LongStories.ai lets creators build “Universes”, reusable video templates with set characters, voices, style, and settings. Once built, creators can generate unlimited long-form AI videos from simple prompts. This eliminates repeated setup and keeps videos consistent. The platform allows creators to scale production for YouTube and other platforms.
Riverside lets users record, edit, livestream, host, and publish studio-quality audio and video. It includes multi-track 4K recording, AI editing, and automated promotional assets. Users can create podcasts, webinars, social clips, stream live in HD, and publish to YouTube, Spotify, and Apple.
For 6 months, a company received angry refund requests from people who were not customers because Google's AI Overview repeatedly showed the wrong support email for a similarly named business. The issue was not a system bug but an AI hallucination that misdirected searchers, sending hundreds of frustrated users to the wrong company. The practical solution is to actively monitor Google AI Overviews for brand-related searches, downvote incorrect summaries, and test results across regions using a VPN. AI Overviews vary by country and may be correct in some territories.
Bugs sneak out when less than 80% of user flows are tested before shipping. However, getting that kind of coverage (and staying there) is hard and pricey for any team.
TikTok's new app, PineDrama, offers access to microdramas, bite-sized TV shows that can be watched in a series of one-minute episodes. It features a variety of genres, including thriller, romance, and family. The microdrama industry is projected to bring in $26 billion in annual revenue by 2030. PineDrama will compete with existing microdrama platforms like ReelShort and DramaBox.
OpenAI is on track to unveil its first hardware product in the second half of 2026. Jony Ive's 'io' team at OpenAI recently hired Janum Trivedi, who previously worked on SpringBoard at Apple. Trivedi also built Split View, Multitasking Drag & Drop, iPad Pointer Gestures, and more for iPadOS 15.
NASA rolled out the Artemis II rocket to its launch pad over the weekend. The Artemis II mission will set several notable spaceflight records. The astronauts will travel further from the Earth than any human in history, flying to the far side of the Moon and back. The mission is on track for liftoff as soon as next month.
Matic's robots have cleaned over 50 million square feet across real homes since launch. The company was designed from the ground up to iterate quickly. It shipped early, observed behavior, learned from real homes, and refined constantly. This article tells the story of Matic's founders and how they built the company.
Connect your AI agents to apps and data more securely, give users control over the actions AI agents can perform and the data they can access, and enable human confirmation for critical agent actions.
Interesting software development jobs aren't likely to disappear. The jobs that are dependent on the fundamentals of software aren't going to stop being dependent on the fundamentals of software. More LLM usage will mean more stress on the tools and applications that rely on the fundamentals of software. The most conservative way to build a career as a software developer is to be practical and effective at problem-solving and to better understand over time how the tools you use work so that you can make better decisions.
Claude Code 2.0 has a flexible and robust harness with an evolved UX and fewer bugs. The RLHF Anthropic did on Opus 4.5 completely changed the equation. Users no longer need to review code or instruct the model at the level of files or functions: they can just test behaviors instead. Claude Code can be used by developers who never plan on learning how to code and just care about outputs.
The New York Stock Exchange is building a new digital trading platform using blockchain technology to allow for around-the-clock trading of tokenized stocks and exchange-traded funds. The platform will launch later this year, pending regulatory approval. It will allow for new types of investor accessibility and create new opportunities for retail to participate in stablecoin-funded markets. The digital infrastructure will allow trades to be funded and settled in real-time without the current one-day delay.
No amount of brilliant UX, go-to-market strategy, or engineering can make customers adopt a product whose core AI task doesn't solve their job to be done.
As the first engineer on TLDR's new Applied AI team, you'll build AI agents and composable Claude Skills to let non-technical teammates create their own AI workflows. Learn more [24].
Oculus founder Palmer Luckey says Meta was crowding out the ecosystem and that recent studio shutdowns and layoffs will be a good thing for the long-term health of the VR industry.
Knowledge bases are persistent repositories that Claude can reference for relevant context and incrementally update with new information. They allow Claude to segment information into multiple, user-managed knowledge bases. Users will likely be able to select specific knowledge bases as context attachments when working on tasks in Cowork. The feature could be particularly relevant for workflows that involve automation and file management.
