OpenAI shelves GPT-6.1 Astra over safety failures

Former White House AI and crypto czar David Sacks said on Fox Business' 'The Bottom Line' that the US will lose to China if current AI regulation continues. He framed the debate as a global technology race.

A photographer built Citrine Photo, a free open-source Windows desktop app that runs SeedVR2 photo upscaling locally with no cloud dependency. Users drag in a single photo or an entire folder, choose an output size, and process everything on their own PC.

Malaysia intends to introduce its first dedicated artificial intelligence law in early 2027, per Bloomberg. The move comes as governments worldwide step up regulation of AI over risks and potential misuse.

A researcher spent 3 months building software for designing quantum circuits that runs ~10,000x faster; GPT-6 Astra then took the already-optimized code and made it another ~10x faster overnight.

Southeast Asia, China, Japan and South Korea are more at risk than most economies from a potential collapse in the AI boom, per researchers cited by Bloomberg. A correction could trigger shocks across financial markets and the real economy.

A Ref2v-only workflow shared on r/StableDiffusion aims to fix static video generation, with the author describing it as a concept rather than a finished tool. Code is posted at github.com/roycho87/refreshing_extender.