A new approach to sustainable AI: Offloading part of the computational burden onto light

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As artificial intelligence technologies become increasingly widespread, the growing demand for processing power and energy is emerging as a global challenge. Assistant professor Uğur Teğin from Koç University’s Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering has developed two new systems that use light itself, rather than conventional electronic circuitry, to perform computations for artificial intelligence. Published …

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The Power of Reference Videos for Believable Acting in Minimax

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A while ago u/R34vspec, at my suggestion, used reference videos to influence the actors. https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/s/AiURgoCkgj He’s been trying to get believable performances out of Minimax. His post didn’t get a lot of attention so I wanted to post showing just how much of an impact it has Edit: You have to prompt to be consistent …

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ICYMI: What landed for AI builders in September 2026

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A recap of the latest Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, and Strands updates from September 2026 At AWS, we believe the fastest path to enterprise AI is giving builders real choice at every layer: model, runtime, and tooling. That belief shapes how we invest across Amazon Bedrock, AgentCore, and Strands. Amazon Bedrock continues expanding access …

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Welcome to Gemini at Work 2026: Introducing the Gemini agent

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Editor’s note: This article is adapted from Thomas Kurian’s keynote address at Gemini at Work 2026. It includes a number of announcements: Gemini, a single, universal agent for work that answers your questions, handles your knowledge work, creates your images and media, and writes and runs code.  Inline in Workspace, Gemini works directly inside Gmail, …

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

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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

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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 …

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Normalizing Trajectory Models

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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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