Turns out LTX-2 makes a very good video upscaler for WAN

I have had a lot of fun with LTX but for a lot of usecases it is useless for me. for example this usecase where I could not get anything proper with LTX no matter how much I tried (mild nudity): https://aurelm.com/portfolio/ode-to-the-female-form/ The video may be choppy on the site but you can download it …

AI model edits can leak sensitive data via update ‘fingerprints’

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems are now widely used by millions of people worldwide, as tools to source information or tackle specific tasks more rapidly and efficiently. Today, some of the most used are large language models (LLMs), computational models trained on large collections of texts that can process and generate written content in various languages.

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Amazon SageMaker AI in 2025, a year in review part 1: Flexible Training Plans and improvements to price performance for inference workloads

In 2025, Amazon SageMaker AI saw dramatic improvements to core infrastructure offerings along four dimensions: capacity, price performance, observability, and usability. In this series of posts, we discuss these various improvements and their benefits. In Part 1, we discuss capacity improvements with the launch of Flexible Training Plans. We also describe improvements to price performance …

Quantum computer breakthrough tracks qubit fluctuations in real time

Qubits, the heart of quantum computers, can change performance in fractions of a second — but until now, scientists couldn’t see it happening. Researchers at NBI have built a real-time monitoring system that tracks these rapid fluctuations about 100 times faster than previous methods. Using fast FPGA-based control hardware, they can instantly identify when a …

AI chatbots provide less-accurate information to vulnerable users, study shows

Large language models (LLMs) have been championed as tools that could democratize access to information worldwide, offering knowledge in a user-friendly interface regardless of a person’s background or location. However, new research from MIT’s Center for Constructive Communication (CCC) suggests these artificial intelligence systems may actually perform worse for the very users who could most …

I built a free local AI image search app — find images by typing what’s in them

Built Makimus-AI, a free open source app that lets you search your entire image library using natural language. Just type “girl in red dress” or “sunset on the beach” and it finds matching images instantly — even works with image-to-image search. Runs fully local on your GPU, no internet needed after setup. [Makimus-AI on GitHub](https://github.com/Ubaida-M-Yusuf/Makimus-AI) …