Google Stitch will soon allow API key management and automatic PRD generation. The update aim to enhance design workflows by integrating Gemini models for high-resolution outputs and simplifying project documentation. This positions Stitch as a vital tool in Google's AI-driven development strategy, enhancing collaboration within product teams.
Two components are important to shaping model character: persona construction and persona stabilization. Without the proper construction, assistants can easily inherit counterproductive associations from the wrong sources. Even when assistants are well-constructed, they easily drift away from their roles, which makes stabilizing and preserving models' personas particularly important. Ensuring models are aligned will become increasingly important as they become more capable and are deployed in increasingly sensitive environments.
Character.ai uses an internal system called "Slonk" to manage GPU research clusters. Slonk merges the flexibility of Kubernetes with the productivity of HPC environments to optimize ML research workflows.
Nvidia showcases how a reasoning model with no prior knowledge can be taught to safely use the LangGraph CLI for complex tasks like spinning up servers and building Docker containers, using synthetic data, and Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards.
Here's where you get answers: Zenity is hosting a live AMA [11] on Wed. 1/28 with the security researchers (Chris Hughes, Steve Wilson, Michael Bargury, and Kayla Underkoffler) who helped write the industry's first peer-reviewed risk framework for autonomous AI agents -- including contributors who led entries on goal hijacking, tool misuse, and memory poisoning. Bring your hardest questions about
ShapeR reconstructs full-scene 3D meshes from image sequences by extracting multimodal features and feeding them into a flow transformer that generates object-specific shape codes.
Microsoft's OptiMind translates natural language optimization problems into mathematical formulations. It was designed to streamline the traditionally slow and expert-heavy modeling step in optimization workflows.
skypilot is a unified open-source framework for running, managing, and scaling AI/ML workloads across clouds, Kubernetes, and on-prem infrastructure with a simple interface and intelligent scheduling.
Kaggle has launched Community Benchmarks, a feature that allows users to collaboratively build and share custom model evaluations that go beyond static accuracy metrics to better reflect real-world AI performance.
AI teams struggle to deploy agents because no standardized runtime exists to handle state, streaming, isolation, recovery, and scaling across sessions and users. Existing frameworks, observability, and eval tools only cover building and testing agents, leaving each team to reinvent complex infrastructure from scratch. A proper runtime would serve agents as APIs, persist state, manage streams, recover from failures, and scale safely, turning notebooks into production-ready AI applications.
As the first engineer on TLDR's new Applied AI team, you'll build AI agents and composable Claude Skills to let non-technical teammates create their own AI workflows. Learn more [18].
The New York Stock Exchange is developing a platform for trading and onchain settlement of tokenized securities that will enable 24/7 operations, instant settlement, fractional share trading, and stablecoin-based funding. Subject to regulatory approvals, the platform will combine NYSE's Pillar matching engine with blockchain-based post-trade systems that support multiple chains, and will create a new NYSE venue for tokenized shares fungible with traditional securities as well as natively-issued digital securities. Tokenized shareholders will receive traditional dividends and governance rights. The initiative is part of parent company ICE's broader digital strategy to prepare its clearing infrastructure for 24/7 trading.
Bitcoin fell back toward $92,000, sparking over $750M in long liquidations, as Greenland-linked US-EU tariff-war headlines hit a market already weakened by delays to US crypto market structure legislation and broader crypto-specific underperformance. The NYSE is also developing a 24/7 platform for trading and onchain settlement of tokenized US equities and ETFs, targeting fractional trading, instant settlement, and stablecoin-funded flows pending regulatory approval.
Vitalik Buterin outlines an ambitious 2026 roadmap to reverse a decade of centralization drift in Ethereum's infrastructure and user experience. Core technical initiatives include ZK-EVM and BAL to reduce full node requirements, Helios for trustless RPC verification, ORAM/PIR for privacy-preserving data queries, and social recovery wallets with timelocks to eliminate seed phrase dependency without introducing custodial backdoors. The plan also addresses privacy censorship resistance through ERC-4337 mempool integration with native account abstraction (AA) and FOCIL, alongside IPFS-based decentralized application interfaces.