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Meta has appointed Robert Fergus, previously a research director at DeepMind, to head its FAIR lab after a period of leadership changes and talent departures.

OpenAI and Microsoft are renegotiating their multibillion-dollar partnership in a critical deal that could determine the AI leader's future. Microsoft, which has invested over $13 billion in OpenAI, is offering to exchange some of its equity stake for access to technology beyond their current contract's 2030 expiration.

Meta's AssetGen 2.0 is a set of new diffusion-based models for generating detailed 3D meshes and textures from text and image prompts that improve consistency, fidelity, and view-aware texture resolution over its predecessor.

Flow-GRPO integrates reinforcement learning into flow matching by converting ODEs into SDEs and using denoising reduction to enhance sample efficiency and alignment.

Bytedance's DeerFlow is an open source research assistant that employs a multi-agent architecture with search engines, web crawlers, and Python capabilities to deliver Deep Research-style reports and podcasts.

Investigative journalists have identified Toronto-area pharmacist David Do as a central figure behind MrDeepFakes.com. The site permanently shut down following the revelations. It had 650,000 users and generated over 2 billion views since 2018. The site hosted tens of thousands of non-consensual AI-generated explicit videos of celebrities, influencers, and private citizens. While non-consensual deepfakes remain legal in Canada, Prime Minister Mark Carney has pledged to criminalize it following the practice of countries like the UK and Australia.

Gemini 2.5 Pro has shown state-of-the-art performance on video benchmarks like YouCook2 and QVHighlights, outperforming GPT-4.1 and rivaling fine-tuned specialist models under equal evaluation settings.

SVAD combines video diffusion and 3D Gaussian Splatting to generate high-quality animatable avatars from a single image, achieving real-time rendering.

OpenAI has reached an agreement to acquire AI-assisted coding platform Windsurf (formerly Codeium) for approximately $3 billion.

FutureHouse, backed by Eric Schmidt, has launched AI tools to aid scientific research, including Crow, Falcon, Owl, and Phoenix.

SoundCloud reportedly changed its terms of service to permit AI training on user-uploaded content, prompting concerns over transparency and consent.