Restaurants are increasingly using handwritten menus, custom embroidery and lo-fi photography to signal craft at a time when AI-generated marketing images are flooding social media. Bettina Makalintal writes for Eater that restaurants are embracing visible handmade details as a response to AI-generated visual content. The shift reflects a wider cultural reaction to synthetic images that …
HubSpot has launched Agent Hub and Agent Builder in public beta for Professional and Enterprise customers. Dom Nicastro reports for CMSWire that the tools provide one workspace for building, monitoring and coordinating AI agents across marketing, sales and customer service. The launch addresses a growing problem for companies using several automated assistants. Separate agents can …
Palmier Pro is a new open-source video editor for macOS that combines a traditional timeline with AI generation and controls for AI agents. Co-founder Harrison Tin presents the project in a Show HN post on Hacker News, describing it as a tool designed to reduce repetitive work in video production rather than replace editorial judgment. …
Some publicly shared Claude conversations and Artifacts have appeared in Google Search results, making them accessible to people who did not receive the original links. Carl Franzen reports for VentureBeat that Reddit and X users found Claude pages through Google queries targeting the service’s sharing URLs. The issue does not indicate that private Claude accounts …
OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman is set to meet senior Trump administration officials, senators and economists in Washington this week as policymakers debate AI security and access to Chinese models. Ashley Capoot and Kate Rooney report for CNBC that Altman plans to preview OpenAI’s upcoming model family and answer questions about cybersecurity, AI agents and …
GPT-5.6 Sol delivered the strongest overall results in a drawing experiment that asked four AI models to create images stroke by stroke on a digital canvas. TryAI reports in its drawing-arena analysis that GPT-5.6 Sol, Claude Fable 5, Grok 4.5 and Gemini 3.6 Flash received the same colored-pencil tools and either copied famous paintings or …
Microsoft is expanding its in-house AI portfolio with new image and speech models, while shifting more product traffic away from expensive general-purpose systems. The company has placed MAI-Image-2.5-Pro and MAI-Voice-2-Flash into public preview. MAI-Image-2.5-Pro targets detailed image creation, editing and text within images. MAI-Voice-2-Flash is designed for large-scale speech applications such as contact centres and …
OpenAI has introduced Presence, a managed enterprise product designed to help companies deploy AI agents for customer service and internal operations. The system supports real time voice and chat interactions, allowing agents to answer questions, access selected company systems, complete approved tasks and hand difficult cases to employees. Presence is not a self service tool …
Anthropic has introduced Claude Opus 5, a new AI model positioned as a lower-cost alternative to its most capable commercially available system, Claude Fable 5. The company says Opus 5 approaches Fable 5’s performance on coding, knowledge work and computer-use tasks while costing roughly half as much per task. Opus 5 is now the default …
Black Forest Labs has introduced FLUX 3, a new foundation model designed to generate images and video with synchronized audio, while also serving as a base for robotics systems. The company is initially limiting access to selected users and partners through an Early Access programme. FLUX 3 Video can create clips up to 20 seconds …