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A new study demonstrates that discrete diffusion models, when combined with online fine-tuning, replay mechanisms, and validity penalties, outperform traditional methods in molecular optimization across small-molecule an…
Scammers in Southeast Asia are using generative AI to clone the faces and voices of trusted leaders, including Singapore's Prime Minister Lawrence Wong, to defraud victims. In one case, a deepfake of Wong on a Zoom call …
Vercel's AI Gateway now supports Seedream 5.0 Pro, an image generation and editing model from ByteDance that creates text-accurate images and infographics. The gateway offers unified API access, usage tracking, and cost …
Meta removed a controversial AI feature on Instagram that let users modify photos from public accounts without notification, following backlash over privacy concerns and potential misuse. The feature, part of the Muse Im…
Meta reversed its policy on using public Instagram profiles for AI training after backlash over its Muse Image model, which automatically opted users into generating AI content without notification. The company had launc…
Meta has disabled an Instagram feature that allowed users to create AI-generated images of public accounts without permission, following widespread backlash over privacy and safety concerns. The feature, announced earlie…
Meta suspended an AI image feature that let users generate images by tagging public Instagram accounts, following backlash from talent agencies and performers over its opt-out policy. The feature, introduced Tuesday, was…
In a head-to-head comparison of AI video generation models, Gemini Omni Flash decisively defeated AnimateDiff with a score of 34.8 to 14.6, winning all four tasks with 97% confidence. Gemini Omni Flash outperformed on pr…
A ProPublica investigation into Texas oil refinery startup America First Refining, which secretly received investment from Donald Trump Jr., uncovered that the company's CEO John Calce had created a fake subsidiary websi…
Meta has removed a feature that let users generate AI images from public Instagram posts after user backlash. The tool, which required users to opt out to prevent their content from being used, was pulled based on feedba…
Founders must now optimize for AI chatbots like ChatGPT rather than traditional search engines, as Gartner predicts a 25% drop in search volume by 2026 and Google's AI Overviews produce zero-click results for 80-83% of q…
A developer built Captrix AI, a browser-based caption studio for short creator videos, during the TestSprite Hackathon Season 3. The tool uses OpenAI Codex, Next.js, React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Hugging Face Transfor…
A developer built Sonic Kinetic, a workout timer that uses Google Gemini to generate interval routines and ElevenLabs to produce real-time audio coaching with variable intensity. The Go backend sends workout parameters t…
Researchers propose a novel method for selecting diverse and informative subsets of synthetic images, reducing redundancy and improving AI model performance without retraining generators. The approach outperforms existin…
VideoAgent, a new AI framework for long-form video editing, automates shot creation and uses multi-agent orchestration to generate coherent narratives, achieving an 87-95% orchestration success rate and cutting API costs…
Researchers introduced ELBO-T2IAlign, a plug-and-play method that improves text-image alignment in diffusion models without retraining. The approach uses zero-shot referring image segmentation to enhance pixel-level alig…
VideoAgent, a new AI-driven video editing framework, achieves orchestration success rates of 87-95% and reduces API costs by 60%, outperforming existing multimodal LLMs on the VideoEdit benchmark. The system uses over th…
A new analysis reveals that 56% of CEOs report zero return on AI investments, while enterprise AI projects face widespread cancellations and cost overruns. Major companies including Accenture, Meta, Amazon, and Uber are …
Google quietly launched Magic Pointer on the Play Store, offering an early preview of its AI-powered desktop experience for the upcoming Googlebook. The app turns any on-screen selection into a Gemini prompt, surfacing c…
Open-source software faces a crisis as generative AI accelerates structural exhaustion, supply chain warfare, and the industrialization of code generation. Maintainers of critical packages are burning out under the press…