A Coding Guide to High-Quality Image Generation, Control, and Editing Using HuggingFace Diffusers
In this tutorial, we design a practical image-generation workflow using the Diffusers library. We start by stabilizing the environment, then generate high-quality images from text prompts using Stable Diffusion with an optimized scheduler. We accelerate inference with a LoRA-based latent consistency...
Why creators are ditching ad revenue for chocolate bars and fintech acquisitions
The creator economy is evolving fast, and ad revenue alone isn’t cutting it anymore. YouTubers are launching product lines, acquiring startups, and building actual business empires. In fact, MrBeast’s company bought fintech startup Step, and his chocolate business is outearning his media arm. This i...
How to Design a Swiss Army Knife Research Agent with Tool-Using AI, Web Search, PDF Analysis, Vision, and Automated Reporting
In this tutorial, we build a “Swiss Army Knife” research agent that goes far beyond simple chat interactions and actively solves multi-step research problems end-to-end. We combine a tool-using agent architecture with live web search, local PDF ingestion, vision-based chart analysis, and automated r...
InScope nabs $14.5M to solve the pain of financial reporting
The startup, founded by accountants who worked at Flexport, Miro, Hopin and Thrive Global, automates the difficulties of prepping financial statements.
VITARI will begin shipping in the second half of 2026, with pre-orders now open and early customer commitments already secured Element Biosciences Inc. today announced VITARI, the first ever high-throughput benchtop sequencing system capable of delivering a high-quality whole genome at $100. With th...
Great news for xAI: Grok is now pretty good at answering questions about Baldur’s Gate
A new report from Business Insider reveals that high-level engineers at xAI were pulled off other projects to make sure Grok could answer detailed questions about the video game "Baldur's Gate."
Avandra Appoints Two Healthtech Leaders to Accelerate Commercial Growth
Avandra Imaging, a leader in medical imaging-centric real-world data, today announced the appointment of Justin North as Head of Life Sciences and Network Growth, and Chip Kay as Head of Sales for Image Sharing. North will lead the continued growth of Avandra’s data network, the largest federated ne...
National research conducted with RLDatix reveals nearly 90% of healthcare organizations see an urgent need to modernize governance and connected systems Healthcare technology leaders say disconnected systems and fragmented data environments are no longer just an efficiency problem — they are putting...
CyberFOX Welcomes Joe Panettieri as Strategic Advisor
Renowned MSP market analyst and digital media entrepreneur brings two decades of channel partner expertise to accelerate partner success CyberFOX, a global cybersecurity software provider, today announced that Joe Panettieri has joined the company as Strategic Advisor. Panettieri has spent more than...
AlgoSec Up 37% YoY New Business Growth Amid Security Demand
Over 90% gross dollar retention and 37% year-over-year new business growth reflect demand for visibility across complex hybrid environments AlgoSec, a global cybersecurity leader, today reported its best year ever with strong year-over-year annual recurring revenue growth, a gross dollar retention r...
AI’s promise to indie filmmakers: faster, cheaper, lonelier
AI expands access to filmmaking for resource-constrained creators. But as efficiency becomes the industry’s north star, creativity risks being overwhelmed by a deluge of low-effort, AI-generated content.
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OpenAI says 18 to 24-year-olds account for nearly 50% of ChatGPT usage in India
The company said on Friday that users between 18 and 24 years of age account for nearly 50% of all messages sent by Indians to ChatGPT, and users under 30 accounted for 80% of usage in the country.
From Concept to Reality: How to Build Your First Digital Employee for Your Small Business
A practical, hands‑on tutorial showing small‑business owners how to design, build, and deploy a real AI “digital employee” using common tools like Zapier, Google Workspace, and ChatGPT. Includes workflows, prompts, guardrails, and deployment tips.
RingCentral Drives New Era of Enterprise Voice AI Performance with OpenAI
RingCentral’s trusted communications enhanced by OpenAI deliver high-fidelity, powerful AI experiences that drive business outcomes RingCentral, Inc. (NYSE: RNG), a global leader in AI-powered business communications, today announced it is integrating OpenAI to advance enterprise-grade voice AI. The...
5,000+ organizations worldwide are actively using ExaGrid Tiered Backup Storage ExaGrid®, the leader in Tiered Backup Storage, today announced that over 5,000 customers are actively using its backup storage behind leading backup applications such as Veeam, Commvault, NetBackup, Rubrik, Arcserve, Acr...
How to Build Transparent AI Agents: Traceable Decision-Making with Audit Trails and Human Gates
In this tutorial, we build a glass-box agentic workflow that makes every decision traceable, auditable, and explicitly governed by human approval. We design the system to log each thought, action, and observation into a tamper-evident audit ledger while enforcing dynamic permissioning for high-risk ...
YouTube’s latest experiment brings its conversational AI tool to TVs
YouTube is testing conversational AI on smart TVs, allowing viewers to ask the assistant questions related to the video they're watching on the big screen.
Beyond Automation: How AI Becomes Your Small Business’s First “Digital Employee”
Explore how AI is becoming the first “digital employee” for small businesses—handling operations, finance, sales, marketing, and support with adaptive intelligence that scales effortlessly.
77% Americans Embrace AI With Calls for Safeguards
New national survey highlights rising adoption, cautious trust, and strong demand for oversight as AI enters behavioral healthcare A new national survey released today by Qualifacts, the leading behavioral health technology partner specializing in AI-powered electronic health record (EHR) and data s...