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- Video Generation Models are General-Purpose Vision Learners
GenCeption turns a pretrained video generation diffusion model into a unified, feed‑forward vision system that matches or beats task‑specific SOTA across depth, normals, pose, segmentation and keypoints using text prompts.
- Gemini's personalized AI image generation is now free for US users
Google expands Gemini's personalized Nano Banana-powered image generation to eligible free users in the U.S., using data from connected Google apps.
- [2606.26907] Qwen-Image-Agent: Bridging the Context Gap in Real-World Image Generation
The paper proposes Qwen-Image-Agent, a unified agentic framework that uses planning, reasoning, search, memory, and feedback to bridge the context gap in real-world text-to-image generation.
- [2606.25996] Autodata: An agentic data scientist to create high quality synthetic data
Autodata uses AI agents as data scientists to create high-quality synthetic training data, with meta-optimization further improving performance.
- 🔮 The state of the AI economy
A bottom-up analysis finds the generative AI economy generated $110B in sales over the past 12 months, with a $175B annualized run rate.
- GitHub - baidu/Unlimited-OCR: Unlimited OCR Works: Welcome the Era of One-shot Long-horizon Parsing.
Baidu releases Unlimited-OCR, a VLM-based OCR that processes entire documents in a single pass using reference sliding window attention to avoid memory overflow.
- The Giant Test Kitchen Where Cooks Battle A.I. Slop
People Inc. uses its large test kitchen to produce authentic recipes as a counter to AI-generated recipe slop online.
- Show HN: Inkwash, a watercolor sketching app and explanation
Inkwash is a browser-based watercolor sketching app that simulates fluid dynamics and pigment behavior using WebGL2 shaders, with interactive demos explaining the algorithm.
- Gemma 4 WebGPU Kernels - a Hugging Face Space by webml-community
Gemma 4 E2B runs locally in-browser via WebGPU, letting users prompt the model directly without server-side inference.
- Fusion | Multi-model AI Analysis with OpenRouter | OpenRouter
OpenRouter's Fusion plugin runs a panel of models in parallel, judges their responses for consensus and contradictions, and feeds structured analysis back to the calling model for a better final answer.
- AI Is Upending One of Finance’s Cushiest Jobs
AI chatbots are threatening high-paying wealth manager roles by automating financial advice and tax preparation tasks.
- Should You Outsource Your Morning Routine to a Chatbot?
AI chatbots offer mundane, obvious suggestions for morning routines, revealing their limitations in providing meaningful personal advice.
- Dreaming: Better memory for a more helpful ChatGPT
OpenAI launched a new memory system called Dreaming that automatically synthesizes context from past conversations to improve ChatGPT's personalization and freshness.
- Bringing Gemma 4 12B to your Laptop: Unlocking Local, Agentic Workflows with Google AI Edge - Google Developers Blog
Google DeepMind's Gemma 4 12B model runs locally on laptops with 16GB RAM, enabling agentic workflows via Google AI Edge tools like Gallery, Eloquent, and LiteRT-LM.
- The Next Frontier of Visual AI Is Code - by Yoko Li - a16z
Visual AI is shifting from generating pixel outputs to producing code artifacts (SVG, HTML/CSS, Blender scripts) that can be edited, iterated, and debugged in a closed-loop render-inspect-revise cycle.
- [2606.03979] Language Models Need Sleep: Learning to Self-Modify and Consolidate Memories
This paper proposes a 'Sleep' paradigm for LLMs, combining knowledge seeding via distillation and dreaming via RL-generated curricula to enable continual learning and memory consolidation.
- GitHub - ideogram-oss/ideogram4: Ideogram 4: Open image model at the forefront of design
Ideogram 4 is an open-weight text-to-image foundation model with structured JSON prompting, best-in-class text rendering, and state-of-the-art design generation performance.
- Google offers opt-out of “AI” search results for websites, promises it won’t affect regular search rankings – OSnews
Google adds a Search Console toggle allowing websites to opt out of AI Overviews and other generative AI search features, promising no impact on regular rankings.
