Mike Veerman's HTML app simulates LLM token output speeds from 5 to 800 tokens/second, helping users visualize the real meaning of speed claims.

New Visa research calls AI-accelerated scams 'the fastest growing source of consumer harm.' Here's what you need to watch out for.

As AI coding tools become more accessible, non-developers are creating apps that fulfill niche needs. Google I/O 2026 showcased AI Studio updates for native Android app creation, prompt-based widgets, and hints at a shift to mobile vibe coding. Apple is reportedly working on prompt-based shortcuts.

IBM announces expansion of its enterprise security program for the AI era, partnering with Anthropic as a member of Project Glasswing, an industry initiative to defend critical software infrastructure. New tools include IBM Concert and IBM Autonomous Security to combat AI-powered attacks.

Tribal announced a $10 million seed round led by Team8 to expand its metadata-native AI agent platform, which maps enterprise systems' metadata layers to deliver production-ready solutions with governance. The platform integrates with Salesforce, SAP, and other major systems, aiming to turn AI experiments into repeatable business impact.

Alibaba launches new AI chips and model, reducing reliance on Nvidia and advancing its full-stack AI strategy.

Voice agents, live captioning, contact center analytics, and accessibility tools all depend on real-time speech-to-text, where your application streams audio in and receives transcription back simultaneously over a single persistent connection. Traditional request-response inference falls short here because transcription cannot begin until the entire audio recording has been received, adding latency that breaks the real-time experience these workloads require.

A letter highlights the irony of Nobel peace laureate Abiy Ahmed imprisoning activists while other laureates call for Iran to release a sick activist. Another letter notes that AI job losses are causing graduates to move back home, adding to social unrest concerns.

MartinLoop is the control room for AI coding agents, providing spend limits, proof checks, safety rules, rollback, and run receipts to make autonomous agents accountable.

Google announced a new YouTube Shorts Remix feature that lets users restyle clips or insert themselves into others' videos using Gemini Omni. Creators can disable remixing, and remixed shorts will have a digital watermark linking back to the original.

By mid-2026, AI has moved beyond experimentation into products, workplaces, and governments. This article lists the top 9 AI conferences and events in 2026, including Data + AI Summit, The AI Summit London, DataHack Summit, SuperAI, World Summit AI, Ai4, AI for Good Global Summit, AI Infra Summit, and The AI Conference. Each event offers unique opportunities to learn about AI trends, network with professionals, and understand enterprise adoption.

Virtualitics and OpenAI signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly provide decision intelligence for complex, critical workloads, integrating OpenAI's frontier models into Virtualitics Iris agentic AI for readiness.

Learn how to utilize Python's Mimesis library for anonymizing sensitive production data, based on a step-by-step example to try yourself.

Google expands AI to ads, using Gemini to generate product recommendations and explanations, introducing chatbot-enabled ads, and testing new ad formats in AI Mode.

Google's new Universal Cart consolidates products from multiple retailers into one place, powered by Gemini agentic AI that suggests purchases and automates checkout.

Simon Willison analyzes Google I/O 2026's Gemini Spark, a personal AI agent integrated with Google apps, noting confusion over the Antigravity platform. He discusses security measures (isolated VMs, DLP) and prompt injection risks, and highlights the deprecation of the open-source Gemini CLI in favor of the closed-source Antigravity CLI.

Jonathan Frankle discusses the lottery ticket hypothesis, for which he won the 2023 AAAI/ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award. He covers empiricism vs. theoretical proofs, the shift in computer science methodology, the pressure on young researchers to deliver impact, and his current focus on evaluating how well AI systems work in practice.

Exclusive: Electoral Commission calls for new controls as Demos finds tools made up fake scandals, invented candidates or gave wrong date

datasette-agent-charts 0.1a1 release with improved color schemes, permission checks, interactive tooltips, and a bug fix.

Canonical's Ubuntu Core 26 is a minimal, immutable Linux distro for IoT and edge devices with 15 years of support. It enhances security via signed snaps, TPM-sealed encryption, and OP-TEE integration to meet EU's Cyber Resilience Act. Chisel build system reduces image size by 7%, OTA updates shrink 50-90%, and Livepatch now supports ARM64.

Exclusive: Google DeepMind agrees to Acas talks after workers sign petitions about governments' use of AI for defence and intelligence

Almost half of US professionals say 'workslop' (AI-generated low-quality content) makes them more cautious about using AI. Top risks include lower trust (57%), reduced productivity (51%), and reputation damage (46%). Solutions involve rethinking productivity with an 'AI-first, human second' approach and persisting with AI tools through continuous effort.

We're about to find out if systems like SynthID and C2PA can effectively combat deepfakes. Google expands SynthID verification to Chrome and Search, also checking C2PA metadata. OpenAI adds SynthID to its images. Meta will use C2PA on Instagram. But challenges remain: metadata easily stripped, open-source models not adopting, and Google's dual role as AI creator and solution provider.

ZhiXiang Future unveiled the HiDream-O1-Image-Pro, a 200B+ parameter native omnimodal image model based on the Unified Transformer architecture, achieving new SOTA across benchmarks. The company secured another round of hundred-million-level funding from investors including Shenzhen Capital Group and Jinpu Capital. It also introduced a 'Model + Agent' strategy with three agent products and signed partnerships with multiple enterprises, advancing toward a world model.

The deals involve some of the most prominent brands in generative AI.

The author's latest demo of Google's Android XR reference glasses and Project Aura shows Gemini-powered capabilities like adding events to calendar, editing photos, and cross-app integration, suggesting ambient AI is the future of wearables.

For years, AI assistants have fallen short of promises. But the open-source platform OpenClaw has changed expectations, and Google is now leveraging its ecosystem to launch powerful new agents like Gemini Spark at I/O 2026. With continuous background operation, deep integration, and a new cost-efficient model, Google aims to make agents truly useful—or risk the entire concept.

As the Token economy accelerates, domestic AI computing faces new opportunities. Hong Yuan, Chief Product Officer of TaiChu Yuanqi, pointed out that future computing needs to address three key issues: large-scale cluster service capability, computing efficiency, and ecosystem compatibility. Heterogeneous collaboration will become an important direction for AI computing infrastructure.

This article discusses governing AI agents at scale using Unity Catalog and Unity AI Gateway. It posits that AI governance is fundamentally data governance, and introduces four pillars: delegated access, data-centric AI governance, cost intelligence, and open interoperability. These approaches help organizations balance innovation and risk while ensuring security and compliance.

AutoSubtitles 2.0 is a browser-based AI subtitle generator for creating animated captions and engaging video content. It offers accurate subtitles in 20+ languages, timeline and canvas editing, viral-style caption presets, and AI enhancements like automatic emojis. All processing happens client-side, eliminating the need for video uploads or complex software.