OpenAI nears $30B raise at $1.25T valuation ahead of IPO

Gov. Josh Shapiro signed the Artificial Intelligence Deceptive Advertising Act, requiring image, video, audio, or text ads "significantly modified or generated by" AI to carry a label in the same format as the ad. The law exempts parody, satire, commentary, and "evidently fictional" content, and applies regardless of where an ad was created.

Reddit users on r/StableDiffusion say LoRA and fine-tune creators are increasingly locking downloads permanently behind Civitai's Buzz currency. The poster tolerated earlier time-delayed releases for non-payers but objects to permanent paywalls.

User legarth ran environmental-effect tests on MiniMax H3 with an 8-step LoRA and SLA, covering mud splashes, smoke and detailed physics prompts like a tank flip. They said they were "still quite impressed" despite newer image models dominating attention.

Qwen Code shipped desktop-v0.26.1 and v0.26.1, adding daemon token persistence in the serve module. The release also fixes the tarball exec-bit gate to cover every spawned vendored binary.

The local open-source image app now offers Photoshop-style lasso selection for inpainting plus keyboard shortcuts for fullscreen and recovering a selection. This version also adds image-to-image support for Krea 2.