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A.G. Cook’s trademark supersaw sound has helped define modern pop music – now it’s wrapped up in a single soft synth from Native Instruments
Native Instruments has released Super*Saw, a software synthesiser co-developed with A.G. Cook. The tool codifies the supersaw texture found in Charli xcx’s…
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Tue 14 Jul 14 stories
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AI Made Cloning Games Easier Than Ever
Freya Holmér’s had this idea in her head for a long time—Tetris, but the whole board rotates. The…
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ChatGPT returns to WhatsApp in Europe after EU forces Meta to open the door to rival AI bots
OpenAI has re-enabled ChatGPT on WhatsApp for users within the European Economic Area, a move following a European…
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Google’s Demis Hassabis says it’s time for a global AI watchdog — led by the US
Demis Hassabis has proposed creating a global artificial intelligence watchdog led by the United States to regulate frontier…
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Safari Audio expands its virtual synth collection with vintage Juno-style PolyRex
Safari Audio has released PolyRex, a new virtual synthesiser plugin designed to emulate the sound of the Roland…
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The Chatbot That Foretold Why People Share Secrets With ChatGPT
ELIZA, a program running on an IBM 7090 at MIT in 1966, was designed to simulate a Rogerian…
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Can Meaw Chain make “vibe mixing” a thing?
The cost is £60, available now at safariaudio.com. Great sound rarely comes from a single tool. It comes…
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New York becomes the first state to enact a data center moratorium
Governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive order blocking new environmental permits for hyperscale data centres exceeding 50 megawatts…
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DOGE Used AI for Housing Policy. The Government Won’t Say How
A team from the Department of Government Efficiency used artificial intelligence to shape housing policy at the Department…
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How Auntie Flo’s ‘Plants Can Dance’ compilation celebrates a new species of producers
Brian D’Souza, who performs as Auntie Flo, has released Plants Can Dance. This compilation gathers electronic producers who…
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Mistral AI Releases Robostral Navigate: An 8B Model Enabling Robots to Navigate Complex Environments Using a Single RGB Camera
Mistral AI has launched Robostral Navigate, an 8B-parameter model designed to guide robots through complex spaces using only…
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Meet Blume: An Open-Source, Zero-Config Documentation Framework That Ships AI-Ready Docs From a Markdown Folder
Hayden Bleasel from OpenAI released Blume, an open-source documentation framework, on 14 July 2026. The project shipped to…
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Already rich, already successful, why the last wave of tech winners is grinding again
Tom Blomfield has left his role mentoring founders at Y Combinator to join Anthropic as a member of…
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Using uvx in GitHub Actions in a cache-friendly way
Simon Willison has published a method to cache Python tools invoked via uvx within GitHub Actions workflows. He…
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Uber’s product chief on hotels, robotaxis, and why the company doesn’t want to be “everything for everyone”
Uber adds hotels, boat rentals, and a data-gathering vehicle fleet Uber has quietly expanded beyond ride-hailing and delivery.…
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Mon 13 Jul 18 stories
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DOOMQL
Peter Gostev built DOOMQL, a Doom-like game where SQLite functions as the engine rather than just a data…
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Siri AI Is Becoming Apple’s Everything Tool
Apple’s latest public beta for iOS 27 introduces a new version of the smartphone assistant known as Siri…
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Siri AI is already changing how I use my iPhone
Apple has released the first public beta of iOS 27, marking a shift from feature-heavy updates to a…
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Podcast: Liberation, Eroticism, and Sex in Public (with Angela Jones)
Dr Angela Jones has released a new podcast episode discussing their book Sex in Public. The interview explores…
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OpenAI’s new prompting guide tells users to stop overthinking and start with the result
OpenAI has consolidated its prompting advice into a single guide written for everyday users, not developers The focus…
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Should AI help you get away with killing your spouse?
Quick question: Do you want AI to be so well trained, it could help husbands (or wives, for…
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Anthropic starts localizing Claude pricing for India, its biggest market after the US
Anthropic has introduced rupee pricing for Claude in India, its second-largest market after the United States, as global…
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Now, defenders are embracing the prompt injection, too
Researchers from Tracebit discovered that inserting malicious commands alongside stored credentials on AWS can force AI hacking agents…
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Tom Oberheim: “The history books say I was involved in creating MIDI – that’s such a joke”
Tom Oberheim refuses to accept the credit history books give him for creating MIDI, calling the claim a…
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Music industry proposes new system to tag AI-generated songs: “Fans want to know whether and how generative AI has been used in the music they listen to”
The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry and the Recording Industry Association of America are launching a voluntary…
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Google’s SensorFM turns messy wearable sensor data into a general-purpose health intelligence layer
Google Research introduces SensorFM, a model trained on over a trillion minutes of data from five million Fitbit…
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“Think Google Docs meets a creative sandbox like Fortnite or Minecraft”: Audiotool 3.0 turns its multiplayer online DAW into an open platform for creator-built music tools
Audiotool 3.0 has launched as a complete rebuild of the browser-based DAW, introducing real-time multiplayer creation for web…
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Stanford Researchers Introduce TRACE: A Capability-Targeted Agentic Training System That Turns Recurrent Agent Failures Into Synthetic RL Environment
A Stanford team has released TRACE, an open-source system that converts repeated agent failures into specific training data.…
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Waze is getting a bunch of new AI-powered features
Waze is updating its voice reporting system to accept natural language instructions instead of rigid keyword phrases. Google…
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I’ve used the Palmer Orbit 11s monitors daily since they launched — the hype is real!
