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  • TeachTech: Streamline Your Workflow with Gemini and NotebookLM

    A working session on using Google Gemini and NotebookLM for the parts of teaching and administration that eat the most time — and on the rules that govern what you may put into them. What it covered Getting access to Gemini and NotebookLM with your NYU account Teaching tasks: drafting, restructuring, and pressure-testing course material […]

  • Wan2.2: Alibaba’s Open‑Source Breakthrough in AI Video Generation

    The Wan2.2 project (hosted at Wan‑Video/Wan2.2) marks another leap forward in large‑scale, open, consumer‑accessible video generative models developed by the Wan‑AI team at Alibaba Cloud (GitHub). Released on July 28, 2025, this upgrade offers major technical advancements over the previous Wan2.1 version (Hugging Face). Key points The Wan-AI team at Alibaba Cloud released Wan2.2 on […]

  • Sam Altman: ChatGPT Therapy Chats Offer No Legal Confidentiality

    OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently issued a stark warning: conversations with ChatGPT, especially those of an emotional, personal, or therapeutic nature, do not receive the same legal confidentiality protections as interactions with human professionals—such as therapists, doctors, or lawyers. This gap means that user chats can legally be accessed and submitted as evidence in court […]

  • Introducing Qwen-Code: Alibaba’s Open‑Source CLI for Agentic Coding with Qwen3‑Coder

    Alibaba Cloud’s AI team has just released Qwen-Code, a command-line interface (CLI) tool optimized for its latest open-source code model, Qwen3‑Coder. It’s designed for agentic programming workflows and is freely available under the Apache 2.0 license (GitHub). Key points Alibaba Cloud’s AI team released Qwen-Code, a command-line interface tool optimized for its latest open-source code model, […]

  • Alibaba Unveils Qwen3‑Coder: A New Era for Agentic Code Generation

    Alibaba Cloud has officially launched Qwen3‑Coder, marking a significant leap in open‑source AI code models. Here’s why it matters: Key points Alibaba Cloud launched Qwen3-Coder, and its flagship variant Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct is a Mixture-of-Experts model with 480 billion total parameters and 35 billion active per pass. The model has a native context window of 256K tokens […]

  • Qwen3‑235B‑A22B‑Instruct‑2507: Alibaba’s Updated 235B-Parameter Instruction-Tuned LLM

    Alibaba’s Qwen team has just released Qwen3‑235B‑A22B‑Instruct‑2507, an enhanced instruction-tuned large language model with 235B total parameters (22B active), designed for chat, reasoning, coding, and long-context understanding. Key points Alibaba’s Qwen team released Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507, an instruction-tuned model with 235B total parameters and 22B active, designed for chat, reasoning, coding and long-context understanding. It is a […]

  • AI Wins Gold at 2025 International Mathematical Olympiad

    In an unprecedented milestone for artificial intelligence, Google’s Gemini Deep Think and a new experimental OpenAI model both achieved gold medal scores at the 66th International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), held July 2025 in Queensland, Australia. This marks the first time AI systems have reached this level in the prestigious high-school competition (Reuters). Key points Google’s Gemini Deep Think […]

  • OmniSVG Weights Released!

    Exciting news from the AI graphic design community: the developers behind OmniSVG have officially released the pre‑trained model weights on Hugging Face 🎉. Key points The developers behind OmniSVG officially released the model’s pre-trained weights on Hugging Face. OmniSVG was first introduced in a research paper (arXiv 2504.06263) by Yiying Yang et al. in April 2025. […]

  • Unveiling T5Gemma: Google’s New Encoder–Decoder Gemma Models

    Title In a move to reinvigorate the classic encoder–decoder framework, Google has introduced T5Gemma, a family of encoder–decoder large language models (LLMs) built atop its powerful Gemma 2 architecture. Published on July 9, 2025, this offering rekindles interest in encoder–decoder systems—long favored for their superior handling of tasks like translation, summarization, and QA—bringing fresh innovations […]

  • Introducing ChatGPT Agent: From Research to Real‑World Action

    OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Agent, a powerful new feature that bridges the gap between research and execution by enabling the AI to interact with the internet—and execute tasks—via its own virtual computer. This marks a major evolution from its previous tools, Operator and Deep Research, by combining and expanding their capabilities into a unified, agentic […]