ICE Agent’s ‘Dragging’ Case May Help Expose Evidence in Renee Good Shooting
The government has withheld details of the investigation of Renee Good’s killing—but an unrelated case involving the ICE agent who shot her could force new revelations.
Scientists create smart synthetic skin that can hide images and change shape
Inspired by the shape-shifting skin of octopuses, Penn State researchers developed a smart hydrogel that can change appearance, texture, and shape on command. The material is programmed using a special printing technique that embeds digital instructions directly into the skin. Images and information can remain invisible until triggered by heat, liquids, or stretching.
New AI system pushes the time limits of generative video
A team of EPFL researchers has taken a major step towards resolving the problem of drift in generative video, which is what causes sequences to become incoherent after a handful of seconds. Their breakthrough paves the way to AI videos with no time constraints.
Z Image Base Knows Things and Can Deliver
Just a few samples from a lora trained using Z image base. First 4 pictures are generated using Z image turbo and the last 3 are using Z image base + 8 step distilled lora Lora is trained using almost 15000 images using ai toolkit (here is the config: https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1qshy5a/comment/o2xs8vt/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button ). And to my surprise …
Agent Evaluation: How to Test and Measure Agentic AI Performance
AI agents that use tools, make decisions, and complete multi-step tasks aren’t prototypes anymore.
How Associa transforms document classification with the GenAI IDP Accelerator and Amazon Bedrock
This is a guest post co-written with David Meredith and Josh Zacharias from Associa. Associa, North America’s largest community management company, oversees approximately 7.5 million homeowners with 15,000 employees across more than 300 branch offices. The company manages approximately 48 million documents across 26 TB of data, but their existing document management system lacks efficient …
Announcing Claude Opus 4.6 on Vertex AI
At Google Cloud, we’re committed to providing customers with the leading selection of models to build and scale production-ready AI apps and agents on a platform optimized for performance, trust, and global scale. Today, we’re further expanding Vertex AI’s curated collection of models with the addition of Anthropic’s newest release: Claude Opus 4.6. Claude Opus …
Two Titanic Structures Hidden Deep Within the Earth Have Altered the Magnetic Field for Millions of Years
A team of geologists found for the first time evidence linking regions of low seismic velocity and the shape of the Earth’s magnetic field.
AI agents debate more effectively when given personalities and the ability to interrupt
In a typical online meeting, humans don’t always wait politely for their turn to speak. They interrupt to express strong agreement, stay silent when they are unsure, and let their personalities shape the flow of the discussion. Yet, when artificial intelligence (AI) agents are programmed to debate or collaborate, they are usually forced into a …
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Z-image lora training news
Many people reported that the lora training sucks for z-image base. Less than 12 hours ago, someone on Bilibili claimed that he/she found the cause – unit 8 used by AdamW8bit optimizer. According to the author, you have to use FP8 optimizer for z-image base. The author pasted some comparisons in his/her post. One can …