Discord admits AI moderation bug wrongfully banned users over harmless images
Discord has acknowledged that a bug in its AI moderation system mistakenly banned more than 8,000 users over the past two months, after harmless images—including spreadsheets, chessboards, game textures, as well as white and gray transparent backgrounds—were incorrectly flagged as harmful content. T...
Anthropic’s Claude Cowork is now available on web and mobile for Max subscribers. Until now, Cowork largely lived on a user’s laptop. With the update, users can start a task from their desk, get status updates on their phone, and pick up the finished output later — even if their laptop is closed.
Every major tech layoff in 2026 that has name-checked AI
A running look — in reverse chronological order — at the bigger tech companies that have announced significant layoffs this year with AI as a stated factor.
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s oft-discussed promise that Americans will share in the wealth AI creates was in the news again last week. On Thursday, the Financial Times...
Microsoft lays off nearly 5,000 employees across Xbox, commercial sales
Microsoft cut around 4,800 roles, or 2.1% of its global workforce, on Monday — the latest in a series of layoffs that’s stoking fears of AI replacing jobs. The layoffs will hit Xbox and commercial sales the hardest.
Station F ramps up as a launchpad for Europe’s hottest AI startups
Station F, a Paris-based startup hub founded by French billionaire Xavier Niel, is gearing up for a new edition of its F/ai accelerator program in a bid to strengthen its positioning as a stepping stone for promising AI startups.
Structured PDF-to-JSON: A Guide to Open-Source Extraction Models in 2026
Most enterprise data still sits inside PDFs, scans, and slide decks. Large language models and agents cannot use that data until it becomes structured JSON. Open-source document extraction has become the standard way to do that conversion on your own hardware. Two different problems hide under the p...
Qwen’s Former Lead on What Hybrid Thinking Got Wrong — and Why He Now Backs Agents
Junyang Lin, the former technical lead of Alibaba's Qwen, walked through the model family in a talk "towards a generalist model / agent," then expanded it in an essay. We read both for practitioners: Qwen3 hybrid thinking modes and dynamic thinking budgets, where the merge fell short, the shift from...
New Google commercial imagines a Declaration of Independence written with help from AI
Two hundred and fifty years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, a new commercial asks: What if the Founding Fathers had access to Google Workspace?
What is Mistral AI? Everything to know about the OpenAI competitor
Mistral AI, which offers some open source AI models, has raised significant funding since its creation in 2023, with the ambition to “put frontier AI in the hands of everyone.”
What is Mistral AI? Everything to know about France’s AI darling
Following the Trump directive that led Anthropic to pull its latest AI models offline and growing calls for sovereign tech that reduces reliance on the U.S., Mistral AI has been caught in a whirlwind of attention. But the French AI darling is often misunderstood, and the fact that it develops large ...
Designing a Schema-Guided Invoice Intelligence Pipeline with lift-pdf for Accounts-Payable Extraction, Validation, and Ledger Generation
In this tutorial, we build an end-to-end accounts-payable extraction pipeline with lift-pdf, using synthetic invoice PDFs as controlled test documents and a structured JSON schema as the target output format. Instead of treating invoice parsing as a simple OCR task, we frame it as schema-guided docu...
The rise of AI has brought an avalanche of new terms and slang. Here is a glossary with definitions of some of the most important words and phrases you might encounter.
RAG-Anything Tutorial: Build a Multimodal Retrieval Pipeline for Text, Tables, Equations, and Images in Colab
In this tutorial, we build a RAG-Anything workflow to explore how multimodal retrieval works across text, tables, equations, and images. We prepare a Colab environment, enter our OpenAI API key at runtime, and generate a synthetic report with a chart and PDF. We convert that content into RAG-Anythin...