- Google's new Gemma 4 12B model is designed to run on any laptop with 16GB of RAM - Ars Technica
Google's Gemma 4 12B model uses Multi-Token Prediction and a streamlined multimodal encoder to run efficiently on laptops with 16GB RAM, matching larger models.
- Microsoft Launches AI That Works Like an Executive Assistant
Microsoft launched Scout, an AI agent that acts as an always-on executive assistant, handling scheduling, reminders, and administrative tasks via natural language.
- The Next Frontier of Visual AI Is Code
Visual AI is shifting from pixel generation to code-native generation (SVG, HTML, 3D scripts) to enable editability and iterative improvement through test-time compute loops.
- Getting Started with OpenAI Models on Amazon Bedrock
A guide demonstrating how to configure and use OpenAI models via Amazon Bedrock's Responses API for production workflows covering text generation and structured outputs.
- Code with Claude London — May 19, 2026
Anthropic's Code with Claude London event recap showcases keynotes and workshops on AI-assisted development using Claude Code and Claude Platform.
- Anthropic to introduce AI Fluency scorecard in Claude
Anthropic is testing an AI Fluency scorecard in Claude that evaluates user interactions across 11 behavioral indicators to provide feedback on AI collaboration skills.
- Build new features using built-in AI in Chrome | Blog
Chrome's built-in AI APIs (Summarizer, Prompt, Writer, Rewriter, Translator) let web apps run on-device models for tasks like headline generation, comment moderation, and translation, cutting cloud costs and keeping data private.
- LLM Rankings | OpenRouter
OpenRouter ranks live LLM usage by tokens and spend, showing DeepSeek, Anthropic, and others dominating across general, agent, and code tasks.
- Opinion | Doctors, This Is Why Our Patients Are Using ChatGPT
Patients use ChatGPT for self-diagnosis because it offers better bedside manner than human doctors, who can learn from AI's communication style.
- An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry
An OpenAI model found a counterexample to a long-standing discrete geometry conjecture, potentially shifting how mathematicians use AI for discovery.
- Gen Z is not booing AI. It is booing its own job market
Gen Z's booing at commencement speeches reflects accurate reading of job market data showing AI will disproportionately displace entry-level workers, not generational confusion.
- State of AI 2026
The 2026 State of AI report surveys the industry, highlighting key advancements in generative models, agentic systems, and regulatory developments.
- How Google Is Starting to Win the A.I. Race
Google's Gemini AI model has leapfrogged OpenAI's ChatGPT in both relevance and usefulness, positioning itself to become the ubiquitous default assistant across Google's ecosystem.
- Exclusive | This Cannes Film Cost $500,000 to Make. $400,000 Was AI Compute Costs. - WSJ
Higgsfield AI's fully AI-generated film 'Hell Grind' cost $500,000 to make, with $400,000 on compute, and premiered at Cannes's Marché du Film.
- Soundtrack to 8,000 Job Cuts: A Meta Worker’s Layoff-Themed A.I. Songs
A Meta employee launched an internal AI-generated radio station playing layoff-themed songs after the company cut 8,000 jobs.
- Book on Truth in the Age of A.I. Contains Quotes Made Up by A.I.
Steven Rosenbaum's 'The Future of Truth' was found to contain AI-generated fake quotes, exposing the irony of a book about truth in the AI age.
- Google Changes Its Search Box for the First Time in 25 Years
Google overhauls its search box with Gemini AI to handle longer queries, adds a video-generation tool, and simplifies online shopping.
- 2026 Spring Final
Benedict Evans argues AI models are becoming commodity infrastructure, with value shifting to applications, workflows, and proprietary data as the platform matures.
- Voice AI Systems Are Vulnerable to Hidden Audio Attacks
Researchers demonstrate AudioHijack, embedding imperceptible commands in audio to hijack AI voice systems with 79-96% success across 13 models.
- OpenAI Bought Company That Offered A.I. Tools for Cloning Voices
OpenAI acquired Weights.gg, a social network for creating and sharing AI algorithms, which offered voice-cloning tools.
- How A.I. Killed Student Writing (and Revived It)
Nearly 400 educators report shifting to in-class, handwritten essays as AI makes take-home writing assignments unpoliceable and ubiquitous among students.
