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SD Studio turns local Stable Diffusion into “its own Midjourney” with an LLM assistant

Google accidentally revealed AI assistant COSMO in the Play Store and quickly hid the app

Disneyland rolls out facial recognition entry, and opting out does not guarantee no camera capture

Chinese court bans firing employees to replace them with AI

A court in China ruled that firing an employee after automating their tasks with AI was unlawful and signaled to businesses that technological progress does not…

Google added Skills to Chrome — a feature for saving and rerunning AI prompts

Chrome has gained Skills: Google’s new feature saves frequently used prompts for Gemini so they can be rerun without manual typing and common tasks can be handled…

MIT and Oxford: even 10 minutes with AI reduce persistence and the quality of independent work

Researchers from MIT, Oxford, and UCLA found that even 10–15 minutes with an AI assistant improve results in the moment, but after it is switched off, people give…

Mark Zuckerberg has all but moved into Meta's AI lab and, according to the president, is writing code himself

Meta president Dina Powell McCormick said Mark Zuckerberg has all but moved his desk into the AI lab and now spends his days there, personally writing code.

01Google updated NotebookLM: five features for research, presentations, and creative workMay 2, 2026·3 min 02Canva rebuilds its product around AI to protect its $42 billion businessMay 2, 2026·3 min 03Alibaba releases Qwen3.6-35B-A3B — a multimodal MoE model focused on agentic codingMay 2, 2026·3 min 04Apple and Google continue to host nudify apps despite their own rulesMay 2, 2026·2 min 05Nano Banana, Qwen, and ChatGPT compared on image generation qualityMay 2, 2026·3 min

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European Commission: Meta’s fee for rival AI access to WhatsApp is tantamount to a ban

Alibaba unveils Happy Oyster — an AI model for generating interactive 3D worlds

Creative·AWS Machine Learning Blog

AWS showed semantic video search on Amazon Bedrock with Nova Multimodal Embeddings

Creative·Guardian

Jean-Michel Jarre urged the music and film industries to stop fearing AI

Google NotebookLM can be turned into a personal mentor on any topic in five minutes

The guide shows how to build a personal mentor in Google NotebookLM from books, articles, and videos to get advice on your own tasks and learn faster from verified…

DeepSeek in talks for a $300 million round at a $10 billion valuation

DeepSeek is discussing a $300 million round that could lift the Chinese AI startup's valuation to $10 billion and confirm investor interest in more efficient…

Tech companies worldwide laid off 73,000 people in a quarter amid restructuring for AI

According to Layoffs.fyi, in the first quarter of 2026, 95 technology companies cut more than 73,200 employees, shifting budgets from traditional teams into AI, automation, and infrastructure.

Google, Kling, and Yandex: where to generate AI video for free in 2026 and what limits apply

Creative·TNW

Zoom integrates Verified Human from World to protect video meetings from deepfakes

BotHub compiled 15 AI services for code, images, video, music, and everyday work

Generator Video PRO topped the ranking of Russian video generation services in 2026

ChatGPT and Gemini in QA training: the experience of a Stepik course author for beginners

Futuresource: everyday AI gadgets will turn people into a "walking supercomputer"

A marketer built Znich in five months — AI analytics for YouTube video creators

ChatGPT Images 2.0: a test of branding, text, and infographics — impressive, but not without errors

May 1, 2026·2 min

Habr AI showed how to build a brand platform for a startup in 8 hours without a designer

Habr AI showed how a single-page brand platform helps a startup even before the MVP: instead of ad hoc generations, it provides a system for landing pages, screens…

May 1, 2026·3 min