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LM Studio Bionic has been released, allowing users to use local AI models as AI agents. It supports coding and slide creation, and also allows the use of cloud models.

On July 17, 2026, Japan time, the development team behind the local AI execution app 'LM Studio' released the AI agent app ' LM Studio Bionic.' LM Studio Bionic allows you to run AI models locally and ...
9to5google

Gemini app can now generate Google Docs, PDF, Word, and other files

You can now ask the Gemini app to directly generate “downloadable and ready-to-share files.” Google wants you to “quickly move from a brainstorm to a complete ...
VentureBeat

OpenAI's ChatGPT Images 2.0 is here and it does multilingual text, full infographics, slides, maps, even manga — seemingly flawlessly

It's been only a few months since OpenAI released its last big improvement to AI image generations in ChatGPT and through its application programming interface (API) — namely, a new image generation ...
People

The 12 Most Comfortable Slides for Summer 2026, Tested by Real People

We independently evaluate all of our recommendations. If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. Slip into Adidas, Reef, Birkenstocks, Uggs, and more Olivia is a writer and content ...
Consumer Reports

Graco SnugRide Turn & Slide Car Seats Recalled Due to Crash Safety Issue

Graco has announced a voluntary recall of their first rotating infant car seat, the SnugRide Turn & Slide. In a statement, the company says it identified a structural issue with the car seat during ...
TechCrunch

Google rolls out new Gemini capabilities to Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive

Google announced on Tuesday that it’s bringing a slew of new Gemini-powered AI capabilities to Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive. The new features let users do things like quickly generate fully ...
GitHub

TextPecker: Rewarding Structural Anomaly Quantification for Enhancing Visual Text Rendering

Visual Text Rendering (VTR) remains a critical challenge in text‑to‑image generation, where even advanced models frequently produce text with structural anomalies such as distortion, blurriness, and ...
GitHub

Design Deck

A tool for Pi coding agent that presents multi-slide visual decision decks. On macOS, uses Glimpse to render in a native WKWebView window; falls back to a browser tab on other platforms. Each slide ...
The Verge

Adobe Acrobat uses AI to turn your PDFs into podcasts

Acrobat Studio users can edit docs with AI chat prompts, or summarize them as podcasts and presentations. Acrobat Studio users can edit docs with AI chat prompts, or summarize them as podcasts and ...
Scientific American magazine

AI Decodes Visual Brain Activity—And Writes Captions for It

Reading a person’s mind using a recording of their brain activity sounds futuristic, but it’s now one step closer to reality. A new technique called ‘mind captioning’ generates descriptive sentences ...
InfoQ

Voices Enables Fast Text-to-Speech for Java Applications

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