Machine Learning Research
xAI’s Cost-Effective Video Generator: Grok Imagine 1.0 sharply cuts costs for high-quality video generation
xAI launched a video generator that topped an independent quality ranking at a fraction of competitors’ prices.
Generative AI
Business
AI on Mobile Skyrockets: State of Mobile 2026 Report shows AI chatbot, search, and assistant growth outpaces gaming, social, and more
Downloads of mobile AI apps and resulting revenue are surging.
Machine Learning Research
Nano Banana 2 Ups Performance/Price: Gemini 3.1 Flash Image makes photo generation and edits easier and faster
Google launched a cheaper, faster successor to its flagship image generator, delivering greater interactivity at roughly half the price.
Business
Investors Panic Over Agentic AI: Claude Cowork plugins trigger a SaaS stock selloff, but partnerships lead to slight rebound
Makers of software that runs large companies saw their share prices plunge as investors worried that AI systems could undermine their businesses. This week, their stocks rebounded somewhat as Anthropic partnered with some of the same companies.
Machine Learning Research
Refining Words in Pictures: Z.ai’s GLM-Image blends transformer and diffusion architectures for better text in images
Image generators often mangle text. An open-weights model outperforms open and proprietary competitors in text rendering.
Machine Learning Research
Detailed Text- or Image-to-3D, Pronto: FlashWorld generates 3D objects, scenes, and surfaces with photorealistic fidelity
Current methods that produce 3D scenes from text or images are slow and produce inconsistent results. Researchers introduced a technique that generates detailed, coherent 3D scenes seconds.
Business
ChatGPT Shows Ads: OpenAI tests advertisements for U.S. chatbot users in free and lower-cost tiers
AI has a new revenue stream, and it looks a lot like old web banner ads.
AI Careers
Education That Works With — Not Against — AI by Juan M. Lavista Ferres: Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Chief Data Scientist at Microsoft, on assignments that properly test students’ abilities
A little more than three years ago, OpenAI released ChatGPT, and education changed forever. For students, the ability to generate fluent, credible text on demand in seconds is an incredible new tool.
Business
Disney Teams Up With OpenAI: OpenAI’s Sora video generator will include Disney characters, with fan videos on Disney+
Disney, the entertainment conglomerate that owns Marvel, Pixar, Lucasfilm and its own animated classics from 101 Dalmatians to Zootopia, licensed OpenAI to use its characters in generated videos.
Machine Learning Research
Coherent, Interactive Worlds: Runway’s GWM-1 models generate videos with consistent physics for robots and entertainment
Runway’s GWM-1 family of video-generation models respond to user input in real time while producing scenes that remain consistent regardless of the camera’s position.
Machine Learning Research
Generated, Editable Virtual Spaces: World Labs makes Marble world model public, adds Chisel editing tool
Models that generate 3D spaces typically generate them as users move through them without generating a persistent world to be explored later. A new model produces 3D worlds that can be exported and modified.
Machine Learning Research
Open 3D Generation Pipeline: Meta’s SAM 3 image segmentation models can analyze and create bodies and other objects
Meta’s Segment Anything Model (SAM) image-segmentation model has evolved into an open-weights suite for generating 3D objects. SAM 3 segments images, SAM 3D turns the segments into 3D objects, and SAM 3D Body produces 3D objects of any people among the segments. You can experiment with all three.