A24's youngest director Kane Parsons, 20, slams generative AI as 'genuinely harmful' and a sign of 'cultural rot,' vowing to never use it creatively while planning to explore its societal impact in future films.
Slack's Workflow Builder is transforming workplace productivity, now powering over 3 million daily automations and delivering up to 35% time savings, with companies like Wayfair reclaiming 25,000 hours annually and Canva slashing meeting times by over 90% using AI-driven, no-code automation tools.
A new open-source AI hiring agent launches on GitHub, capable of parsing resumes, analyzing GitHub activity, and delivering scored, explainable candidate evaluations using either local Ollama models or Google Gemini for flexible, privacy-conscious deployment.
Miso Labs launches MisoTTS, an open-source 8-billion-parameter text-to-speech model now live on Hugging Face, featuring voice cloning, highly emotive conversational speech, and built-in audio watermarking for safety.
PRIME-RL launches as a fully open-source reinforcement learning framework capable of scaling to 1000+ GPUs and trillion-parameter models, supporting major AI model families with asynchronous training, multimodal capabilities, and flexible multi-node deployment under the Apache 2.0 license.
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is raising $7.4 billion in its first-ever funding round, valuing the company at up to $59 billion, with founder Liang Wenfeng personally committing $3 billion and Tencent eyeing a major stake, as China accelerates its push for AI dominance following DeepSeek's models shaking confidence in U.S. …
Morgan Stanley is opening its stock administration platforms to external AI agents, allowing corporate clients to autonomously interact with firm systems without traditional logins — a bold move that puts the bank ahead of Wall Street rivals like JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs, with plans to expand access to all 3,400 …
Meta taps 28-year-old Scale AI co-founder Alexandr Wang to lead a secretive AI lab called TBD, assembling 100 elite researchers and releasing a competitive new model as Zuckerberg races to close the gap with OpenAI and Google — but internal tensions, setbacks, and rival speed are threatening to slow the …
Sentry launches AI agent integration via its CLI, enabling developers to automatically generate custom dashboards tailored to their codebase by connecting tools like Claude Code, which can build, edit, and delete widgets tracking errors, performance, and user flows without manual configuration.
Anthropic's Claude Code team is abandoning six-month roadmaps in favor of rapid, just-in-time planning as agentic AI eliminates coding bottlenecks, reshapes team roles, and shifts human focus toward security, product judgment, and creative systems thinking.