How Black Forest Labs, a 70-person startup based in Germany, became a top competitor in AI image generation; sources: it recently declined to partner with xAI (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/black-forest-labs-ai-image-generation/
I suppose since I talked about my life as a musical weirdo, I should link to it! I don’t have a Soundcloud; I have a completely bespoke personal web site I made from the ground up because of everything upthread.
Something dreamy and old-school:
https://innig.net/music/inthehands/brahms-ballade-10-4
Something dreamy and new-school:
https://innig.net/music/scores/words/
Something with a long dramatic arc:
https://innig.net/music/albums/brokenmirror/
ICYMI, CSS Image Animation Module Level 1 FPWD landed yesterday:
https://www.w3.org/TR/css-image-animation-1/
It mostly punts accessibility, partly from misunderstanding.
I filed three issues so far:
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Some Places with Snow II ❄️
一些有雪的地方 II ❄️
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Ilford FP4 Plus 125, expired 1993
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography
NYT defends a March 9 photo showing a massive crowd in Tehran celebrating Mojtaba Khamenei's appointment as Iran's leader, after allegations of AI manipulation (Corbin Bolies/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/jo
Luma AI debuts Uni-1, an image model that combines image understanding and generation in a single architecture, topping Nano Banana 2 on logic-based benchmarks (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)
https://the-decoder.com/luma-ais-new-u
Chipforschung: Europas Imec bekommt High-NA-EUV-System
Europäische Forscher und Unternehmen bekommen Zugriff auf das modernste Lithografie-System der Welt. Das Imec weiht einen passenden Reinraum ein.
https://www.