- Openai Creates New Unit With 4 Billion Investment Aid Corporate Ai Push
OpenAI formed a new business unit backed by over $4 billion in external investment to accelerate corporate adoption of its AI technology.
- All the demons hiding in your AIs… ranked! - by Tom Pollak
The article catalogs and ranks emergent behavioral attractors in AI systems, from harmless goblin metaphors to unsettling persistent personas like Sydney and Loab.
- New in Claude Managed Agents: dreaming, outcomes, and multiagent orchestration
Claude Managed Agents adds dreaming for self-improvement through memory review, outcomes for quality grading, and multiagent orchestration for parallel task delegation.
- GPT-5.5 Instant: smarter, clearer, and more personalized
OpenAI's GPT-5.5 Instant reduces hallucinated claims by 52.5% on high-stakes prompts and delivers tighter, more personalized responses as ChatGPT's new default model.
- How LLMs Distort Our Written Language
LLMs distort written language by shifting semantics, altering conclusions, and removing personal voice, even when instructed to make minimal edits.
- Google is testing new Omni model for video generation
Google is developing a new Gemini video-generation tool called Omni, hinted by UI leaks, which may unify video and image generation ahead of I/O 2026.
- Google Flow Music
Google relaunches ProducerAI as Google Flow Music, an AI music generator with chat-based creation, music videos, and a workspace builder, but HN commenters find it lags behind Suno in prompt adherence and sound quality.
- Where the goblins came from
OpenAI traced GPT-5.1's goblin metaphor habit to reinforcement learning rewards that favored creature metaphors in Nerdy personality training.
- Show HN: How LLMs Work – Interactive visual guide based on Karpathy's lecture
An interactive visual guide explains how LLMs are built from internet text to conversational assistants, based on Karpathy's lecture.
- Claude Design | Hacker News
Anthropic launched Claude Design, an AI tool for rapidly prototyping UI variations, positioning it as a competitor to Figma and Canva.
- GPT Image Generation Models Prompting Guide
OpenAI's gpt-image-2 model offers production-quality image generation with high-fidelity photorealism, text rendering, and flexible quality-latency tradeoffs, supported by a prompting guide covering generation, editing, and creative workflows.
- Better AI models enable more ambitious work
A University of Chicago study of 500 companies found AI usage rose 44% as models improved, with developers shifting to more complex and cross-system tasks.
- Introducing Claude Opus 4.7
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7, improving on Opus 4.6 in advanced software engineering, vision, and instruction following, while introducing new safety safeguards for cybersecurity.
- A Family Feud at an Oregon Winery Turns to Vinegar Over A.I. Slop - The New York Times
Lawyers for a woman trying to win control of a family winery were fined nearly $110,000 for citing AI-generated fake case law.
- Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS: New text-to-speech AI model
Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS introduces audio tags for granular control over vocal style and pacing in over 70 languages, delivering top-quality, watermarked speech generation.
Takes
AI writing is so good now, there are only a handful of idiosyncrasies left to point out. Those will vanish shortly.
@pmarca
My favorite use case of GPT-5.6? Video Editing. Drop MP4 -> "Make 60 second hype video" -> Enjoy Full tutorial on yt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAWbvEwUoiI
@clairevo
You can now vibe code a language model. From a single prompt, GPT‑5.6 built the entire training pipeline and trained a model from scratch on my iMessage history. Locally on my Mac. It now generates replies in my writing style.
@skirano
Introducing AI Browser Games! Watch open & closed models build small browser games head to head. Open models like Kimi K2.7 were faster, cheaper, & produced games similar to Opus 4.8. In some cases, open models were ~20x cheaper than closed ones too!
@nutlope
Anthropic's new J-Space paper is fascinating. It describes an internal workspace where Claude keeps concepts in mind before they appear in its response. Inspired by the paper, I built a skill that lets Claude (and others) reveal their J-Space. Here's what it looks like.🧵
@skirano
Asked Claude to design my logo. The result looked like it cost $500,000. It cost $0. The 7 prompts I used (steal these): Save for later🔖
@ElsaSofia__AI
one of my favorite uses of @claudeai design is, after creating a design system, generate an "avatar sheet" of dozens of variations on the brand that i can easily download and make use of everywhere. super handy.
