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Manycore Tech, a Chinese spatial-intelligence company, launched Lux3D on Aug. 27, a tool that generates 3D assets from text or images, with Turbo Mode producing models in as little as 20 seconds, and began testing a next…
AI coding agents are now able to render a single frame of a product video, check it, and fix it in about a second, treating video as code that can be edited and re-rendered like a failing test. Two programming models—com…
Calibre 9.14, the latest update to the open-source e-book management software, adds an AI-powered book cover generator that lets users create covers in styles such as romance, science fiction, and pulp fiction via an ima…
McKinsey research finds finance teams using generative AI on specific, repeatable tasks cut data-crunching time by 20-30%, with one global consumer goods company eliminating roughly 30% of manual budget-variance effort, …
Google has launched Expert Intelligence in Gemini Notebook, allowing users to import select owned titles from Google Play Books into the AI research tool, with more than 100,000 ebooks available from publishers including…
Researchers propose the Visual Information-Guided Sampler (VIG-Sampler), a new decoding method for diffusion multimodal large language models that prioritizes tokens based on their attention to image tokens, outperformin…
Researchers propose Text-to-Seed (T2S), a training-free framework that repurposes Stable Diffusion as a text-guided seed generator to improve open-vocabulary semantic segmentation with the Segment Anything Model (SAM). B…
A new survey from arXiv (2608.26214v1) organizes the 2024-2026 literature on surgical video generation into three categories—unconditional generation, conditional generation, and world modeling generation—highlighting a …
Researchers propose a zero-shot video restoration and enhancement framework using a text-to-image latent diffusion model and multi-modal references, reducing inference time to nearly one-third of the original while impro…
MiniMax released H3 Max, a focused workspace for creating short AI videos from text prompts or still images, featuring stronger prompt adherence and image-to-video capabilities. The tool supports 5-15 second clips with c…
An informal community discussion highlights that AI video generation still struggles with character consistency across multiple scenes, despite rapid improvements in realism and cinematic quality. The author asks practit…
Butterlamp Audio released Tilichu, a $99 wavetable synthesizer for macOS in VST3, AU, and standalone formats, featuring an AI generator that creates patches from text descriptions, 400+ factory presets, and Serum 2/Vital…
Google has begun a global rollout of Scene Extension in the Gemini app for Google AI Plus, Pro, and Ultra subscribers, enabling users to extend existing videos with newly generated footage. The feature is part of Gemini …
AWS published an integration guide on 27 August 2026 showing how to connect Amazon Quick, its agent workspace, to fal, a generative media platform with over 1,000 models, via the Model Context Protocol (MCP). The guide d…
Fal AI prices its hosted Hunyuan H3 Max video model at about 12.5 cents per 5-second 480p clip and roughly 25 cents at 720p during a promotional period, with post-promo rates rising to about 25 cents at 480p and 40 cents…
Fal AI's hosted Hunyuan H3 Max generates 5-second video clips in 2-3 seconds, while local H3 workflows on consumer GPUs take 80-90 seconds per clip but cost nothing beyond electricity, according to a hands-on comparison.…
Hunyuan Video 3, an open-weight video generation model, can now be run locally in ComfyUI with an 8-step Turbo LoRA and sage attention to generate 5-second clips in roughly 80 to 90 seconds on a capable home GPU, down fr…
Amazon Quick and fal have partnered to build agentic creative workflows that address the 78% of creative leaders reporting demand exceeds team capacity, using Amazon Quick as the agent workspace, fal's platform of more t…
Google is expanding Gemini in Chrome into a more context-aware desktop experience with a new Personal Intelligence beta that connects data from Google apps like Gmail, Calendar, and Docs to provide personalized assistanc…
Adobe announced on Thursday a new AI Assisted Editor mode for Photoshop, currently in beta, that lets users edit images with natural language prompts alongside the classic Pro Editor. The feature, part of a broader updat…