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“For a long time, the machine itself acted as a gatekeeper”: Teenage Engineering’s new APC-2 wants to make record cutting more accessible than ever
Teenage Engineering has released the APC-2, a 104kg record-cutting lathe designed to replace the need for traditional pressing plants. Developed in partnership…
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Hackers reveal Suno scraped music data from YouTube, Deezer, Genius, and more
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The risk of weather data sabotage is rising
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Reason 14, as reviewed by a Cubase user: “Bells and whistles aren’t always everything”
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Neutone and Roland want you to design your own AI model — and play it live
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My Ebike Delivery Went Missing. When I Tried to Recover It, I Ended Up in Chatbot Hell
A FedEx text confirmed the delivery of my ebike while I was air-frying chicken in the kitchen. The…
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OpenAI’s Codex now encrypts instructions between AI agents, leaving developers blind to internal delegation
OpenAI has encrypted the internal instructions passed between its AI agents, meaning developers can no longer read how…
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I swapped Ableton Live for Fender’s Studio Pro 8.1 DAW – but is it compelling enough for the change to stick?
Fender Studio Pro 8.1 costs £170 for a perpetual licence with one year of updates, or £160 for…
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How Lee “Scratch” Perry taught Mouse on Mars to stop controlling sound
Lee “Scratch” Perry died in 2021 at the age of 85. His final album, Spatial, No Problem, was…
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Google Releases LiteRT.js: A JavaScript Binding of LiteRT That Runs .tflite Models in Browsers via WebGPU
Google has released LiteRT.js, a JavaScript binding that allows .tflite models to run directly in browsers using WebGPU.…
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OpenAI’s first hardware product is a screenless AI speaker designed to feel alive
OpenAI is developing a screenless smart speaker to serve as a personalised companion for the home, though an…
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simonw/pedalican
Simon Willison accidentally activated a new animated pet in Codex Desktop today, discovering he could now create his…
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PrismML Releases Bonsai 27B: 1-bit and Ternary Builds of Qwen3.6-27B That Run on Laptops and Phones
PrismML has released Bonsai 27B. This is a compressed version of Qwen3.6-27B, not a new model trained from…
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OpenAI’s first hardware device is reportedly a screenless speaker that can move
Bloomberg reports that OpenAI’s first hardware product is a screenless speaker capable of physical movement. The device The…
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Lorde says AI glasses are “not sexy”
Lorde told an audience at the Mad Cool Festival in Madrid last week that AI glasses are not…
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OpenAI may announce a ChatGPT smart speaker this year
Reports indicate OpenAI plans to launch a screenless smart speaker running ChatGPT this year. The device will lack…
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lobste.rs is now running on SQLite
The community site Lobsters has switched its backend database from MariaDB to SQLite, a move completed over the…
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OpenCoreDev Releases Domain SDK 0.2.0: One TypeScript API to Add, Verify, and Remove Customer Domains Across Five Platforms
OpenCoreDev has released Domain SDK version 0.2.0, a TypeScript library that standardises how developers add, verify, and remove…
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Google Search now generates AI images when it can’t find what you’re looking for on the web
Google Search now generates AI images directly within its AI Overviews when no matching web results exist. Users…
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Meta’s Adam Mosseri says AI token budgets could soon be capped per engineer
Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram, told Lenny’s Podcast that Meta will likely cap AI token spending for its…
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Celebrating 25 years of visual search innovation
Google Images turns 25 this week. The service launched in July 2001, shifting search from text links to…
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Spotify is now an AI chatbot, too
Spotify Premium subscribers can now interact with a new chatbot interface called Talk to Spotify that allows them…
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The Google Images homepage will recommend photos even before you search
Google is changing its Images homepage to display a curated gallery of photos before users enter any search…
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New York State halts construction of all new data centers
New York State has stopped all new data centre construction after Governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive order…
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YouTube and X Have Become ‘Gateways’ to Nudify Apps
A new report from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue finds that YouTube sent 1.82 million users to sites…
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“A new benchmark for bass”: Baby Audio SubCulture supercharges your bass while keeping it in tune with your track
Baby Audio has released SubCulture, a plugin that increases bass volume while tracking the pitch of the original…
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Novation unveils new 88-key Launchkey MK4 controller – the largest keyboard in the MK4 range yet
Novation’s on a roll: after launching a sleek white edition of its Launchkey 61 MK4 keyboard controller just…
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Superhuman’s new auto-draft feature almost makes me like AI replies
Superhuman has launched an updated auto-draft feature that identifies key emails and generates replies sounding less robotic. The…
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The real AI race may no longer be at the frontier
Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7 sits in seventh place on OpenRouter, trailing six open models from Chinese firms. Open…
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Is the Best Game of the Year a Failure? (With Rob Zacny)
The first-person shooter Marathon has reached thirty million downloads yet has failed to match the commercial success of…
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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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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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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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