Google released DiffusionGemma, a new open model with up to 4x faster output!

> Instead of predicting word-by-word, it generates entire blocks of text simultaneously. This lets the model self-correct and format complex markdown in real time.

Same performance as Gemma 4 is a big deal. Wondering if it is based on the model previewed last year.

GOOGLE 🔥: NotebookLM will soon support textbooks as a source!

Google Play Books and Text Books, all there.
h/t @Thomasguka

Maket launches floor plan upload for residential design

Maket’s beta floor plan upload converts PDFs, JPGs, and PNGs into editable layouts in under a minute, tracing key elements and flagging low-confidence areas. The paid v2 feature supports renovation workflows and 3D viewing.

🗞 #sponsored @testingcatalog

Perplexity Deep Research is now available on Perplexity Computer as a native skill.

> Computer breaks the hardest questions into subtasks, routes them across 20+ frontier models, and returns work-ready reports, decks, and dashboards.

> Available now to Pro and Max subscribers.

Even Deep Research is a Computer 👀

Codex now has an icon selector with new Lite and Dark options available.

Classic, Lite, or Dark? 👀

GOOGLE 🔥: Gemini Omni Flash will soon be available via APIs for image-to-video, text-to-video, and video editing!

Did it get updated again after the release? 👀

For the next 2 weeks, Codex users can invite up to 3 friends to get a one-time rate limit reset that can be saved for later.

Hoarding time 👀

KIMI AI🔥: A new open-source “Kimi K2.7 Code” model has been released on APIs and Huggingface!

> Improved coding & agent performance over K2.6
> Reasoning efficiency
> Long-horizon coding

Testing time 👀

Meta AI to get new modes for Deep Research, Social, and Slides

Meta is testing three web modes for Meta AI: Deep Research for source-based summaries, Presentation for shareable slide decks, and Social for cross-app post discovery. Together, they widen its scope beyond chat and lean on Meta’s social graph.

🗞 #meta @testingcatalog

Meta is preparing to add 3 new modes for Meta AI: Deep Research, Presentations, and Social.

All these features are already working, but users can now explicitly select what they want.

Closing gaps 👀

NVIDIA ❤️ MiniMax

MiniMax M3 weights are now available on Huggingface, and NVIDIA now offers a Free Endpoint on its platform for testing.

Testing time 👀

MiniMax M3 launches on NVIDIA platform with Free Endpoint

MiniMax M3 is now on NVIDIA infrastructure, offering multimodal text, image, and video reasoning with 428B parameters and 1M-token context. Built for enterprise workloads, it delivers faster inference and native multimodal training.

🗞 #nvidia @testingcatalog