Machine Learning Research
Apple Sharpens Its GenAI Profile: Apple updates its on-device and cloud AI models, introduces a new developer API
Apple revamped two vision-language models in a bid to catch up with fast-moving competitors.
Generative AI
Business
Hollywood Joins AI Copyright Fight: Disney and Universal sue Midjourney, alleging the image generator violates their intellectual property rights
Hollywood studios joined the record companies, publishers, and artists in the fight against companies that have trained AI models on their copyrighted works.
Machine Learning Research
More Consistent Characters and Styles: Black Forest Labs Launches FLUX.1 Kontext for Generating and Alterating Images with Consistent Details
Same character, new background, new action. That’s the focus of the latest text-to-image models from Germany’s Black Forest Labs.
Business
Machine Translation in Action: Duolingo turns to AI translation to expand its most popular courses to all 28 user languages
AI is bringing a massive boost in productivity to Duolingo, maker of the most popular app for learning languages.
Machine Learning Research
Music Generation for Pros: Google upgrades its AI music tools for professional use
Google refreshed its experimental tools for composers and producers.
Machine Learning Research
New Image Generator for OpenAI API: OpenAI launches API access to GPT Image 1, ChatGPT’s viral image generator
ChatGPT’s image generator is available via API.
Machine Learning Research
Human Action in 3D: Stanford researchers use generated video to animate 3D interactions without motion capture
AI systems designed to generate animated 3D scenes that include active human characters have been limited by a shortage of training data, such as matched 3D scenes and human motion-capture examples. Generated video clips can get the job done without motion capture.
Machine Learning Research
Faster Learning for Diffusion Models: Pretrained embeddings accelerate diffusion transformers’ learning
Diffusion transformers learn faster when they can look at embeddings generated by a pretrained model like DINOv2.
Machine Learning Research
Better Images in Fewer Steps: Researchers introduce shortcut models to speed up diffusion
Diffusion models usually take many noise-removal steps to produce an image, which takes time at inference. There are ways to reduce the number of steps, but the resulting systems are less effective. Researchers devised a streamlined approach that doesn’t sacrifice output quality.
Machine Learning Research
Vision-Language, Compact and Open: Google releases Gemma 3 vision-language models with open weights
Google updated its open-weights family of large language models to include versions that handle image and video inputs.
Business
Some AI-Generated Works Are Copyrightable: U.S. Copyright Office says that no new laws are needed for AI-generated works
The United States Copyright Office determined that existing laws are sufficient to decide whether a given AI-generated work is protected by copyright, making additional legislation unnecessary.
Tech & Society
Amazon’s Next-Gen Voice Assistant: Alexa+ adds generative AI and agents, using Claude and other models
Amazon announced Alexa+, a major upgrade to its long-running voice assistant.