LightX2V releases Minimax-h3-Turbo FL2V Turbo 4-step v1.2

The r/Singularity post recalls Microsoft's Project Milo, a Kinect-era virtual character demo that was never released and was exposed as mostly faked. The poster argues the conversational, drawing-aware interaction it staged is now mundane.

Stubbs, Harvard's Samuel C. Moncher Professor of Physics and Astronomy and Dean of Science from 2018 to 2024, helped discover the universe's accelerating expansion with the High-Z Supernova Search Team in 1998. He was also inaugural project scientist for what is now the Vera C. Rubin Observatory and is a member of JASON.

Deel released a family of domain-specific models aimed at HR and payroll work, betting specialists can cut the cost of answers versus general-purpose models. No pricing or benchmark figures were disclosed in the announcement coverage.

A prospective multi-center study found non-sonographer operators using low-cost probes plus AI blind-sweep interpretation matched trained sonographers on gestational age and fetal presentation. WHO estimates 250,000+ preventable pregnancy-related deaths yearly, and two-thirds of people lack access to diagnostic imaging.

David Lan Thackray, 29, was remanded in custody after his Claude conversation was flagged to Interpol and his account suspended. He allegedly said he would "shoot up the local daycare"; his lawyer said the tirade followed a failed attempt to get help for an ear infection.

Rerank 5 ships in Pro and Fast tiers, priced at $0.05 and $0.02 per 1M tokens on the Cohere API. Rerank 5 Pro ranked first on 39 of 46 composite datasets and scored 82.2 on BRIGHT, beating Voyage AI Rerank 3 by 5.8 points.

TorchNeuron lets PyTorch apps run on Amazon's Trainium chips by changing one line of configuration, no code rewrite required. AWS says ~85% of AI apps are written with PyTorch, the toolkit Nvidia's CUDA has long been embedded in by default.