Cascade Studio has announced the Open Beta launch of Cascade, an AI-native production platform that says it is “built to bring Hollywood-grade storytelling infrastructure to creators of any size”. Founded by film and virtual production veterans behind global blockbusters including Avengers: Endgame, No Time To Die, Wicked, Masters of the Air and Pinocchio, Cascade seeks to…
Apple yesterday held its WWDC 2026 Platforms State of the Union, detailing a wide range of updates to its developer tools and platforms, headlined by a major expansion of the Foundation Models framework. The main announcement was free access to Apple Foundation Models running on Private Cloud Compute for developers with fewer than two million…
Artificial intelligence may be transforming workplaces, but the growing cost of using advanced AI systems is beginning to worry large companies. Ride-hailing giant Uber has reportedly started restricting employee access to premium AI coding tools such as Claude Code and Cursor after the company burned through its yearly AI budget in just four months. According…
Steven Spielberg says AI can be useful as a production tool, but should not replace writers, directors, or human creative judgment.
Coinbase’s Ethereum Layer 2 network Base has launched a new tool that lets artificial intelligence agents directly interact with users’ crypto wallets and decentralized finance applications through plain-language prompts, marking a new step in the convergence of AI and crypto infrastructure. The product, called Base MCP, connects a user’s Base Account to AI clients such…
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Install first: download Claude Cowork, install the Small Business plugin from the plugins page, toggle it on, and connect QuickBooks, PayPal, and HubSpot. Takes five minutes, no IT needed. Chase overdue: prompt: “Rank my overdue invoices and draft reminders for the top three.” Review and approve before anything sends. Close the month: prompt: “Reconcile my…
TL;DR: ARTA is an AI design tool that actually works well on iOS and Android, and it’s only $64 for a 5-year plan with code AI20. Creating interesting visuals used to mean spending hours learning software you’d barely use, and more often than not, those apps were virtually unusable on mobile. ARTA puts AI image generation, video creation,…
The American Psychiatric Association’s 178th Annual Meeting concluded Wednesday in San Francisco after five days in which thousands of psychiatric professionals confronted an unavoidable shift: AI-assisted diagnostics, triage chatbots, and ambient documentation tools have entered psychiatric practice while federal regulators have not yet cleared a single generative AI product for mental health use. The conference…
Google just announced a smorgasbord of new AI tools for productivity and creativity at its Google I/O keynote on Tuesday, but not many of them are available for free right now. I/O was huge for Gemini superusers, as the flashiest new features are all rolling out to paying members right now. Even Google AI Plus…
