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AI star Tilly Norwood shocked Hollywood. Now her creator plans for 40 more
Eline Van der Velden, the actress and creator of viral AI star Tilly Norwood, says her studio is developing 40 more digital actors.
Scaling an AI Supernova: Lessons from Anthropic, Cursor, and fal
SaaS frameworks are collapsing under AI’s speed and scale. Here’s how founders are rewriting the rules of growth, pricing, and go-to-market.
Intuition and gut feel still matter in the age of AI
Your gut isn’t outdated — it’s the edge AI still needs. When instinct and data work together, that’s where real breakthroughs happen.
SoftBank’s OpenAI wager in focus as analysts upgrade share price target
TOKYO (Reuters) -Technology investor SoftBank Group reports second quarter earnings results on Tuesday in the midst of feverish investment in artificial intelligence that has sent its share price soaring. But...
China’s new scientist visa is a ‘serious bid’ for the world’s top talent
Nature – The country is easing migration for young researchers to boost its competitiveness in artificial intelligence, robotics and new materials.
Artificial Intelligence Wants to Sell You Stuff While the World Burns
Meta is betting on generative AI for a new generation of aggressive advertising. It requires immense energy, much of which will likely come from fossil fuels.
Comprehensive echocardiogram evaluation with view primed vision language AI
Nature – Comprehensive echocardiogram evaluation with view primed vision language AI
Ethically sourced image data set encourages fairness in AI research
Nature – AI systems rely on data that often lack diversity, perpetuate biases and violate intellectual-property rights. An ethical human-image data set addresses these problems.
The 450 Movement. I do peer review and I want you to pay…
James Heathers, Medium, Nov 10, 2025 At $450 per review, I confess that I would probably rescind my longstanding personal policy of not doing peer reviews and maybe start doing...
The Microchip Era Is About to End
George Gilder, Discovery Institute, Nov 10, 2025 George Gilder, in a Wall Street Journal article last week (paywalled, but archived at GgNZ0), wrote that “the end of chips” is coming....
Building Production Analytics with PostHog: A Complete Implementation Guide
I needed analytics for my projects, but I wanted something that wouldn’t break the bank or require a PhD to set up. I tried a few options, but PostHog ended...
AI country singer Breaking Rust tops Billboard with ‘Walk My Walk’
A country hit made by artificial intelligence has climbed to the top of a Billboard chart — a first for the genre.
Understanding the nuances of human-like intelligence | Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Associate Professor Phillip Isola studies the ways in which intelligent machines “think,” in an effort to safely integrate AI into human society.
Google Photos now has six more AI-powered features
Google Photos introduced a fresh batch of a half-dozen AI-powered features today.
David S. Hall Announces Cam-Lidar Technology for Drone Defense
Revolutionary invention uses lidar, camera, and AI for next-gen aerospace tracing
Revolutionizing Machine Vision: Kyocera Unveils Triple Lens AI Depth Sensor for Advanced Object Recognition
New high-resolution camera detects fine and semi-transparent objects, paving the way for improved inspection processes, surgical and agricultural robots
We ran over 600 image generations to compare AI models
We benchmarked OpenAI gpt-image-1, Google nanoBanana, and Seedream across 600+ real-world photo edits, see latency, cost, and quality by task
AI chatbots are helping hide eating disorders and making deepfake ‘thinspiration’
Chatbot guardrails are too crude to help with eating disorders.
How Artificial Intelligence Can Unlock the Next Level of Energy Flexibility
Discover how AI enables energy flexibility by optimizing grid planning, forecasting, and operations for a resilient, sustainable power future
It’s time to reckon with the geopolitics of artificial intelligence
The world has entered the most consequential tech race since the dawn of the nuclear age, but this time the weapons are algorithms instead of atoms.
An Algorithmic Loosening of the Atomic Screw? Artificial Intelligence and Nuclear Deterrence
“It did not take atomic weapons to make man want peace. But the atomic bomb was the turn of the screw. The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war...
Beyond Shift Left: How “Shifting Everywhere” With AI Agents Can Improve DevOps Processes
Explore the ways in which AI tools can help businesses optimize DevOps and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.
Wikipedia Wants AI to Pay Up
Wikipedia just told the AI industry to stop scraping and start subscribing. In a blog post Monday, the Wikimedia Foundation urged AI developers to access its content through Wikimedia Enterprise,...
Leading AI companies keep leaking their own information on GitHub
65% of the top AI firms had leaked tokens and keys
Apple is starting to look like an AI winner thanks to one advantage
Apple is starting to look more like an AI winner thanks to its unique advantage as the platform owner, which two recent reports highlight.
Wonderful raised $100M Series A to put AI agents on the front lines of customer service
Israeli AI agent startup Wonderful has raised $100 million in a Series A round led by Index Ventures, with participation from Insight
Meta AI Transcribes 500 Niche Languages for the First Time, Admits It’s Not Perfect
The system also allows people to upload their own voice snippets, which Meta says is a more scalable way to bridge the digital divide for languages that are underrepresented online.
The European Artificial Intelligence Regulation: innovating with confidence and responsibility
Find out more about The European Artificial Intelligence Regulation: innovating with confidence and responsibility, don’t miss it.
Google Photos lets iPhone users edit images by describing changes
Google’s AI does the actual editing for you.
ElevenLabs’ new AI marketplace lets brands use famous voices for ads
I don’t even know what Amelia Earhart sounds like.
Matthew McConaughey, Michael Caine Ink Deals for AI-Generated Versions of Their Voices With ElevenLabs
Matthew McConaughey and Michael Caine have teamed with AI audio company ElevenLabs to produce virtual replications of their famous voices.
Who Routes LLM Routers?<br /><span style="font-size: 0.7em; font-weight: 500; color: #555;">RouterArena: Building the Evaluation Foundation for LLM Routing</span>
A Blog post by Jiarong Xing on Hugging Face
Google Photos ‘Help me edit’ coming to iOS with Nano Banana, ‘Ask Photos’ search goes global
Google Photos is getting more AI with big updates today for the conversational “Help me edit” experience and Ask Photos search.
“IndonesianFoods” worm publishes more than 64,000 malicious NPM packages
The post “IndonesianFoods” worm publishes more than 64,000 malicious NPM packages appeared first on SourceCodeRed.
Meta to Discontinue Like and Comment Buttons on Third-Party Websites
Thuan Le and Jennifer Lin, of Meta: As Meta’s developer platform continues to evolve, we’re making strategic decisions to focus on tools and features that deliver the most value to...
Using UUIDv7 with Rails without PostgreSQL 18
UUIDv7 was added to PostgreSQL 18 to support time-based UUIDs, but you don’t have to upgrade to take advantage of them now.
Patch Now: Critical Windows Vulnerability CVE-2025-24054 Actively Exploited in the Wild
CVE-2025-24054 (once CVE-2025-24071), a critical NTLM hash leak vulnerability in Windows File Explorer, is actively exploited. Patch Now! This post first appeared at – The CyberSec Guru
High-Severity Vulnerability CVE-2024-0670 Puts Checkmk Windows Agents at Risk
A high-severity (CVSS 8.8) vulnerability, CVE-2024-0670, allows local privilege escalation in the Checkmk Windows agent. Learn all the details. This post first appeared at – The CyberSec Guru
Why Your Page Feels Slow (and Hurts Your PageSpeed Score): Render Blocking and Critical CSS Explained
Learn how render blocking CSS slows your site and how Critical CSS can help you boost your PageSpeed score.