How to Get Better AI Image Results
Practical techniques for getting better results from AI image generators, including detailed prompting, reference images, and known model…
Rust Adopts a Formal Policy on LLM Use
The Rust programming language's core project adopted a formal policy restricting LLM-authored contributions after months of debate over…
DeepSeek’s New Model Costs Pennies
DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 exited preview at $0.14/$0.28 per million tokens, beating DeepSeek's own 1.6-trillion-parameter Pro model on agentic coding benchmarks.
MiniMax Open-Sources H3 Video Model
MiniMax open-sourced H3 on August 3, 2026, a unified video generation model that produces 2K clips with native…
Google’s Lyria 3.5 Takes Aim at Suno
Google launched Lyria 3.5 inside Flow Music on July 29, 2026, promising more natural vocals, as major labels…
OpenAI Is Shutting Down Sora
OpenAI discontinued the Sora consumer app in April 2026 and will shut down the Sora API on September…
Meta Pulls Muse Image Privacy Feature
Meta launched Muse Image on July 7, 2026, then reversed a default-on Instagram @-mention remixing feature after user…
Microsoft’s New Copilot Default Model
Microsoft's in-house coding model, reported as Project Polaris, replaces GPT-4 Turbo as GitHub Copilot's default engine starting August…
Google Cancels AI Studio App for Gemini
Despite 800,000+ preorders, Google scrapped its standalone AI Studio mobile app and is folding app-building tools directly into…