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Ask Maps is an AI feature inside Google Maps that helps you ask natural-language questions and get place recommendations on a map. It is ideal for travelers, commuters, and everyday users who want faster, more useful local search.

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Ben Affleck’s $587M AI sale and why he thinks movies are safe from AI

Ben Affleck’s $587M AI sale and why he thinks movies are safe from AI

Ben Affleck quietly built and sold an AI company to Netflix for a reported $587M. In this breakdown of his thinking, he explains how the tech works, why he buil…

What 7.8B Claude Opus 5.5 tokens can really build in game dev

What 7.8B Claude Opus 5.5 tokens can really build in game dev

A full MMO-style RPG was built almost end-to-end by Claude Opus 5.5, wired into Unity, Blender, and asset-generation APIs. Here’s how the workflow worked, what …

AI 3D just leveled up: UVs, 4K meshes, smart splitting and more

AI 3D just leveled up: UVs, 4K meshes, smart splitting and more

AI for 3D is moving fast: we now have smart UV unwrapping that actually works, 4K mesh generation with up to 80M polygons, better animation support in GPT-6 Ast…

AI weekly: Claude Mythos shockwave, new open-source coding beast, and the best video model you can actually use

AI weekly: Claude Mythos shockwave, new open-source coding beast, and the best video model you can actually use

This week in AI brought a ‘too powerful to release’ security model from Anthropic, a surprisingly strong open-source coder from Zhipu AI, Meta’s new Muse Spark …

Why MemoMind One’s camera-free AI glasses are such a bold move

Why MemoMind One’s camera-free AI glasses are such a bold move

MemoMind One is a new pair of AI-powered smart glasses that skips the camera entirely and focuses on audio, privacy, and long-term memory. Here’s what they do, …

I tried to build my own game-playing AI from scratch

I tried to build my own game-playing AI from scratch

This article walks through the journey of building a simple game-playing AI from scratch, using evolution-inspired training and neural networks to teach an agen…

How to use Claude with Seedance 2.0 for cinematic AI video (step-by-step guide)

How to use Claude with Seedance 2.0 for cinematic AI video (step-by-step guide)

Learn how to pair Claude with Seedance 2.0 to turn rough ideas into cinematic AI videos. This guide walks through image prompts, video prompts, and multi-shot s…

Why everyone is suddenly rethinking Google search

Why everyone is suddenly rethinking Google search

After two decades of dominance, Google’s grip on search is finally starting to loosen. AI-powered answer engines like Perplexity, ChatGPT search, Kagi, and Brav…

NotebookLM 2.0 turns into a true AI research agent

NotebookLM 2.0 turns into a true AI research agent

NotebookLM 2.0 upgrades Google’s AI notebook from a simple document chat tool into a full research agent that can search the web, run code, and generate finishe…

How Grok-style AI is rewriting the mystery of Stonehenge

How Grok-style AI is rewriting the mystery of Stonehenge

A large-scale AI analysis of centuries of Stonehenge data suggests the monument may be part of a vast prehistoric system that encoded lunar cycles, sound, and r…