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Qwen-Image is a powerful, open source new AI image generator with support for embedded text in English & Chinese

August 5, 2025
After seizing the summer with a blitz of powerful, freely available new open source language and coding focused AI models that matched or in some cases bested closed-source/proprietary U.S. rivals, Alibaba’s crack “Qwen Team” of AI researchers is back again today with the release of a highly ranked new AI image generator model — also open source. Qwen-Image stands out in a crowded field of…
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Why open-source AI became an American national priority

August 4, 2025
When President Trump released the U.S. AI Action Plan last week, many were surprised to see “encourage open-source and open-weight AI,” as one of the administration’s top priorities. The White House has elevated what was once a highly technical topic into an urgent…
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Gen AI and the Next Computing Transformation

August 4, 2025
The past few decades have seen almost unimaginable advances in compute performance and efficiency, enabled by Moore’s Law and underpinned by scale-out commodity hardware and loosely coupled software. This architecture has delivered online services to billions globally and put virtually all of human knowledge at our fingertips. The demands of gen AI, heavily reliant on predictable mathematical…
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You’ve heard of AI ‘Deep Research’ tools…now Manus is launching ‘Wide Research’ that spins up 100+ agents to scour the web for you

August 1, 2025
Chinese AI startup Manus, which made headlines earlier this year for its approach to a multi-agent orchestration platform for consumers and “pro”-sumers (professionals wanting to run work operations), is back with an interesting new use of its technology. While many other major rival AI providers such as OpenAI, Google, and xAI that have launched “Deep Research” or “Deep Researcher” AI…
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‘Subliminal learning’: Anthropic uncovers how AI fine-tuning secretly teaches bad habits

July 31, 2025
A new study by Anthropic shows that language models might learn hidden characteristics during distillation, a popular method for fine-tuning models for special tasks. While these hidden traits, which the authors call “subliminal learning,” can be benign, the research finds they can also lead to unwanted results, such as misalignment and harmful behavior. What is subliminal…
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