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OpenAI releases ChatGPT Images 2.0; Willison benchmarks improvement via Where's Waldo-style prompt testing against predecessor.

Apple's top job comes with almost unrivaled power and money, but it comes with plenty of baggage, too.

Claude Code removed from Claude Pro plan feature list; support docs updated to mention Max plan only.

Can ChatGPT be blamed for a mass shooting? Florida is investigating.

GPT-Image-2 achieves top ranking on Arena text-to-image leaderboard with significant margin over competitors.

Reddit commentary claiming GPT-Image 2 represents largest quality jump in image generation.

Move highlights the difficulty of finding high-quality interactive training data.

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Images 2.0, improved image generation model showing enhanced reasoning and creative color application.

User test confirms Image Gen 2 produces photorealistic outputs with high fidelity on complex prompts like candid documentary photography.

Speculation that Ling-2.6-Flash is the Elephant Alpha model from earlier reports.

Founded by an OSU researcher, the startup is developing AI agents that can become experts in any domain.

Unsloth releases Kimi K2.6 GGUF quantization with Dynamic 2.0 optimization.

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Ask Americans how they feel about AI and most say they have concerns. Communities have mounted resistance to data center projects, stalling them across the US. On social media, anger at AI companies and executives is unrestrained - sometimes to the point of condoning violence. But look at the issues that most campaigns are focused on, and AI is far less prevalent, experts say. More than 60 percent of both Republicans and Democrats polled by Ipsos earlier this year agree that the government should regulate AI for economic stability and public safety, and that the technology's development shoul...

An image generated by ChatGPT Images 2.0. | Image: OpenAI OpenAI is rolling out the latest version of its AI-powered image generator with new "thinking capabilities," allowing it to search the web to help it create multiple images from a single prompt. In a blog post, OpenAI says ChatGPT Images 2.0 can now create more "sophisticated" images, with improvements to its ability to follow instructions, preserve details of your choosing, and generate text. It's powered by OpenAI's new GPT Image 2 model, with new thinking capabilities available to ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise subscrib...

ChatGPT Images 2.0, the newest image-generation model from OpenAI, shows just how much AI capabilities have evolved over the last few years.

The AI industry's mudslinging continues.

Anecdotal observation about Claude's conversational patterns resembling fictional character Mr. Meeseeks.

I am running into a pretty serious reasoning issue with Claude Opus 4.7. In my case, the problem is not just that it made a mistake or misunderstood a complex codebase. It seems unable to maintain a logical thread even across a few sentences. I was discussing a communication protocol and a very specific issue involving the encapsulation of 2 packets. This was not an especially obscure topic, just a technical discussion where consistency across consecutive messages really matters. But it keeps losing the thread almost immediately. It will accept premise A, then a couple of sentences later r...

User demonstrates llama.cpp auto-fit enables 57 t/s on Qwen3.6 Q8 256k context despite weights exceeding 32GB VRAM.

Remember when Framework made the first laptop where you can easily upgrade its entire internal video card in three minutes flat? The company's getting into the external graphics game, too. As promised last August, you'll be able to turn the Framework Laptop 16's GPU modules into external ones instead. Or, you can plug in a desktop graphics card (or network card, or other PCIe cards) for more power than most laptops ever dream of having, with eight lanes of PCI-Express bandwidth. Framework's calling it the OCuLink Dev Kit, because it uses the OCuLink standard to transmit data between your CPU ...

Deezer reports 44% of new music uploads AI-generated; most streams flagged as fraudulent activity.

Neural networks trained at edge of stability converge to fractal attractors; Lyapunov dimension theory explains improved generalization from chaotic optimization.

Central limit theorems for wide random neural networks on spheres show three distinct regimes based on covariance function fixed points.

Method for safe continual RL in non-stationary environments addresses constraint satisfaction during learning and deployment.

UniT framework enables human-to-humanoid policy transfer via unified visual latent action space, addressing kinematic mismatch in robotic learning.

FASTER reduces computational cost of sampling-based RL by modeling denoising as MDP, enabling faster test-time scaling.

I’ve been building plugins for Claude Code, and the first version of the idea was very Claude-focused. That made sense at the start. Claude Code has a real plugin model, hooks are useful, and it is one of the few agent tools where plugins can actually become part of a daily workflow. But after building a few integrations, I kept running into the same uncomfortable question: If I write the useful part of a plugin once, why should I rewrite or repackage the same thing again for Codex, Gemini, Cursor, OpenCode, and whatever comes next? The actual plugin logic is often not Claude-specific. Th...

FB-NLL uses feature-centric approach to handle noisy labels in personalized federated learning via decoupled clustering.

VLA Foundry open-source framework unifies LLM, VLM, and VLA training with end-to-end control from pretraining to action fine-tuning.