2026-08-13
Josh Kushner raised $2bn to buy the companies AI is coming for
Almost every AI business sells a product. Someone builds a model or a tool, licenses it, and hopes the customer works out what to do with it. Thrive Holdings inverts that. It buys accounting firms and IT services companies outright, puts its own engineers inside them, and rebuilds how the work gets done. It now […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-08-13
CodeRabbit raised $143m to read the code AI wrote
Code review is the step where somebody reads a change before it ships. A developer proposes an edit, opens what the trade calls a pull request, and a colleague checks it for bugs and security holes. It is slow and unglamorous work. Until recently it was also manageable, because roughly one human wrote each change […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-08-13
1 in 3 Windows users have 'fallen into a reset trap' and can't escape Edge — I think it's high time Microsoft stopped messing around with default browser choices
Users report encountering 'challenges' when trying to change their default browser, and being stuck with Edge when they don't want it. [...]
2026-08-13
Toward Perpetual Full-Body Deepfake Video Generation
In a field where patience is required, a new system pushes us a little nearer to live-streamed human simulation without frustrating rendering rounds. The state-of-the-art in full-length human simulation has come a long way since the possibility of full-body deepfakes first appeared in 2022. By now we have become habituated to the formidable and often-controversial ability of open source systems su [...]
2026-08-13
An AI-written article needs no label. Your proofread email gets one
Start with what the mark actually is, because it is not a stamp on the page. When a model writes, it picks each word from a set of reasonable options. A watermark quietly splits those options into two groups using a secret key, then nudges the model towards one group. One word proves nothing. Across […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
