Google releases Gemini Omni Flash 1.1 with 4K video output

Community round-up lists an 18MB MOSS-Image Sharpness Slider LoRA that moves an image between sharp and blurry via LoRA strength alone, with no trigger word needed. The post also covers new theme LoRAs for the image model.

Wired tested Meta's Muse, OpenAI's Dots, Instinct, Anthropic's Claude Duet, Google's Gemini Spark and xAI's Grok Bot on basic tasks. Dots is the priciest at $100/month; Muse is free and has topped smartphone app download charts since its September release.

Day 366 of the build: the team demoed Asimov 1 walking with an updated locomotion policy at SWITCH in Singapore, a free public event. The robot is open-source.

Two AI Engineer talks walk through turning production failures into fixes: trace everything, let an always-on agent called Signal read traces on a schedule and file deduplicated issues, then convert failures into evals and living regression datasets. A Wonder Toys shopping assistant whose broken price filter returns out-of-budget products serves as the worked example.