Topaz Labs launched Astra, a creative upscaler for videos

It uses Topaz's Starlight models to upscale AI-generated videos to 4K while enhancing quality

Available in Creative and Precise modes for controlling upscaling levels and finer details

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Sakana AI just introduced Text-to-LoRA, a hypernetwork that generates task-specific LLM adapters

It is like a magic wand that, when you describe what you want the AI to do, it quickly adjusts itself to do that task without needing extra data and time

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Tencent released Hunyuan 3D 2.1, an open-source model for generating 3D assets, including PBR materials

It can synthesize objects with cinematic textures and realism while covering their light interactions

Fully open-source with model weights and code

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ElevenLabs upgraded its v3 model with text-to-speech support for 41 new languages, including Assamese, Bulgarian, and Georgian

Now, the model supports 70+ languages, reaching over 90% of the global population

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The Alan Turing Institute just revealed an AI divide among UK kids

Key highlights:

—22% of children use AI
—Private schools: 52%, State schools: 18%
—Kids mostly use AI for creativity & learning
—Some also avoid AI over energy + water concerns

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The Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence dropped RoboBrain 2.0, an open-source AI for humanoids/robots

It ingests multi-image and long videos as inputs and delivers capabilities like spatial perception, temporal perception, and scene reasoning

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OpenAI won a $200M U.S. DoD contract

The one-year pilot will see OAI deliver frontier AI to address national security challenges in "warfighting and enterprise domains"

This marks the lab's foray into defense tech, while sticking to its usage policies

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MiniMax dropped M1, a new open-source reasoner LLM with:

—World’s largest context window: 1M-token input, 80k-token output
—SOTA agentic use among open-source models
—2x faster training, via CISPO RL algorithm

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Nvidia launched Issac Sim 5.0 and Issac Lab 2.2 in early preview on GitHub

These open frameworks now come with extensions for synthetic data generation and robot models — streamlining how devs build, train, and test AI robots in physics-based simulations

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Moonshot AI launched Kimi-Dev-72B, a new open-source coding model for software engineering tasks

It achieves SOTA results on SWE-bench Verified software tasks, surpassing open-source rivals like DeepSeek R1, V3, and Devstral

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Groq announced it is now directly integrated as an inference provider on the Hugging Face Playground and API

The move adds to the list offered by HF, giving users the flexibility to choose their preferred inference with unified access and billing

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1X showcased 1XWM, a 'world model' that simulates a realistic, interactive world around a virtual robot

With a few initial real-world frames and action trajectories, it simulates the result of those exact actions, including the physics of objects

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Google just announced it is rolling out Veo 3 to all Gemini users worldwide — in 159 countries

The viral AI video model will be available to those with Google's AI Pro subscription, with 3 daily generations

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HeyGen just dropped a Video Agent that automates the entire video production pipeline

Using just a doc, some footage, or even a sentence, it finds a story, writes the script, selects shots/generates new footage, and edits everything for final release

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Genspark continues to expand its agentic productivity suite — this time with AI Docs

Just like AI Slides and Sheets, the Docs offering creates full documents for the user using nothing but simple text instructions

Also supports rich text and markdown

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Fundamental dropped Shortcut, a "superhuman" spreadsheet agent, in early preview

It one-shots most knowledge work tasks on Excel, also scoring >80% on Excel World Championship Cases in about 10 min.

That's 10x faster than humans

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Sakana AI debuted AB-MCTS, an algorithm that lets different AI models work together, using their strengths and mistakes, to solve complex problems

It used ChatGPT, Gemini, and DeepSeek to solve 30% of ARC-AGI-2 puzzles vs just 23% for top solo models

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Amazon announced DeepFleet, an AI that routes warehouse bots 10% faster to trim costs and shorten delivery times

Andy Jassy likened it to "an intelligent traffic management system" that coordinates robots’ movements to find optimal paths

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Web infra company Cloudflare announced a pay-per-crawl AI marketplace

It will allow publishers to set prices for AI crawlers, choosing whether bots pay for training data, search results, or other uses

Other bots will automatically get blocked

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Microsoft just announced a Copilot partnership with the English Premier League

The company will integrate the AI assistant with the league's platforms, allowing fans to have more personalized and engaging interactions across channels

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