Quoting Ben Affleck
Simon Willison’s Weblog 1 week ago 7 ● 2 sources
Ben Affleck discusses how his interest in computers grew as film moved from analog to digital and how machine learning has been used in visual effects workflows.
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Wednesday, 7 October 2026
Invited - AI Reminder Scanner
Product Hunt 1 week ago 12
Invited launched as an AI reminder scanner that turns bills, invitations, cheques, screenshots, and PDFs into smart reminders. It supports 80+ languages and 9 calendars. Users can now extract dates, times, places, and amounts and find multiple reminders in a single document through the app.
“Software is over”: Bold AI developer takes aim at Adobe with open source clones
Ars Technica 1 week ago 43 ● 2 sources
Artcraft debuted seven open-source applications meant to replicate Adobe’s Creative Suite tools by using AI-assisted reverse engineering. The pivot was announced as “seven” apps, created with Claude Opus 5.5 to build “clean-room replacements” in Rust. The result is an early-stage alpha suite with partial functionality that aims to improve toward Adobe-level capability over time.
Tonefold
Product Hunt 1 week ago 6
Tonefold launched as a free, open-source AI music composer for macOS and Windows. It generates editable piano-roll parts including chords, melody, bass, and drums from a song description to Claude. You can then export MIDI, WAV, and stems.
shippedit.me
Product Hunt 1 week ago 47
shippedit.me lists a product launch page for a set of SEO/launch offerings, including AI-related features like “AI fix cards” and an “AI CRM” labeled for modern GTM teams. The page specifically promotes a “Weekly launch battles” program and a permanent page with dofollow backlink, AEO & CRO audits, competitor monitoring, and analytics. As a result, it directs visitors to tools and offerings aimed at launch growth and marketing workflows rather than reporting new AI research or policy changes.
ChatGPT’s ‘Intelligent UI’ update fills its responses with pictures, charts, and buttons
The Verge 1 week ago 38 ● 10 sources
OpenAI is rolling out Intelligent UI in ChatGPT so answers can include interactive visuals like diagrams, charts, forms, and tappable buttons alongside text. The update is deploying to all users alongside GPT-6. As a result, ChatGPT can choose when to generate interactive visuals and format them in its responses instead of using text alone.
Google experiments with an AI-powered gaming platform
TechCrunch 1 week ago 47 ● 2 sources
Google Labs launched Playground, an AI-powered platform that lets users create browser games from text prompts without coding. The service is initially available to users 18+ in the U.S. with free access for browsing and playing, while game generation uses weekly tokens and higher limits for Google One AI subscribers, and future Unity Spark integration is planned to expand 3D and mechanics.
Google’s new SynthID website can identify AI-generated media
TechCrunch 1 week ago 31 ● 4 sources
Google launched a public website that lets people verify whether images, videos, or audio clips were generated using AI via SynthID. The site supports verification requests of about 1 million per day. Access expands beyond select testers, and SynthID verification is also built into Gemini and Google Chrome, though the system can still fail on content made by the same makers’ models.
ChatGPT is getting college planning tools
The Verge 1 week ago 50 ● 2 sources
OpenAI is adding College Planner tools to ChatGPT for Teens to support the college application process. The new feature is expected to arrive “soon.” Users will get a single plan that combines requirements, deadlines, tasks, and financial-aid steps for selected schools, and they can ask questions to update progress.
PostNitro for Agents
Product Hunt 1 week ago 27
PostNitro launched “PostNitro for Agents,” adding AI-agent workflows that turn topics or threads into branded carousels, images, and short videos for scheduled posting across multiple social platforms.
Table Canon
Product Hunt 1 week ago 39
Table Canon launches a feature that turns uploaded game-night audio into automated recaps, outlines, entity dossiers, and searchable history for tabletop RPG game masters. It offers 6 hours of free audio upload to start. As a result, GMs can prep faster using an evolving memory-bank indexed by what happened at prior sessions.
SuperPlan: Stocard Founders Return With a New Shopping List App
Trending Topics 1 week ago 46
Super Apps Studio GmbH launched SuperPlan, a free shared shopping list app that also turns imported recipes into ingredient lists. Premium is €1.99 per week or €29.99 per year (with a one-week free trial). The app adds AI features like voice input and photo/recipe import while keeping list creation and sharing free, account-free, and ad-free.
Google now lets you make games with AI
The Verge 1 week ago 6 ● 2 sources
Google announced Playground, a browser-based platform for making custom games from AI prompts. It is available starting today in the US for users 18 and older at playground.google. Users can create and test games by typing prompts, which removes the need for coding experience.
kōdlo
Product Hunt 1 week ago 21
kōdlo is launching an end-to-end sales workspace that unifies prospect matching with a knowledge hub and an agent that creates personalized sales outputs from uploaded documents. It offers a free option (the only stated timing/detail is that it launches today). This adds a single place to manage client data, team collaboration, and tasks while integrating Claude Desktop/ChatGPT Work or code agents via the kōdlo MCP for context orchestration.
Typeling
Product Hunt 1 week ago 39
Typeling launched today as an iPhone keyboard translation app that adds tone-based translations for different audiences. It offers 50 free translations before you need to top up with in-app credits. As a result, users can preview and tap to replace text in six languages directly while typing.