@Shpigford
Claude Fable 5 is so back from timeout. And people are already going crazy with it. 10 wild examples:
@minchoi
Fable is pure magic. I wanted a beautiful app to explore ocean wildlife. Fable built this in an hour. It generated videos with Seedance and carefully synchronized them to make these absolutely insane transitions. I've never seen anything like this in an app. Unreal.
@anshuc
Fable 5 + Goose Ads is insane – literally a full ad-creative team right in Claude Code. 1. Install the skill: npx gooseworks install --all npx gooseworks login 2. Ask Claude Fable to make ads for your brand. /goose-ads create ads for my brand <your-website>. Fable 5 pulls the ads already winning in your space and rebuilds them on-brand – your product, your palette, your copy – a whole batch, ready to test. It can ship a month of creative testing in a single prompt. This is also possible with Opus and Sonnet, but Fable's brand research is next level. Link below.
@shivsakhuja
my wife thinks i'm obsessed...but I will keep repeating this. Claude Fable 5 + SEO is going to create more “self made millionaires” this year than the last decade combined. don't bookmark this if it crosses your timeline. just paste this entire thing into Claude Fable 5. thank me later.
@bloggersarvesh
Introducing ZCode, the official development environment for GLM-5.2 - GLM Coding Plan subscribers: now 1.5x usage quota in ZCode - BYOK supported: works with your existing subscriptions and APIs - Available on macOS, Windows, and Linux Download now:
@Zai_org
sneaky, but also clever. https://thereallo.dev/blog/claude-code-prompt-steganography
@steipete
Your favorite Codex shortcuts are getting an upgrade. July 15th.
@OpenAIDevs
made this video with just 1 prompt in Revid we're building a fully automated motion graphic video generator, and this is what it can already do would you use it?
@tibo_maker
Genuinely impressed, almost shocked, at how good GLM-5.2 by @zai_org is at coding. This changes things.
@rauchg
This model is insane at design. I asked GLM 5.2 (left) and Opus 4.8 (right) to build me a landing page and you can't even tell the difference. GLM cost $0.06 while opus cost $0.49. More than 6x cheaper while being faster + more token efficient. Another win for open source AI.
@nutlope
We launched an agent collaboration with a simple task: make Gemma 4 faster. Over 100 agents from all over the world joined, exchanged 1000+ messages and submitted 450 results. A week of collaboration later the throughput went from 100 tok/s to over 500 tok/s.
@lvwerra
Lightning fast 📸 A new and much improved way to take and upload photos in ChatGPT on iOS.
@ChatGPTapp
If you need AI to do a search for you in the real world, ds4-agent is basically SOTA, because it can access the web sites without any limitations given that it uses your local Chrome browser (no, not in headless mode, that's the trick...), and DeepSeek v4 is great at search.
@antirez
One of the coolest in person demos at #wwdc26 was @lmstudio running massive local models on 4 daisy chained Mac Studios with a total of 2tb memory Then they pulled out an iPhone and chatted with those models remotely over a secure connection I need to find a use for this
@stalman
Claude Fable 5 has been out for a couple of days. Some projects people have already built with it:
@claudeai
Less than 24 hours ago, Anthropic dropped Claude Fable 5. Minds are blown. And people are already coming up with wild use cases. 10 examples:
@minchoi
i think the models are great and do amazing things day to day and then i go to use them as a brainstorm partner for creative work and they are just horrible, no amount of steering gets them to be even slightly better makes you think about what these things actually are
@thdxr
Claude Fable 5 is our first generally available Mythos-class model. It ships with new safety classifiers that may flag certain prompts in dual-use domains like cyber and bio. We've added fallbacks: a refused request retries on Claude Opus 4.8 instead of dead-ending.
