Yahoo Scout looks like a more web-friendly take on AI search
Yahoo Scout looks like a more web-friendly take on AI search

Yahoo’s big AI play is, in many ways, actually a return to the company’s roots. Three decades ago, Yahoo was known as “Jerry’s guide to the world wide web,” and was designed as a sort of all-encompassing portal to help people find good stuff on an increasingly large, hard-to-parse internet. In the early aughts, the […]

China’s Moonshot releases a new open-source model Kimi K2.5 and a coding agent

The company said that the model was trained on 15 trillion mixed visual and text tokens.

How To Become AI Native In 2026

What does it mean to be AI Native? Is it the same as AI Literate or AI Fluent? How can I become AI Native and how will it help me professionally?

Pinterest cuts workforce by around 15 percent to focus on AI
Pinterest cuts workforce by around 15 percent to focus on AI

Pinterest is planning to lay off hundreds of workers and reduce its office space to reallocate resources for its artificial intelligence initiatives. In a regulatory filing posted Tuesday, Pinterest says the reduction is expected to impact “less than 15 percent” of its current workforce, and that the layoffs should be complete by September 30th, 2026. […]

Node-based design tool Flora raises $42M from Redpoint Ventures

Flora’s node-based design tool is being used by companies like Pentagram and Lionsgate.

Virtuix Takes VR Locomotion Public With Nasdaq Debut

Virtuix begins trading on Nasdaq under VTIX as the VR treadmill maker scales Omni One, reports 138 percent revenue growth, and expands consumer, enterprise, and defense markets.

Google Photos now lets you describe how to transform images into video
Google Photos now lets you describe how to transform images into video

Google is giving Photos users more control over the app’s generative AI photo-to-video feature. Google Photos now supports text prompts for video generation, according to the update announcement on Monday, allowing users to describe the specific movement, style, or effect they want to see when bringing still images to life. Text prompts join the existing […]

All rise for JudgeGPT
All rise for JudgeGPT

Bridget McCormack is used to correcting judges’ work. As the former chief justice on the Michigan Supreme Court, it was her job to review complaints about how judges at the lower courts failed to consider key evidence or rule on certain aspects of a case. In her current job, McCormack is working on a new […]

AI Won’t Save Your Business. Your Brand Might.

What’s your competitive advantage when AI can do everything everyone does? 20 years of Kantar’s BrandZ data point to one answer: brand equity.

Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp will test premium subscriptions
Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp will test premium subscriptions

Meta is gearing up to trial new premium subscriptions for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp in the coming months that will allow users to access expanded AI capabilities and additional features. TechCrunch reports that the upcoming subscription plans aim to “unlock more productivity and creativity” by providing premium users with “more control over how they share […]