Developer Builds Free Photoshop Rival Using GPT-6 Astra
A Reddit developer spent about $2,000 in tokens to build Photon Studio, a free, cross-platform graphics editor written almost entirely by GPT-6 Astra.
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Amazon Uses AI to Match Actors’ Lip Movements to Dubbed Dialogue
Prime Video is adding visual dubbing to Maxton Hall, using AI and visual effects to synchronize actors’ mouths with human-recorded English dialogue.
Meta Launches Muse, a Personal AI Agent That Shops and Acts for You
Meta launched Muse, a personal AI agent that browses, shops and negotiates on a user's behalf, built around an isolated "Secure VM" and a permission-gatekeeping Sentinel...
OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Images 2.5 with Faster Generation and More Precise Editing
OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Images 2.5, a major image-generation upgrade with up to 50% lower latency, better subject fidelity, more reliable multi-turn editing, new Sketch and...
Norway Weighs Facial Recognition Ban for “Pervert Glasses”
Norway plans to regulate camera-equipped smart glasses more strictly, floating a ban on public facial recognition, though critics say it wouldn't stop covert filming.
Apple’s New Mac Mini and Studio Are Built for Running AI Without the Cloud
Apple launched new Mac Mini and Mac Studio models with its M6 and M5 Ultra chips, explicitly built for developers running AI models and agents locally...
ChatGPT Quietly Overhauled How It Searches the Web
ChatGPT began scoping far more searches to specific websites on August 8, a change that coincided with Reddit's citation share collapsing from 3.8% to 0.5%.
Meta Brings Its AI to Mac With a New App Built for Small Business Owners
Meta launched a Mac app for Meta AI with screen sharing and Google Workspace access, aimed at creators and small businesses running campaigns on Facebook and...
OpenAI Launches ChatGPT for Teens With Stronger Safeguards
OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Teens, a version with default safety protections, learning tools and parental controls, automatically applied to users it identifies as under 18.
Meta Launches Muse Glimmer, a 30B AI Model That Runs on One GPU
Meta has released Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter open-weight model built for local AI agents, coding, tool use, and multimodal tasks on a single consumer GPU or...