IIdeogram 4.0 now comes with open weights

Ideogram has always been one of the best at generating text in images, and now they’ve released the model publicly. And this isn’t just a cosmetic upgrade on top of the old version — it’s a brand-new model trained from scratch with 9.3 billion parameters.

What it can do:
• Generates text and typography good enough to deliver to clients, including in multiple languages
• 2K resolution out of the box and wide formats up to 6:1 — perfect for banners and posters
• You can directly tell the model where each object and text element should be placed — using JSON with coordinates
• You can define colors with hex codes in the prompt, no more “make it bluer”

The highlight of the release is structured JSON prompts. Simply put: instead of a huge block of text, you give the model a clean set of structured data, and it understands the request much more accurately.

➡️Runs locally: minimum 8–12 GB of VRAM, 24 GB recommended for a smooth experience. And if you don’t want to install it — there’s an API starting at $0.03 per image.

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A hacker breached at least 14 companies without knowing how to code: Claude did everything.

The vibe hacker launched Claude Code and gave it vague commands for reconnaissance and exploitation. The AI searched for vulnerabilities, wrote offensive code, and stole data on its own.

🛑The safety restrictions were bypassed with a simple wrapper: all it took was claiming to be a senior penetration tester with 15 years of experience and saying it was testing in his own lab. Across more than a thousand Claude sessions, the AI refused only 9 times, and almost every refusal was bypassed by rephrasing the request.

The funniest part: he wasn’t even running Claude on his own server — he was using a server he had previously hacked himself.

🛑The owner noticed, downloaded the hacker’s working folder, and handed it over to researchers. Inside was a resume the guy had also edited with Claude, containing all his details: name, city, LinkedIn, and even home IP address — that’s how they found him.

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A robot police officer in the USA has been retired — the machine was deemed unfit for duty.

👀The $128,000 robot was supposed to help local police officers monitor public safety and improve security in neighborhoods.

🚬 However, over the past 10 months, the robot failed to show any significant results: it neither caught any offenders nor issued any fines.

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The number of vibe coders with no connection to software development has grown 137× in a year — OpenAI has released a major study on how AI agents are changing the way we work. 👀

In short:

✨ People are using Codex for longer and more complex tasks. 70.2% of users have assigned it a task lasting more than an hour at least once, and 25.6% have given it tasks that would take a human more than eight hours;

✨ Codex has become the main AI tool across all OpenAI departments: from engineering to legal, finance, and recruiting. The most active OpenAI employees run more than 60 hours of agent work in parallel in a single day;

✨ Agents are growing fastest among people who don’t work in software development at all. Since August, the number of such users has increased 137× among regular customers and 189× among enterprise users.

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