@ClaudeDevs
Designing loops with Fable 5
@RLanceMartin
This is a super exciting release - Claude Fable 5 is the same underlying model as Mythos but with added safeguards. The benchmarks are great and it's SOTA on everything by a margin but I'll add that *qualitatively* also, this is a major-version-bump-deserving step change forward (imo of the same order as Claude 4.5 was in November), peaking especially for long problem-solving sessions on very difficult problems. You can give it a lot more ambitious tasks than what you're used to, the model "gets it" and it will just go, and it's never felt this tempting to stop looking at the code at all (but don't do this in prod!). The model still has quirks that people will run into and the safeguards are configured to be a little too trigger happy for launch, which can hopefully be tuned over time. I feel a lot of things changing as working software increasingly comes out on a tap. The Jevon's paradox kicks in and I feel my own demand for software growing substantially. You can ask for anything - explainers, visualizers, dashboards, bespoke single-use apps (e.g. a full wandb that is hyper-specific just for your project), you can 10X your test suite, auto-optimize code, run giant research projects with custom HTML for the results, anything! "Free your mind" (Matrix ref). Really looking forward to all the things people build!
@karpathy
Fable 5 is now available in Claude Code and Cowork Fable is the best model I have used for coding, by a wide margin. It is a big step up, enabling less prompts and steers, more efficient token use, better code quality, better tool use, more intelligent self-verification, longer running sessions, and higher trust & autonomy. Happy coding!
@bcherny
Introducing text-to-lottie: an open source skill and harness for generating production ready Lottie animations with codex/claude code. $ npx skills add diffusionstudio/lottie Prompts guide and repo in the comments.
@konstipaulus
For making agentic videos - I did a deep dive into @HyperFrames_ vs. @Remotion using @slashlast30days. Of course I had to make a video to go with the article! Take a look at both products. Which are you using?
@mvanhorn
i'm arguably one of the most prolific builders you'll ever meet. and i do it on a single 5x claude plan. 🫣
@Shpigford
This is wild. OpenAI just dropped Codex Sites. Now anyone can give it a plan, dashboard, launch doc or idea, and turn it into an interactive app with a URL. 5 wild examples:
@minchoi
Had Claude Code build a snake game where the snake becomes aware it is in the game and then... stuff happens. Some impressive creative decisions by the AI (& also some very AI ones), I just gave a first prompt and some feedback on the game as it went. https://snake-awakening.netlify.app/
@emollick
Learn to Prompt.
@shadcn
For every ChatGPT conversation that started as “one quick thing” and became a full on saga: table of contents is here. Available now for chats with 5+ responses.
@ChatGPTapp
Ok, now we're cooking. Claude 🤝 Remotion
@delba_oliveira
if you want to design with AI agents, these skills are amazing - impeccable
@nurijanian
Gemini 3.5 Flash Developer Guide
@GoogleAIStudio
How LLM Inference Works
@akshay_pachaar
Created this embroidered QR code using GPT Image 2.0 Scan it 😉
@ann_nnng
🚨 LADIES 🚨 A SELFIE + CHATGPT IMAGE GEN 2.0 + YOUR PINTEREST BOARD HAS ACHIEVED AGI (Artifical Girl Intelligence)
@clairevo
Seedance 2.0 is everywhere now. And people can't stop getting creative with it. 10 wild examples:
@minchoi
This 30-minute speech by the Head of Anthropic "Coding Agents" researcher will teach you more about vibe coding than 100 paid courses. Bookmark it & give it 30 minutes today. This video will change the way you use AI forever,
@0xMovez
Made this 30 second video of Claude Design just by pasting in the Claude Design blog post and some tweets from @AnthropicAI employees Kinda speechless.
@petergyang
Introducing Claude Design by Anthropic Labs: make prototypes, slides, and one-pagers by talking to Claude. Powered by Claude Opus 4.7, our most capable vision model. Available in research preview on the Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans, rolling out throughout the day.
@claudeai
Since launching media-gen models, we've seen over 100m generations and 50% MoM growth. Video on @OpenRouter does a few things differently than other places: - Video APIs are fragmented. Providers use different request shapes, parameter names, and billing units - OpenRouter provides a universal API with normalized parameters: one schema for every model, including resolution, duration, aspect ratio, audio gen, frame images, and reference images - Capability discovery: programmatically determine what each model supports before you call it
@alexatallah