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OpenClaw: This AI assistant can teach itself new skills and control your entire digital life

An open-source AI assistant called OpenClaw (formerly Clawdbot and Moltbot) demonstrates how future digital helpers might operate entirely on users’ own computers while offering unprecedented customization and control. Federico Viticci writes on MacStories that the project allows users to interact with powerful language models through familiar messaging apps like Telegram or iMessage. The assistant runs …

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Claude integrates with Slack, Figma, Asana, and other apps

Anthropic has introduced interactive tool integrations for Claude, allowing users to work with business applications directly inside the AI assistant. The feature enables employees to manage tasks in Asana, draft Slack messages, create diagrams in Figma, and build analytics charts in Amplitude without switching browser tabs. The integrations include nine applications: Amplitude, Asana, Box, Canva, …

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This absurdly simple trick makes AI models answer questions far more accurately

A surprisingly simple technique can dramatically improve how well artificial intelligence models answer questions: Researchers at Google have discovered that repeating a question twice in the same prompt boosts accuracy by as much as 76 percent for certain tasks. Carl Franzen reports for VentureBeat that the finding challenges years of increasingly complex methods engineers have …

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ElevenLabs releases album with Liza Minnelli and Art Garfunkel created using AI

ElevenLabs has launched “The Eleven Album,” featuring original music from established artists including Liza Minnelli and Art Garfunkel, created in collaboration with the company’s AI music generation system. The project marks one of the first large scale partnerships between artificial intelligence technology and professional musicians, Todd Spangler reports for Variety. The album features tracks across …

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Adobe turns Acrobat into an AI productivity studio

Adobe has expanded Acrobat with new AI features that allow users to generate presentations and podcasts from documents, edit PDFs through conversational prompts, and collaborate more effectively. These capabilities are bundled in Acrobat Studio, which combines PDF tools from Acrobat with content creation features from Adobe Express. The company now enables users to create presentations …

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Scarlett Johansson and Cate Blanchett lead revolt against “AI slop”

Around 800 creatives have joined a new campaign to protest the unauthorized use of their work by artificial intelligence companies. Mia Sato reports for The Verge that authors, actors, and musicians are calling the practice “theft at a grand scale.” The coalition includes famous names like Scarlett Johansson, Cate Blanchett, and the band R.E.M. The …

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Major creative platforms ban generative AI content

Bandcamp and San Diego Comic-Con have implemented strict policies against generative AI to protect human creators. These decisions follow growing pressure from artists who seek to maintain the value of original work. Both platforms have transitioned from flexible approaches to explicit bans on AI-generated submissions. Bandcamp now prohibits music produced wholly or substantially by AI. …

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New open source challenger takes on Google in the AI image race

The open source community has a powerful new tool for high precision image generation. GLM Image, a model from the startup Z.ai, demonstrates superior accuracy in rendering complex text compared to Google’s Nano Banana Pro. Carl Franzen reports for VentureBeat that this new model excels at creating information dense visuals such as infographics and technical …

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OpenAI and Google update translation technology

OpenAI and Google have introduced new tools and models to advance artificial intelligence translation. OpenAI launched ChatGPT Translate, a standalone tool designed to compete with established services. It supports over 50 languages and uses a layout similar to existing translation platforms. Features of ChatGPT Translate A primary feature of ChatGPT Translate is its integration with …

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