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Meta released Muse Glimmer, a 30B open-weights model under an Apache 2.0 license, optimized for agentic task completion, reliable tool use, and multi-step reasoning. Developer Simon Willison tested the model via LM Studi…
S4 Capital plc and its Monks agency are confronting rising AI token costs, which co-founder and chief AI officer Wesley ter Haar says are 'exploding' at Monks. S4 Capital's first-half operating profit doubled to £35.2 mi…
Researchers propose Barycentric Rational Forecasting with Chebyshev Enhancement (BRACE), a method that uses barycentric rational functions to forecast cached features in Diffusion Transformers (DiTs), improving inference…
A new arXiv study (arXiv:2608.08082v1) finds that classifier-free guidance (CFG) can be switched off early in masked diffusion language models without hurting performance, with the commitment horizon varying more within …
Researchers propose LayoutDSL, a large language model-based framework that generates indoor layouts by learning a policy in a domain-specific language action space, improving spatial plausibility and design logicality ov…
Researchers from Alibaba's Qwen team developed a three-stage framework for multimodal follow-up edit suggestions in image-creation conversations, trained on 100,000 real samples from Qwen App. In a live A/B test with mil…
Researchers introduced COMEX, a benchmark with 33,161 quadruples of expanded images, crop boxes, composition categories, and explanations, to reformulate explainable aesthetic image cropping as a structured crop-composit…
DeepSeek surpassed Google to become the second-largest lab by token volume on Vercel's AI Gateway in July 2026, running more than twice Google's volume, while the average price paid per token fell 13.6% despite 37% growt…
Athena Scalzi, in a post on her father's blog, argues that comparing generative AI to Guitar Hero is flawed because Guitar Hero requires skill and provides cognitive benefits, while AI harms cognitive functioning and ste…
Plethora, a new social platform for interactive media, launched to let users discover, create, and collect interactive content such as mini-games, generative art, and simulations. The platform introduces 'Bits' as the un…
MiniMax, the Shanghai-based generative AI company founded by Yan Junjie, posted a teaser on X asking followers to guess who appears in a video or picture, but the post's attachment was not accessible in the supplied capt…
A developer has released an open-source AI-powered interactive laboratory for exploring alternative histories and causal consequences, called 'The Butterfly Effect.' The tool allows users to simulate historical intervent…
Jeff Kaufman revived his lightweight MBTA bus predictions page, originally built in 2015 using the NextBus API, after the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority moved to its own API and broke the app. Using Claude, a…
Genians Security Center reported Monday that North Korea's Kimsuky hacking group has installed local AI platforms including Ollama, GPT4All, and Msty, and is using generative AI to create phishing documents targeting vir…
Google's Pixel phones have used AI and machine learning for over a decade to advance phone photography, with features like Night Sight, Magic Eraser, and Best Take, according to an exclusive interview with Isaac Reynolds…
Sprout, a platform for AI-built apps, launched a global feed where users can create mini apps with a prompt in minutes, share them instantly, and use or remix apps made by the community. The feed currently lists 71 apps,…
Antirez released h3.c, a native MiniMax-H3 inference engine for Apple Silicon Macs, with prompt-to-video/audio, first/last-frame conditioning, and ordered Ref2VA references working end to end. The project currently focus…
Sketchling, a hand-drawn animation language for coding agents, was released this weekend by a developer who tested it with Devin, resulting in a 3-minute, 9-scene short film. The TypeScript library uses rough.js and GSAP…
GitHub added Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model, to Copilot's model picker on August 6, marking the first time a model of this scale with public weights is available in a mainstream coding …
Airship Labs released Airship, a Figma-like visual editor that connects to a developer's running dev server and lets them edit code through Claude Code, Codex, or OpenCode, with no plugins or config. The CLI tool, availa…