Testing WAI-Anima v1 on an RTX 4060 Laptop GPU (8GB VRAM). Ran into a tqdm OSError nightmare trying headless execution via ComfyUI API, but once launched normally it generates in 55 seconds.
WAI0731 (creator of WAI-Illustrious) released WAI-Anima v1, a derivative model based on Anima. In the two months since the February Anima article, derivative models have surged along with a LoRA toolkit and text encoder upgrades. Hands-on comparison of preview3-base and WAI-Anima v1.
LLM safety is built from multiple layers: RLHF, Constitutional AI, system prompts, and input/output filters. A breakdown of how cloud providers differ, what abliterated vs uncensored actually means, and the default censorship levels baked into local LLMs.
Google DeepMind's AI writing tool Fabula was demoed at CHI 2026. Co-designed with 42 professional writers and built on convergent iteration for story structuring and refinement, but it was first announced around September 2025 and remains a research prototype with no GA in sight.
Bryan Cantrill's 'The Peril of Laziness Lost' argues that LLMs have zero cost to write code and no motivation to abstract. Humans must serve as the 'deletion engine' or systems will bloat endlessly.
I tested local Vision LLMs (Gemma 3, Qwen2.5-VL, Llama 3.2 Vision, Gemma 4) to see if they could look at character illustrations and pixel art and generate RPG-style stats in JSON format.
colleague.skill, yourself-skill, nuwa-skill and other 'human distillation' OSS tools are exploding in popularity, primarily in China. Seeing a tool that distills colleagues, I wondered 'what if I distilled myself?' and researched how.
UC Berkeley's RDI team demonstrated that major benchmarks including SWE-bench and WebArena can be manipulated to near-perfect scores without completing any tasks. They identified 7 vulnerability patterns and released BenchJack, an automated benchmark attack tool.
Four Japanese tech giants form a new company backed by mega-banks and Nippon Steel to build a trillion-parameter foundation model for physical AI, with roughly ¥3 trillion in combined public-private funding.
Based on the 2025 Maintainers Summit consensus, coding-assistants.rst was merged into the Linux kernel, establishing rules for AI-assisted contributions: no Signed-off-by for AI, Assisted-by tag attribution, and full human responsibility.
A research project reverse-engineered Google DeepMind's SynthID image watermark using FFT-based spectral analysis. The V3 bypass achieves 91% phase removal while maintaining SSIM 0.997. Is removing an invisible watermark copyright infringement? Analysis from DMCA, EU AI Act, and Japanese law perspectives.
Sentence Transformers v5.4 adds multimodal support. Eight embedding models and four rerankers including Qwen3-VL and NVIDIA Nemotron can now be used through a unified API.
