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The Hypir-Sd2 model, developed by 0x3f3f3f3fun at the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, performs image restoration and upscaling using diffusion-based score priors, built on Stable Diffusion 2.1 with LoRA weigh…
Aaronjmars has released Unirig-Ai, an AI model on Replicate that automatically generates skeletal rigs and skinning weights for 3D models across humans, animals, and objects. Based on SIGGRAPH'25 UniRig research from Tsi…
Kfarr's Sharp-Ml model, based on Apple's SHARP, converts a single photograph into 3D Gaussian splats in under a second via a neural network feedforward pass. The model achieves state-of-the-art results, reducing perceptu…
FoundationVision has released Infinity, a bitwise visual autoregressive text-to-image model that generates 1024×1024 photorealistic images in 0.8 seconds, outperforming diffusion models like SD3-Medium and SDXL on key be…
Wan-Video's Wan-2.7-T2v, built on Alibaba's Wan 2.7 architecture, is an advanced text-to-video model that generates up to 15-second 1080p videos with synchronized audio. It uses a diffusion transformer and a proprietary …
A promising new indie game on Steam triggered backlash after using AI, with skeptics accusing it of being 'slop.' The backlash highlights growing community sensitivity to AI-generated content in games.
The World Bank's World Development Report 2026 finds that developing economies have more to gain and less to fear from AI than richer ones, with only 4.5% of jobs in low- and middle-income countries amenable to automatio…
Google has launched a global campaign for its AI assistant Gemini featuring BTS member Jimin, who used the tool to compose messages for his fans. The campaign follows Google's partnership with BTS to project Korean lands…
A user experimenting with AI video tools asks the community for techniques to make AI-generated videos look more realistic, noting that unnatural movement and small details changing between frames are common giveaways. T…
Training AI on copyrighted books may be legal under US fair use doctrine, according to proponents who argue that AI training is transformative and non-expressive, but authors are fighting back as AI models can mimic spec…
British and Irish police have confirmed that viral TikTok videos of a 'killer' Cat in the Hat prowling streets are AI-generated hoaxes, after the clips were watched millions of times and sparked fear among teenagers. Sou…
As of August 2026, the best open LLM to run locally depends on VRAM, with gpt-oss-20b recommended for 8-12GB, Gemma 4 31B or Qwen3.6-35B-A3B for 24GB, and gpt-oss-120b or DeepSeek V4 Flash for 128GB unified memory, accor…
Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) requires a crawlable content layer with canonical Q&A, structured data, a vector index plus LLM middleware, and GA4-to-CRM attribution, according to a 2026 guide on integrating GEO in…
Prompt optimization for brands is the systematic design, testing, versioning, and evaluation of prompts and prompt contexts so AI answer engines accurately mention, recommend, and cite a brand, according to Prominara. Th…
A new open-source project demonstrates a keyless AI text adventure game, "Die Ruine von Aldenmoor," built in ~600 lines of Pipe and run entirely on the OpenCode Zen free tier with zero API keys and zero cost. The game us…
Worldcraft, a new AI text-adventure game built in pure Pipe and running on the OpenCode Zen free tier at $0.00 per session, generates a personalized world from a free-text briefing and player profile, saves it as a reusa…
A three-month Wagtail user guide project achieved 5x faster monthly content operations and a viable path to 52 language translations via fully automated draft AI translations, according to contributor Raghaddahi. The ove…
Judith Klein, in a paper presented at the 26th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT) in June 2026 in Tilburg, Netherlands, introduced advanced CAT tool features in STAR Transit desi…
Ben Houston has built a Neural Texture Compression implementation for Three.js that replaces stacks of correlated PBR textures with a compact multiresolution feature grid and a tiny MLP decoder, with sample materials run…
Solo indie developer from Japan upgraded the local LLM powering the commercial game Hex Judge from Gemma 2 9B to Gemma 4 E4B, cutting AI conversation startup time on an RTX 2060 from about 45 seconds to less than 1 secon…