A new study testing 1,008 AI-generated SVGs across 48 animal-vehicle combinations finds no evidence that AI labs are secretly 'pelicanmaxxing' — gaming Simon Willison's famous pelican-on-a-bicycle SVG benchmark — with pelicans ranking 6th out of 8 animals in drawing quality, suggesting broad SVG optimization rather than targeted benchmark manipulation.
Samsung unveils AI-powered smart glasses with Warby Parker and Gentle Monster, featuring Gemini AI, a camera, open-ear speakers, and 9 hours of battery life — directly challenging Meta's Ray-Ban glasses with a fall launch.
Claude Code Desktop launches a public beta iOS Simulator pane on macOS, enabling AI and users to simultaneously build, test, and interact with iOS apps in real time within a shared, isolated simulated environment.
A new open-source C++17 port of ByteDance's Depth Anything 3 model runs up to 1.31x faster than PyTorch on CPU, uses half the memory, loads 6.7x faster, and requires no Python, PyTorch, or CUDA — delivering monocular depth estimation and 3D point cloud export from a single image in a …
San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu orders Apple and Google to remove 13 AI 'nudify' apps from their platforms, citing California deepfake porn laws, as both companies begin compliance amid warnings that such apps have amassed 480 million downloads and $120 million in revenue.
Mira Murati's Thinking Labs debuts Inkling, a massive 975-billion-parameter open-weight AI model capable of reasoning across text, images, and audio with a one-million token context window, but it immediately faces stiff competition from Chinese labs like Kimi, whose K3 model boasts 2.8 trillion parameters and already outperforms it on benchmarks.
Roblox launches 'Build,' a mobile-first AI tab that lets anyone create fully functional games from simple text prompts, with a public alpha rolling out July 28 in New Zealand.
NVIDIA unveils Jetson Thor T3000 and T2000 modules powered by Blackwell architecture, delivering up to 865 FP4 teraflops for edge AI robotics, alongside the Cosmos 3 Edge world model enabling real-time on-device inference, with new agent skills slashing memory usage by up to 15GB — modules set to ship in …
OpenAI's CLIP neural network matches ResNet50's ImageNet performance with zero labeled training data, marking a major breakthrough in computer vision by using natural language instructions instead of task-specific optimization.
Google Images is getting a major Pinterest-style overhaul, introducing a personalized 'For You' gallery, collections, and AI-powered image generation directly within Search, transforming the 25-year-old platform from a simple search tool into a full visual discovery and inspiration destination.