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Adobe has agreed to acquire Topaz Labs, an Emmy-winning AI company specializing in image and video enhancement, to integrate its upscaling, restoration, and on-device AI capabilities into Adobe's creative tools like Phot…
Adobe is acquiring Topaz Labs to integrate its on-device AI inference technology, NeuroStream, and Emmy-winning enhancement models into Creative Cloud, aiming to compete with Canva and Blackmagic Design. The deal, announ…
Baidu released Unlimited OCR, an open-source 3-billion-parameter model that uses Reference Sliding Window Attention to parse multi-page documents in a single pass, eliminating the need for page-by-page OCR pipelines. The…
Chinese physical AI start-up Fysics AI launched Fysiverse, a physics-based world model that embeds real-world physical laws into its code, diverging from data-driven approaches used by OpenAI and Meta. Founded by former …
Adobe acquired Topaz Labs, an AI-powered image and video enhancement tool maker, to integrate its models into Adobe's Firefly app and Creative Cloud suite. The deal aims to strengthen Adobe's AI capabilities and retain u…
Hugging Face's top-voted papers on June 25, 2026, reveal a trend of AI shifting from question-answering to world-acting models. Key papers include Qwen-AgentWorld, which uses a language world model for generalist agents;…
AAEON released the EPIC-PTH9, a 4-inch industrial single-board computer with Intel Core Ultra Series 3 processors, delivering up to 180 TOPS of AI performance. The board features PCIe Gen 5 x8 expansion, multiple LAN and…
Samsung's Galaxy S26 Ultra, starting at $1,300, introduces a Privacy Display feature that effectively blocks screen peeking but comes with tradeoffs like reduced screen quality. The phone offers flagship performance, sol…
LocalClicky, a new open-source voice assistant for Mac, runs entirely offline using local AI models like Whisper.cpp and Ollama, ensuring no voice data, screenshots, or commands leave the user's machine. The tool offers …
FIFA is tracking 150 million data points per match at the 2026 World Cup, with AI companies like Stats Perform and Lenovo providing tools for player scouting, tactics, and penalty analysis. Teams such as Curaçao use data…
A developer participating in the Gemma 4 challenge built Dresscode, an AI stylist that uses computer vision to digitize wardrobes and LLM function calling to recommend weather-appropriate outfits. The project demonstrate…
AMD engineer Steven Xiao contributed an ONNX Runtime back-end for FFmpeg's DNN filter, enabling AI model inferencing on multiple GPU and NPU platforms including NVIDIA CUDA, Windows DirectML, and AMD Ryzen AI NPU. This i…
Berlin-based Almetra, formerly Deltia, raised €16.3M in Series A funding led by blisce/ to expand its AI-powered factory video analytics platform into the US. The startup mounts AI cameras above assembly lines to convert…
A developer built two browser-based background removal tools—one using the Canvas API for uniform backgrounds and another using WebAssembly with an ONNX Runtime machine learning model for complex backgrounds. Benchmarkin…
Seeed's reComputer AI Lab, an edge AI development platform, now supports one-click deployment of YOLO models on RK3588/RK3576 hardware. The platform pre-packages 18 YOLO variants across YOLOv5, YOLOv8, and YOLO11, using …
AMD released FSR SDK v2.3, updating Ray Regeneration to v1.2 with quality improvements and optional denoising, and introducing FSR Upscaling 4.1.1 for RDNA 3 GPUs. The SDK also includes FSR Frame Generation 4.0.1 with so…
Nvidia AI Labs researcher Ziv Ilan presented at GTC 2026 that video diffusion models can achieve real-time performance without 50 denoising steps by using a stack of quantization, caching, and distillation techniques. Th…
The National Institute for Health and Care Research awarded £8.1 million to six AI and digital innovation projects, including two Oxford-led studies. SAMURAI-CT will evaluate AI-assisted head CT interpretation in emergen…
A developer built a tabletop robot arm that understands spoken commands and picks up objects using only a MacBook Air, with no cloud dependency. The system runs three AI models locally—speech-to-text, a language model fo…
Baidu released Unlimited OCR, a 3B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model that uses Reference Sliding Window Attention to keep KV cache constant, enabling efficient parsing of dozens of pages in one forward pass. The model s…