Recraft V4.1 Flash is live on OpenRouter
OpenRouter lists Recraft V4.1 Flash at $0.007 per image and 1.3 seconds per image. It says the output still looks like Recraft for photography, portraits, complex scenes, logos, and early concepts.
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MAI-Image-2.6 can be tried on Foundry and OpenRouter
Microsoft AI says MAI-Image-2.6 is available to try on Foundry and OpenRouter.
Microsoft AI says image Elo rose from 864 to 1147 in nine months
Microsoft AI puts that pace at 377 points a year, or 1.6 times the next-fastest climb on the board.
Microsoft AI says MAI is hill-climbing image generation 61% faster than any other lab
Microsoft AI says MAI gained 283 Elo on text-to-image in 10 months, putting its image-generation hill-climbing pace 61% ahead of any other lab while optimizing the Pareto frontier.
Polymarket puts the chance of a U.S. AI safety bill at 13%
Polymarket says there is a 13% chance the United States enacts an AI safety bill. The associated market is https://poly.market/kJZeyQY.
Polymarket says Bernie Sanders introduced the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act
According to Polymarket, the proposal would permanently ban superintelligent AI and impose prison sentences of up to 20 years for violations.
LangChain Managed Deep Agents can run on a cron schedule
A schedule file in schedules/ that includes a cron expression and a prompt can be deployed so a Managed Deep Agent runs on its own.
Robin Huang says one API offers Seedance 2.5, GPT Image 2.5, and Nano Banana
The three models can be requested through one API from comfy, wavespeed, runware, fal, and higgsfield, with the destination chosen by price and availability.
GitHub will host beginner livestreams on the Copilot SDK starting September 24
GitHub will host beginner-friendly livestreams starting September 24 on building agentic applications with the GitHub Copilot SDK without implementing the agent loop. The series includes .NET and Java sessions, with sign-up in six languages.
Google Gemini can summarize meetings with WisprFlow
Google Gemini can use WisprFlow to summarize meetings, capture voice notes, and extract action items, including decisions from the most recent meetings.
Pocket radio example connects an ESP32-S3 to Cloudflare over WebRTC
The example sends audio and telemetry from an ESP32-S3 to browsers over Cloudflare WebRTC, lets one listener control it, and is offered for people and their agents to build from.
Microsoft Research findings show moving AI inference beyond the robot can improve task success
The findings also say the approach can increase efficiency and support more advanced physical AI workloads.
ComfyUI launches Comfy Router for image, video, 3D, and audio models
Comfy Router keeps the same model string and arguments, with no new SDK, key, or redeploy. It uses Comfy credits, with no subscription or Router fee, and launches with Comfy, Runware, Wavespeed, Fal, and Higgsfield.
Gemini can now connect with 13 new apps
The new connections include adobe, squarespace, and onepeloton. Google Gemini says people can grow a business, design assets, and plan workouts in Gemini instead of switching between tabs.
Nimble is now an OpenAI plugin for ChatGPT and Codex
Nimble says the plugin is available in the Plugins tab and lets ChatGPT and Codex combine web search with computer use, adjust retrieval after each run, and attach source controls, confidence scores, and evidence.
Center for AI Safety releases HLE-Diamond, a refined subset of Humanity's Last Exam
HLE-Diamond follows a year-long cleaning and refinement process that included input from research communities, and the release is with ScaleAILabs.
OpenWiki 0.6.0 adds shared workspaces and concurrency controls
Colin Francis announced OpenWiki 0.6.0, which groups wikis into shared workspaces with OpenWiki Link and adds concurrency controls for generating code wikis. It can also be used with antigravity and oh my pi.
Cursor says it cut token costs by 7% with no drop in agent quality
Cursor attributes the savings to tighter prompts, selective tool loading, better caching, and compressed file reads.
Qwen3.8-Flash is free in Qoder through September 30
The offer includes free accounts and does not require a claim or Credits. Qoder says it may continue the offer if people keep using the model.
CoreWeave Remote Key Encryption keeps keys in the customer's own key store
CoreWeave says Remote Key Encryption stores keys for encrypted model weights in the customer's own key store and that CoreWeave only holds ciphertext.