AI image watermarks can survive new model training, but durability varies by design

Watermarks are increasingly being used to make AI-generated images recognizable and to ensure their origin can be traced. Previous research has focused on whether watermarks can withstand image manipulation. CISPA researcher Michel Meintz from the SprintML Lab has investigated whether watermarks can withstand the training of a new generative model.

[MiniMax-H3] Subtle expressions and natural pauses without any prompting

There are plenty of videos around with characters that look like AI or have plastic skin or talk like a robot. What about emotions, or subtle facial expressions, or natural pauses? The solutions and advice usually offered include complex prompt guides or access to paid platforms. I don’t like that. Paid platforms, I mean. I …

Normalizing Trajectory Models

Diffusion-based models decompose sampling into many small Gaussian denoising steps, an assumption that breaks down when generation is compressed to a few coarse transitions. Existing few-step methods address this through distillation, consistency training, or adversarial objectives, but sacrifice the likelihood framework in the process. We introduce Normalizing Trajectory Models (NTM), which models each reverse step …

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Pay-per-inference for AI agents: How BlockRun and Incarna use Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments

When an AI agent runs, it often needs to buy something to finish a task: a model inference, an API response, access web content, or a call to another agent. These purchases are small and frequent, sometimes a fraction of a cent each, and they happen inside the agent’s loop with no person available to …

Innovation in Ireland: How Irish brands scale with Gemini Enterprise

In recent decades, Ireland has grown into a vibrant hub for global technology. As modernization accelerates, Irish organizations — spanning government agencies, established enterprise brands, and growing startups in AI and other areas — are all advancing their technical foundations. Today, leaders across the country are injecting agentic AI into every layer of their business …