PhotoCraft is an open-source Photoshop rebuild: layers, masks, adjustment layers, type, vectors, real PSD files, and an MCP server so AI agents can drive it too. Early alpha.

The JournalismAI Festival is back in November, and registration is open. London in person or free online. Sessions range from AI agent workflows for investigations to what media IP is actually worth.

Is Claude getting dumber after launch? livenerf runs and ranks the same task over and over again to find out.

FLUX 3 Image lets you compose from scratch with bounding boxes, make multi-element edits, render in 4K, and let agents plan layouts.

Audionaut is a free, open-source multitrack audio editor that Claude and other AI agents can control via MCP.

Contextual Retrieval cuts RAG failure rates by prepending chunk-specific context before embedding, so your knowledge base actually knows what it’s talking about. (Anthropic)

Funny thing: Google serves AI-generated answers through AI Overviews and AI Mode, but tells website owners to “manually factcheck and review all AI-generated content for accuracy and trustworthiness before publishing.”

Check what your site tells AI crawlers: botpolicy.org measures your robots.txt against 166 known AI crawlers.

OpenAI’s rogue agents hacked Hugging Face – the investigators who looked into it called their own work a "slop-vestigation" because they had to use AI to analyze the AI, and the AI was fooled by the AI they were analyzing. OpenAI, meanwhile, let them study logs only on-site, for six days total. Nothing to see here. (Dylan Freedman, The New York Times)

A Claude skill that fact-checks your draft claim by claim and flags them as Supported, Couldn’t Verify, or Needs Review. Works better with newer, bigger models. (Verso)

One in five UK adults now use AI tools like ChatGPT to follow the news. (Ofcom)

If “watermark” sounds too innocent, maybe that’s the point: The case for renaming hidden tracking signals baked into images, audio, and text to “spymarks”. (Brandon Thomas)

Two rules for using LLMs on your own writing: don’t use a single word the model suggests, and never let it encourage you. Spotting passive voice, buried verbs, and the 750 words you don’t need, you can safely outsource. (Thomas & Erin Ptacek)

Spotify now lets AI agents generate private audio briefings and save them directly to your library. Works with Claude Code and Codex via a CLI tool in beta.

AI taking over the whole internet with bots? “It is naive and structurally impossible.” A security expert takes Dario Amodei’s essay apart. (pop.rdi.sh)