😄 Canva has company

Google has started rolling out Google Pics, a new image creation and editing tool for Workspace. Powered by the latest version of Nano Banana, the service works much like Canva.

What it can do:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/google-rolls-out-nano-banana-powered-pics-image-editor-for-workspace

🤔 Multitasking, sort of

The iPhone Ultra will reportedly be limited to two apps on screen at once. Some apps will get more iPad-like layouts, but full windowed multitasking isn’t expected.

There are a few better details, though:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/iphone-ultra-foldable-two-apps-multitasking

🤩 Free Claude

Anthropic is opening 10,000 spots for researchers worldwide, offering free access to Claude for a year and up to $50,000 in compute credits for eligible research projects.

Some restrictions remain:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/anthropic-free-claude-access-scientists-researchers

😏 See you in court

TCL is suing Samsung, claiming it sold conventional LED TVs as premium Mini LED models.

What the lawsuit claims:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/tcl-sues-samsung-mini-led-false-advertising

😆 Careful where you tap

A new WhatsApp vulnerability on Android can expose private photos without requiring the phone to be unlocked.

Not every Android device is affected:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/whatsapp-android-lock-screen-photo-vulnerability

🤗 Fair use wins one

The US government has sided → with OpenAI in its copyright fight with The New York Times, arguing that copyrighted material can legally be used to train AI models under fair use.

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😄 Time to slow down

Sam Altman says OpenAI had to slow the training of a new frontier model after a sharp jump in capabilities during reinforcement learning.

Why OpenAI hit the brakes:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/sam-altman-self-learning-ai-risks-openai

😀 Nvidia buys Hugging Face

Nvidia is acquiring Hugging Face for nearly $13 billion, bringing the major open-source AI platform into its expanding ecosystem.

What happens to the platform now:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/nvidia-acquires-hugging-face-11-9-billion

🧠 GPT-6 Astra

OpenAI has launched its new flagship model, GPT-6 Astra, calling the release the beginning of the AGI era.

Astra was trained on more than 100,000 GPUs and set records in several reasoning and science benchmarks.

Benchmarks, pricing, API access and rollout details:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/openai-gpt-6-astra-launch-benchmarks-features

🛸 AI around the house

Nvidia has launched PAIR, a free open-source tool that distributes AI workloads across compatible computers on the same home network.

How it works:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/nvidia-pair-local-ai-cluster-home-pcs

👍 Chefs know best

Dubai-born byChefs is taking its chef-powered restaurant rankings to new markets, with London, Milan, Singapore and New York next on its expansion list. The platform has already brought together more than 500 leading chefs, whose votes determine which restaurants make the rankings in each city.

The next step is a consumer app featuring an AI-powered dining concierge, built around the same chef recommendations and designed to help users find restaurants for specific occasions, dishes or locations.

Inside byChefs and its global expansion:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/bychefs-dubai-global-restaurant-ranking-chefs-ai-concierge