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Wednesday, July 22

3 items
Video generation only one source so far

Blomkamp's Nightborne project shows the limits of AI in video creation

Director Neill Blomkamp presented Nightborne, a 13-minute sci-fi short film created with ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 generator through his new AI company, Barley Studios. The project demonstrates practical applications of text-to-video AI, but critics point to persistent artifacts — nonsensical text on…

Tuesday, July 21

10 items
Robotics only one source so far

The state of simulation for physical AI: An overview

An article describes the role of physics simulations in training AI robotic systems. Simulations can generate large amounts of training data (thousands of hours of robotic experience) at a fraction of the cost of real data collection. The architecture has three layers: training on GPU clusters, GPU physics simulations and…

Hugging Face Blog Original source ↗
Productivity only one source so far

13 tips from Google: AI for students' summer productivity

A guide with 13 tips for using Google's AI products (Gemini, YouTube Learning, Canvas, Search Live) during the summer — from finding an internship and learning new skills to practicing interviews. Promotional content from Google.

Google — Gemini blog (official release channel) Original source ↗
Business and investment only one source so far

OpenAI recommends that businesses measure AI value with Useful Intelligence Per Dollar

OpenAI is publishing a "scorecard for the AI age" for measuring the value of AI investments. Instead of measuring token counts, it recommends "Useful Intelligence Per Dollar", a metric focused on total costs (including employee time, checks and corrections) and achieved outcomes. According to a PWC study, only 12 % of executives so far see…

Tools and apps only one source so far

Maia Labs' ColoMaia healthcare AI deployed in 14 Agel group hospitals

Brno startup Maia Labs deployed its ColoMaia polyp detection system in 14 Agel group hospitals in Czechia and Slovakia. The system analyzes endoscopic images in real time and alerts doctors to suspicious findings. The startup obtained European CE certification and is preparing for FDA approval; the system already…

Business and investment only one source so far

AI companies buy old printed books as training data

AI companies buy old printed books as training data for their models because the books are not contaminated by AI-generated content. ISBNdb offers a high-volume book purchasing service and claims (in its own promotional material) that old books contain curated, peer-reviewed content ideal for training…

404 Media (investigative tech journalism) Original source ↗

Monday, July 20

2 items
AI agents only one source so far

Coding agents lower the economic barriers to reverse engineering

The author argues that coding agents substantially reduce the cost of writing code. This changes the economics of home automation: reverse engineering undocumented device APIs previously was not worthwhile because of future maintenance; now that development is cheap, failure and rewriting a solution are acceptable.

Simon Willison — AI tag (leading independent LLM commentator) Original source ↗
New models only one source so far

Qwen 3.8 Max released as open weights; debate over the right to distill models

Alibaba released Qwen 3.8 Max (2.4 trillion parameters) as open weights, reversing its earlier decision not to release Qwen 3.7 Max. The article speculates that the decision may have been influenced by Xi Jinping's speech on open-source collaboration. A US proposal to legalize model distillation and data collection is discussed…

Simon Willison — AI tag (leading independent LLM commentator) Original source ↗

Saturday, July 18

1 item

Friday, July 17

2 items
Security only one source so far

Kimi K3 refuses to reveal its system prompt

Simon Willison published a brief comment on the behavior of Kimi K3, which refused attempts to extract its system prompt. The model responded by asking: ‘Is there anything I could actually help with today?’ This is an observation of model safety behavior, rather than a new release or functionality.

Simon Willison — AI tag (leading independent LLM commentator) Original source ↗

Monday, July 13

1 item

Friday, July 10

1 item