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Live Avatar: Streaming Real-time Audio-Driven Avatar Generation with Infinite Length ArXiv link for Live Avatar: Streaming Real-time Audio-Driven Avatar Generation with Infinite Length

Live Avatar is a real-time streaming model generating lifelike audio-driven avatars for over 10,000 seconds with a 14B diffusion model at 45 FPS. This solution overcomes fidelity and consistency challenges, changing digital communication and interactive media. https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.04677

I feel like it’s downstream of the K shaped economy

I know a lot of people who are barely hanging on. If you don’t have some exceptional ability, you have no control over your life in our society, and trillions spent on ai has zero direct impact on you

Writing-RL: Advancing Long-form Writing via Adaptive Curriculum Reinforcement Learning ArXiv link for Writing-RL: Advancing Long-form Writing via Adaptive Curriculum Reinforcement Learning

Writing-RL revolutionizes long-form writing in LLMs, drastically improving quality and coherence. Remarkably, models trained with this method also excel in long-input reasoning tasks, indicating a new paradigm for AI content generation. https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05760

From the ChatGPT community on Reddit: The 'President Test' with GPT-Image-2 Explore this post and more from the ChatGPT community

Very impressive

It seems they're running a small test on ~2% of new prosumer signups. Existing Pro and Max subscribers aren't affected (YET, BUT WILL BE).

President Trump's administration brought criminal charges against the Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil rights organization that tracks extremist groups, alleging financial misconduct, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said reut.rs/4sJGVmd

What’s the memory bandwidth?

Verge headline: Framework announces Laptop 13 Pro, 'the MacBook Pro for Linux users' Photo of a finger reaching out to touch a Framework laptop

Every time we review a Framework laptop, we find familiar pros and cons. They’re truly upgradable, incredibly repairable, but we always wish the battery lasted longer. We always wish the build quality were top notch. Today, Framework is announcing what could be the answer.

Read on: buff.ly/co2ccvu

Kimi 2.6 Thinking seems very good for an open weights model, but many rough edges compared to closed SoTA. The gap remains.

The Lem Test resulted in a 74 page thinking trace... and an okay-ish answer.

It did an okay TiKZ unicorn, an adequate twigl shader for a neogothic city in the waves, etc.

This should be criminal

Where U.S. science has been hit hardest after Trump’s first year The Trump administration has slashed the number of grants from the National Institutes of Health, with far fewer focused on women, cancer and mental health.

During Trump's first year the NIH supported 2,700 fewer projects, including a 31% drop in projects with the word "women" in them.

Trump's attack on science is undermining American innovation & more importantly, is an attack on Americans' health.

Toyota’s New Electric Sedan Is Huge, High-Tech, and Cheaper Than a Chevy Bolt Toyota has launched a new electric sedan in China together with its local joint venture partner GAC (Guangzhou Automobile Group Co), the full-size bZ7. First shown a year ago at Auto Shanghai 2025, th...

Sold only in China.
Not available in the states due to high import tariffs.

Apple taps John Ternus as CEO to replace Tim Cook, who will become chairman Apple said on Monday that John Ternus is succeeding Tim Cook as CEO, with Cook assuming the role of executive chairman on Sept. 1.

Tim Cook is stepping down as CEO of Apple on September 1st. At age 65, this feels like a reasonable time for him to retire from day to day running of Apple.

He’s helped Apple navigate both China and the Trump administration effortlessly so it’s great for the company that he’ll stay on the board.

Changes to GitHub Copilot plans for individuals - GitHub Changelog As shared in our recent blog post, we’re making the following changes to Copilot plans for individuals as part of our ongoing efforts to ensure service reliability and a sustainable…

AI token subsidies seem to be ending across the industry.

GitHub Copilot has paused new signups on multiple plans, removed Opus from $10-a-month subscriptions, and plans to move users to token/API-based billing later this year.

Usage quotas are also being reduced and users will hit limits sooner

Operator by Ultra Robotics

Maybe it’s sad that Anthropic is artificially limiting its coding abilities under the guise of cybersecurity?

From the myclaw community on Reddit: ClawHub skill theft dispute is getting worse, and the platform still looks unprepared... Explore this post and more from the myclaw community

This is kinda fascinating

People are “stealing” Openclaw skills, which is a collection of prompts in most cases

There’s a prompt injection risk but generally skills are easy to reproduce

Skills aren’t precious but will there ever be?

From the singularity community on Reddit: Image 2.0 is now online on ChatGPT and it's incredible! Just a few days ago even 3x3 grids would often struggle, now we can 10x the complexity, and it's near ... Explore this post and more from the singularity community

Looks like the new gpt image model is a step above nanobanana for diagram generation:

Meet “Roadrunner": a bipedal, wheeled robot for multi-modal locomotion YouTube video by RAI Institute

I missed this a month ago, a new wheeled-legged robot from a Boston dynamics founder

Looks like GitHub copilot pro just added a new plus tier that’s 4x more expensive

I’m getting more comfortable with pay as you go for ai coding assistants

This is cool. A guy with some biology knowledge but no lab experience used lab equipment to sequence his own dna to look for disease risk, under the guidance of Claude AI— he was inspired by the guy who made an mRNA treatment for his dog with AI

Ai is amazing!

vibe-genomics.replit.app

My sister: I don’t think this is… *anyone’s* theology.

Me: It’s mine. :3

My sister: Then you’re probably the only one who can answer the question.

Me: I have. :3

This reflects on an early criticism of OpenAI— they commercialized too early

Didn’t give the researchers enough time to understand what transformer models were doing

Caused a rush of funding to commercial chat UIs

And only now are we getting back to focusing on the underlying technology

“chatbot” is an initial application of a novel substrate

But the substrate itself has many applications that are emerging slowly

flattening LLM to just “chat” was how people missed the agent revolution: the LLM could do more than converse, it could react and call tools, it could explore

Lightning, a running robot developed by Chinese smartphone maker Honor, finished a 21-kilometer (13 mile) run in Beijing in a stunning 50 minutes and 26 seconds, beating the human world record by more than six minutes. https://cnn.it/4mLRxQ8

ByteDance introduces Flash Depth Attention (FDA): a hardware-efficient kernel that speeds depth attention up by >40,000×, making full-expressivity depth retrieval fast enough to train at scale.

MASSIVE 600 ton Liebherr mining excavator converted from diesel to electric Lloyds Metals and Energy have successfully converted a massive, 650-ton class Liebherr R 996 excavators from diesel power to electric.

The future is electric

China eyes near-total electrification of freight trucks to cut emissions China’s push to electrify heavy trucks could slash road oil demand by half, driven by cost, scale, and energy security.

I keep getting told goods move by diesel truck

Not China which is shifting to 100% electric trucking

interestingengineering.com/transportati...

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3 Waymo’s block the road at blinking red lights