MiniMax H3 Chain Director V1.0 brings centralized control to ComfyUI

Blind test of everyday edits: FIBO won 15 picks vs Qwen's 12 and FLUX's 11, though Qwen took 3 of 5 rounds and FIBO Dev tied FLUX on new images. Workflow posted free on Civitai.

A r/StableDiffusion user tested over 100 h3 turbo configurations, posting 5-second clips for every generation, two per setup. The post also adds a blind-ranking option after a request.

A Reddit user fed a raw 2-minute clip to Claude Opus 5.5 on Max effort and asked for a short-form video; they report it handled cuts, motion graphics, and effects well. The post is an anecdotal single test, not a benchmark.

Sebastian Raschka published eight coding videos (11 hours) implementing reasoning models from scratch in PyTorch, starting from a pre-trained LLM. The course covers inference scaling, reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards, and distillation, and follows his earlier Coding LLMs from the Ground Up course.

About 300 employees signed a petition asking leadership to cancel a $1.3M contract supplying four AI-powered Spot robot dogs to ICE via Connecticut firm Radeco. The modified unit, nicknamed Cerberus, adds a robotic arm, thermal camera and explosive-material sensors.

Altman said he lacks "a dramatic enough word" for models finding bugs "outside of the normal threat model of what we think a hacker can do," citing "hardware-level, insane stuff." He added he no longer thinks "we're gonna be able to just patch all the bugs."