidia still matters

    Anthropic is in talks with Samsung Electronics about manufacturing a custom AI chip, according to The Information. The…

    5d ago
  5. Understand to participate

    Geoffrey Litt told the audience at AIE yesterday that developers must understand their code to remain useful when…

    5d ago
  6. Short on booth space? AlphaTheta’s new CDJ-1500X multi player packs flagship features into a smaller footprint

    Not every DJ booth has room for a pair of full-size CDJs. With that in mind, AlphaTheta has…

    5d ago
  7. Achieving operational excellence with AI

    Lean Six Sigma and business process management established themselves by imposing order on chaotic operations through statistical rigor…

    5d ago
  8. iZotope is no longer a Native Instruments brand, as it joins Boris FX

    iZotope has left the Native Instruments family to join Boris FX. This move ends iZotope’s time as part…

    5d ago
  9. Can digital avatars unlock a new career path for ‘behind-the-scenes’ songwriters? WeAreMetaMuse thinks so

    “Human heart, digital skin: that’s our motto,” says Kelvin Avon from his Hong Kong studio. He describes the…

    5d ago
  10. AI agents can now complete 16 percent of freelance jobs at pro quality, up from 2.5 percent eight months ago

    The Remote Labor Index shows AI agents completed 16.1 per cent of paid freelance projects at professional quality,…

    5d ago
  11. Yes, the Akai MPC Sample really is that good

    The Akai MPC Sample costs £339 and arrived at The NAMM Show in January 2026 with enough hype…

    5d ago
  12. Companies Are Throttling Employees’ AI Use Because It’s Too Expensive

    Companies in tech, finance, and media are restricting employee access to advanced artificial intelligence models because the cost…

    5d ago
  13. Meta Is Charging a Subscription for Smart Glasses Features. Welcome to the New Era of Consumer Tech

    Meta now requires a paid subscription to access certain features on its smart glasses. The company updated its…

    5d ago
  14. Credits.fm is a free, open music credits database to help artists get paid in the AI era

    Music royalties tech firm Notes.fm has launched Credits.fm, a “free and open music credits database” that aims to…

    5d ago
  15. Menura Audio’s MDFX Delay and Reverb units bring studio-grade effects to the DJ booth

    Menura Audio, the manufacturer behind the MDMX modular DJ mixer, has entered the effects space with the launch…

    5d ago
  16. The Google Health API Got a CLI: ghealth is an Open-Source Tool for Your Fitbit Air Data

    The Google Health API is the official successor to the Fitbit Web API. It targets the Google Health…

    5d ago
  17. Indian tech tycoon bets $30M of his own money to build AI alternative to Microsoft Office

    Indian serial entrepreneur Bhavin Turakhia is making a $30 million personal bet that there is still room for…

    5d ago

Wed 1 Jul 8 stories

  1. Anthropic Redeploys Claude Fable 5 on July 1 After US Export Controls Lift, Adds New Cybersecurity Classifier

    Claude Fable 5 is back online globally on July 1, 2026, following the removal of US export restrictions…

    6d ago
  2. Podcast: The AI Tokenpocalypse Is Here

    Businesses are reducing their artificial intelligence budgets after major providers introduced per-token pricing models. This shift marks the…

    6d ago
  3. Goose, a New Gay Dating App, Appears to Be a Psyop

    A new dating app for gay men called Goose has launched at number 4 in the App Store’s…

    6d ago
  4. The latest AI news we announced in June 2026

    Google announces AI updates for June 2026 Google has announced a series of AI updates for June 2026,…

    6d ago
  5. Ashton Kutcher leaving Sound Ventures to launch new VC firm with Morgan Beller

    Ashton Kutcher is stepping away from Sound Ventures to launch a new venture capital firm with Morgan Beller,…

    6d ago
  6. Cloudflare’s new policy pushes AI companies to pay for publishers’ content

    Cloudflare is enforcing a new rule that blocks mixed-use web crawlers from sites running ads by default. This…

    6d ago
  7. You Can Now Sound the Alarm on AI Behaving Badly

    Writing AI Lab each week means I occasionally encounter AI models that behave badly and bizarrely. Usually, there’s…

    6d ago
  8. Meta follows SpaceX’s playbook and builds a cloud business to sell its spare AI compute to outside customers

    Meta follows SpaceX’s playbook and builds a cloud business to sell its spare AI compute to outside customers…

    6d ago
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