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AI News
Jul 16, 2026 0

Google Vids now lets you star in your own AI videos

Google is adding personalized AI avatars to Vids that let users create videos starring a digital version of themselves, alongside Gemini ...

AI News
Jul 16, 2026 0

Roblox launches an AI-powered game creation feature in its mobile app

Roblox's new "Build" feature lets users generate basic games using a single text prompt.

AI News
Jul 16, 2026 0

New York governor says she’s using AI to analyze ‘every single rule’ in the state

New York Governor Kathy Hochul might have just signed a moratorium on new AI data centers in the state, but she's not against using the t...

AI News
Jul 16, 2026 0

Examining Google DeepMind’s AI bioresilience push

Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs outlined a bioresilience program to curb AI misuse in biology while aiding outbreak response. The two...

Research
Jul 16, 2026 1

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Embed Ranks #1 Overall on RTEB, Advancing Agentic Retrieval

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AI News
Jul 16, 2026 0

Google is renaming NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook

Google is giving its AI note-taking app a new name. The company announced on Thursday that NotebookLM is becoming Gemini Notebook, but wi...

AI News
Jul 16, 2026 0

Google’s AI Mode now lets you link and interact with select apps

With this new update, Google is expanding AI Mode beyond answering questions and into completing tasks across the apps they use regularly.

AI News
Jul 16, 2026 2

Yes, you can now order DoorDash from the command line

DoorDash is opening a limited beta of dd-cli, a command-line tool that lets developers and AI agents search stores, build carts, and plac...

AI News
Jul 16, 2026 2

Why is OpenAI selling a ChatGPT basketball?

You may have heard that OpenAI released its first piece of hardware this week. You may not have heard about the ChatGPT basketball.

AI News
Jul 16, 2026 2

How a former DeepMind researcher raised at a $300M pre-seed valuation before launching a product

Drawing on more than a decade spent helping build some of the world's most influential AI systems, including research that later informed...

AI News
Jul 16, 2026 3

Why AMI Labs’ Alexandre LeBrun won’t call his AI ‘AGI’ or ‘superintelligence’

While everyone in AI is chasing "superintelligence," Alexandre LeBrun, CEO of Yann LeCun’s world model startup, AMI Labs, dismisses the w...

AI News
Jul 16, 2026 5

Moonshot’s upcoming Kimi 3 is expected to close the gap with Anthropic’s Opus 4.8

The FT reports Kimi K3 will be the largest open AI model from China, with a parameter count between 2 trillion and 3 trillion.