Palmer has released a three-way active monitor with a cardioid response and a frequency range extending to 28Hz,…
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Anthropic extends free Fable 5 access for subscribers as OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol heats up the pricing war
Anthropic has extended free access to Claude Fable 5 for Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise subscribers until 19…
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shot-scraper 1.11
Simon Willison has released version 1.11 of shot-scraper, a Python tool designed for web scraping and data extraction.…
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Directly Responsible Individuals (DRI)
Simon Willison defines a Directly Responsible Individual as the person ultimately accountable for the success or failure of…
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Sun 12 Jul 10 stories
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sqlite-utils 4.1.1
Simon Willison has released version 4.1.1 of sqlite-utils, a command-line tool for managing SQLite databases. The update addresses…
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Guide to Loop Engineering: How ‘autoresearch’ and ‘Bilevel Autoresearch’ Turn AI Agents Into Autonomous Machine Learning ML Research Loops
Most people still use AI like a 2015 search box. You type, you read, you type again. A…
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Lorde says Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses are ‘not sexy’
Lorde addressed the audience at the Real Cool Festival in Madrid by criticising the aesthetic of artificial intelligence…
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Tom Oberheim at 90: “I can never retire, first of all”
Four days before his 90th birthday, Tom Oberheim recalls staying awake in his Atlanta hotel room in 1979,…
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Apple’s failed self-driving car program left a legacy of powerful AI chips
Apple’s self-driving car project never launched as a consumer product, yet the research required to attempt it directly…
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Meta kills Muse Image feature that let anyone generate AI photos of Instagram users without consent
Meta has removed a specific function from its Muse Image model that allowed users to generate AI portraits…
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The fight against AI data centers is just beginning
Protesters in Mount Carmel Township Northumberland County have erected yard signs opposing a planned AI data center along…
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AI agents win at Slay the Spire 2 after researchers replace growing chat logs with structured memory
AI agents beat Slay the Spire 2 by swapping chat logs for structured memory Frontier models have repeatedly…
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Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab Makes The Technical Case For Human-Centered AI Built On Customizable Model Weights
Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab released a report arguing that current AI models are too static to serve…
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sqlite-utils 4.1
Release: sqlite-utils 4.1 The first dot-release since 4.0 a few days ago, introducing a number of minor new…
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Sat 11 Jul 5 stories
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OpenAI bets on families as ChatGPT goes deeper into households
OpenAI has hired a product manager in San Francisco to build features for families, caregivers, and older adults.…
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Meta’s Muse Spark 1.1 outperforms GLM-5.2 in coding and costs slightly less
Meta has released Muse Spark 1.1, an updated version of its Muse Spark model that scores higher than…
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China’s Orca world model matches specialized robotics systems without ever seeing a single action label
BAAI’s Orca world model matches specialised robotics systems without ever seeing a single action label BAAI has released…
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OpenAI’s Head of Safety Is Leaving the Company
Johannes Heidecke, OpenAI‘s head of safety systems, informed staff this week that he is leaving the company. WIRED…
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Meta removes controversial AI feature on Instagram after backlash
Meta has removed a specific Instagram function that permitted users to generate AI images referencing photos from public…
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Fri 10 Jul 13 stories
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Apple sues OpenAI for allegedly stealing hardware secrets
Apple has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI alleging that former employees stole hardware trade secrets to aid the…
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Kyutai Releases MuScriptor: An Open-Weight Decoder-Only Transformer for Multi-Instrument Music Transcription to MIDI
Kyutai and Mirelo have released MuScriptor, an open-weight model designed to transcribe multi-instrument audio mixes into MIDI. The…
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AI Fiction Is Easy to Detect Because It’s Stupid and Bad, Research Finds
Fiction generated by artificial intelligence is easy to spot because the output often lacks complex story structures and…
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OpenAI staffer maps out which of GPT-5.6 Sol’s five reasoning levels fits which task complexity
OpenAI employee Vaibhav Srivastav has published a guide detailing how the five reasoning tiers of GPT-5.6 Sol correspond…
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Behind the Blog: The Promise of the Internet
Jason Kottke is writing this post from Heathrow Airport while on a layover before returning to the US.…
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CVC private equity now has a majority stake in DistroKid, music distribution
CVC Capital Partners has acquired a majority stake in DistroKid, while Insight VC retains a significant minority position.…
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Quoting Nilay Patel
Nilay Patel, writing for The Verge, argues that building practical augmented reality glasses requires continuous video recording and…
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“Kill complexity”: Maono launches no-nonsense audio interfaces aimed at content creators
Maono has released the P1 and P2 hybrid audio interfaces to address the workflow challenges faced by creators…
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Splice has expanded Spitfire Audio’s Originals virtual instrument range with four new libraries
Splice has announced four new Spitfire Audio Originals libraries alongside an upgrade to the full fidelity of the…
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Instagram’s Adam Mosseri: If you don’t like AI, ‘then you shouldn’t have it in your feed’
Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram, stated during a podcast interview that users who dislike artificial intelligence should simply…
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The Fed wants AI investor Marc Andreessen to help figure out if AI can tame inflation
Fed Chair Kevin Warsh has appointed venture capitalist Marc Andreessen to advise the Federal Reserve on how artificial…
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OpenAI kills its Atlas browser after just eight months and folds everything into ChatGPT
OpenAI has discontinued its Atlas browser project less than eight months after its launch in October 2025. The…
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Bun ditches Zig for Rust with help from Claude Fable 5, writes over a million lines of code in 11 days
Bun has completely rewritten its core engine in Rust, abandoning Zig after the previous language caused persistent memory…
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