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MIT Technology Review AI · May 18, 2026 16:01

Inside Anduril and Meta’s quest to make smart glasses for warfare

It’s been a year since the duo entered the US Army’s troubled augmented-reality contest. Here’s what it looks like so far.

Hugging Face Blog · May 18, 2026 16:00

Fine-Tuning NVIDIA Cosmos Predict 2.5 with LoRA/DoRA for Robot Video Generation

A Blog post by NVIDIA on Hugging Face

Infrastructure

Infrastructure NVIDIA

The Verge AI · May 18, 2026 15:55

Amazon Alexa Plus can now create AI-generated podcasts

Amazon is rolling out Alexa Podcasts, a new feature that allows its upgraded Alexa Plus assistant to generate podcast episodes based on a topic of your choice.

Hacker News OpenAI · May 18, 2026 15:46

Which AI Image Generator Has the Best Character Consistency? OpenAI vs Gemini vs Black Forest Labs vs Runway (May 2026) | Tech Stackups

FLUX.2 and Gemini 3.1 Flash produce the strongest character consistency across our three tests. gpt-image-2 comes in third and Runway Gen-4 last.

Models

OpenAI Models Gemini

AWS Machine Learning Blog · May 18, 2026 15:37

Integrate Atlassian Confluence Cloud with Amazon Quick | Amazon Web Services

In this post, you will learn how to set up the Confluence Cloud integration with Quick. This includes creating a knowledge base for semantic search, setting up Actions to query and manage Confluence pages, and organizing resources in Quick Spaces. Quick...

Hugging Face Blog · May 18, 2026 15:12

PaddleOCR 3.5: Running OCR and Document Parsing Tasks with a Transformers Backend

A Blog post by PaddlePaddle on Hugging Face