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Higgsfield's Cully Hill Boys is one of the AI films that comes closest to a traditionally produced feature. The Verge's review argues its strength comes from a script by a real screenwriter and from directors named in the prompts.
Google has announced a tap to share feature that sends files and contact information by touching two phones together. It reaches Pixel 6 and newer devices first, with Samsung models next.
At its Made by Google event on 13 August 2026, Google introduced the Pixel 11 series, the Pixel Watch 5 and Pixel Tag, its AirTag rival. Gemini features spread further across the devices.
In an informal ZDNET survey of 138 developers, three out of four said they use Claude Code. The write-up stresses that cost, workflow and trust matter as much as code quality.
Microsoft is combining its consumer and commercial Copilot apps into a single interface. Mobile and web roll out in mid-August, Windows and Mac in mid-September. The step is groundwork for a 'super app' later this year.
Your AI Slop Bores Me is a web game where users take turns asking and roleplaying as the AI. Whoever is playing the AI gets 150 seconds to answer, and a credit system imitates a real model.
OpenAI has released a Linux preview of the ChatGPT desktop app. Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora are supported; Arch and NixOS users are left out. The app is Electron-based and proprietary.
Suno is turning its AI music platform into a chat-driven studio. MIDI support, automation and effects bring it closer to a real production tool; the chat interface leaves the user with less to do.
Artificial Analysis has launched Optima, a platform letting users build custom benchmarks from their own data and workflows, comparing models on cost and time as well as quality.
The California Public Utilities Commission has approved Waymo's robotaxi service expanding across 18 counties from Sonoma down to San Diego — its largest expansion yet.
OpenAI's Computer History records clicks, keystrokes and app switches on Mac and turns them into a searchable timeline for ChatGPT and Codex.
Google is adding Gemini-based AI summary and reporting tools to its Ads and Analytics platforms. The new tools aim to speed up performance insights and enable benchmarking.
OpenAI has previewed Ultrafast, a mode that runs GPT-5.6 Sol up to 14x faster on Cerebras hardware, turning inference speed into a separate pricing tier.
Fred Schott, creator of Astro, has built version 2 of his agent framework Flue on React-style hooks. An agent is now a function that re-renders every turn.
NVIDIA argues the constraint is not how many watts are consumed but how power gets from the grid to the chip. An 800-volt DC architecture removes conversion stages.
Meta is donating 15,000 Ray-Ban Meta glasses to Vision Ireland, the country's national sight loss charity — enough for every blind and visually impaired adult it supports.
Anthropic has Claude Code running daily maintenance on its internal apps. Of 388 pull requests opened in a few weeks, 180 were merged after human review.
Edward Warchocki in Poland, Rizzbot in Austin and Bart Robot in New York are the same device: the Unitree G1. The company goes public in about two weeks.
DeepSeek has announced DeepSeek Harness, an open-source agent framework for developers, alongside its updated flagship model V4-Pro; meanwhile, API prices are set to rise.
World Labs, founded by Fei-Fei Li, has unveiled its Real-to-Sim-to-Real engine, which turns a single real robot task into thousands of simulated variations.
Amazon Web Services introduced the Bedrock AgentCore Browser Tool, letting AI agents manage legacy web applications without modern APIs through secure browser sessions.
Developer Simon Willison used Codex and the GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra model to produce the first alpha release of alchemy-utils, a database-agnostic version of his sqlite-utils library.
Anthropic announced that text generated by Claude models now includes an embedded watermark, indicating the likelihood that text was produced by Claude, though it disappears in full rewrites.
Google introduced an option to disable the visible watermark on images, videos, and songs generated with Nano Banana, Omni, and Lyria models. The invisible SynthID watermark and C2PA metadata remain unchanged.