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A Reddit user reports running motion transfer and character swap locally in ComfyUI, claiming a 23-clip run with no flickering or morphing using only 3 passes; a 5-pass setting is said to add more detail.

The Five Eyes intelligence alliance issued a rare joint statement in June warning frontier AI models are "anticipated to exceed current industry expectations, fundamentally transforming both offensive and defensive cyber capabilities." The piece argues defenders must adopt an attacker's mindset rather than a defender's.

A man built a setup that trapped a local model and induced a 'pain' signal researchers had found inside LLMs; users mass-reported the project to GitHub, which took it down.

A r/StableDiffusion thread notes Minimax releases have become delayed, with the model described as taking the AI world by surprise and dominating discussion over other models. Commenters speculate about what comes next, mentioning LTX 3 and LTX 2.5.

Index-Translate handles 150 text languages with 2B, 9B, and 35B-A3B (preview) model options, plus document translation, multilingual subtitles and dubbing. Users can specify terminology and writing style.

Ploum's essay says the middle-ground "Debian AI policy" position is unsustainable, since LLM-generated contributions will slip past guardrails like mandatory human review. It frames the choice as accept AI-generated code or reject it outright.

Satlyt, founded by ex-Google and SpaceX product manager Rama Afullo, raised an $8M seed round for software that runs AI models on satellites. Its software launches Thursday on a SpaceX rocket alongside Google's Project Suncatcher prototype.