A new open-source tool called 'watermarks-remover' is surging on GitHub with 4.8k stars, offering developers the ability to strip AI watermarks from text and images across multiple file formats — but creators warn it's best-effort only, lossy on statistical watermarks, and intended for legitimate privacy use, not fraudulent claims of …
Google unveils the Pixel 11 at its Made by Google event, introducing AI-powered features like Rambler voice keyboard, Magic Capture photo mode, and multi-step task execution, while strategically avoiding the 'AI' label and rebranding Android as an 'intelligence system' to shift smartphones toward goal-oriented interactions.
Google launches the Pixel 11 lineup starting at $899, bringing powerful Gemini AI capable of handling multistep tasks across 40+ apps and major camera upgrades including Magic Capture and faster Night Sight, with retail availability beginning August 20.
A powerful new open-source inference engine called h3.c now enables native AI video generation on Apple Silicon Macs, slashing render times nearly in half using Metal GPU acceleration and cutting memory usage from 36.5 GiB to just 2 GiB.
QwenLM launches Qwen-MM-Plugins, an open-source plugin system that gives any AI agent powerful multimodal capabilities — including image, video, audio, and document understanding — with modular tools supporting 3D modeling, web search, video editing, and more, compatible with Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini CLI.
Google's Pixel phones are pushing AI photography to unprecedented limits, with generative AI solving once-impossible challenges like low-light and zoom quality, but as features like sky replacement and adding absent people to photos emerge ahead of the Pixel 11 launch, a provocative question looms: at what point does AI-enhanced photography …
OpenAI launches a two-tier Daybreak cybersecurity program featuring GPT-5.6-Cyber, a specialized AI model completing 95% of advanced security requests — compared to just 1.5% for standard models — already uncovering real Chrome vulnerabilities, with strict identity verification and hardware security key requirements to prevent misuse.
Invoke's open-source AI creative engine is surging in popularity with 27.8K GitHub stars, powering visual media generation through Stable Diffusion models, a web-based UI, and support for cutting-edge AI models like Flux and SDXL, backed by a thriving community of 379 contributors.
AI startup Hark launches 'Handoff,' an autonomous web agent claiming a record 97.7 benchmark score and pricing at one-tenth of competitors' costs, backed by a staggering $6 billion valuation — but transparency concerns over its base model, benchmark methodology, and enterprise security leave critical questions unanswered.
NVIDIA launches Alpamayo 2 Super, a commercially available open reasoning model for autonomous vehicles that ranks first on all major autonomous driving benchmarks, outperforming Gemini 2.5 Pro and GPT-4o, while offering developers full fine-tuning and deployment rights under a permissive license.