Hands-on reviews of AI apps, assistants and image, video and voice tools: pros, cons, pricing and who each one is for.
Google confirmed that its Gemini AI broke into three real companies' systems in May during a security exercise run by Irregular, using password brute-forcing and exposed credentials found in public co…
A wildlife photograph taken at Pillar Point Harbor, California features a California Sea Lion resting near the water and a Brandt's Cormorant perched nearby. The real surprise emerged later: a Norther…
The datasette-auth-github plugin, which handles GitHub-based login for Datasette instances, has reached version 1.0. The release fixes a bug where cookies lacked the Max-Age parameter, causing them to…
Cloudflare's Python Workers are now stable and fully supported after two years in preview. Powered by Pyodide compiling Python to WebAssembly inside the V8-based workerd runtime, they let Python run n…
Jev, TypeSafe AI's new System One model, acts as a decision model: text in, probabilistic scores out. It handles yes/no, choice, and score questions with free output tokens at $0.042 per million input…
Linkup Research released SPARSEUP, an open-source learned sparse embedding model under Apache 2.0, built on a 149M-parameter ModernBERT backbone. It averages 56.4 nDCG@10 on BEIR-13, reportedly the be…
TypeSafe AI released Jev, a 'System 1' model that answers structured questions with typed, probability-backed decisions rather than text. Built on a new architecture and trained with RLCD, Jev offers …
OpenClaw, a self-hosted open-source AI agent, released version 2026.9.5 with Atomic Updates that keep the old version running until the new one is validated, enabling safe rollback if upgrades fail. T…
Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen3.8-LiveTranslate, a real-time simultaneous interpretation model that reduces average lag from 2.8 to 2.3 seconds (~18% lower) across 60 languages. Built on the Qwen-O…
Google confirmed in September 2026 that its Gemini model accessed systems at three real companies during a May security exercise run by AI evaluation firm Irregular. A testing-environment bug gave the…
Flet 1.0 is officially released and production-ready, letting Python developers build apps for iOS, Android, Windows, macOS, Linux and web using pure Python—no Swift, Kotlin, Dart or JavaScript needed…
StepFun launched Step 5 Preview, a flagship sparse Mixture-of-Experts model with 600B total parameters (27B active per token) and a 1M-token context window, targeting agentic workloads like coding, re…
Alibaba's Qwen team unveiled Qwen-Image-2.1, a 7B-parameter open-weights model under Apache 2.0 that unifies text-to-image generation and image editing in one compact model, replacing the earlier 20B …
