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Deutsche nach Kurz-Trip ins All wieder zurück auf der Erde
Nach mehreren Verschiebungen waren erstmals zwei Deutsche mit einer Blue-Origin-Rakete im Weltall – eine der beiden ist querschnittsgelähmt.
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Google launches Gemini 3 Pro Image, aka Nano Banana Pro, with more control, improved text rendering, and enhanced world knowledge, for free in the Gemini app (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/11/20/gemini-3-nano-banana-pro/

Google rolling out Gemini 3-powered ‘Nano Banana Pro’ image gen, editing
Google is following the launch of Gemini 3 Pro with Nano Banana Pro. The image generation and editing model is officially Gemini 3 Pro Image.

AI Image Generators Default to the Same 12 Photo Styles, Study Finds
https://gizmodo.com/ai-image-generators-default-to-the-same-12-photo-styles-study-finds-2000702012

For your edification, the most common form factor of floppy disks:
5¼ inch (no metal door thing)
3½ inch (the one the save icon was modeled after)
There were also 8 inch (used before 1980s mainly), and various not very successful 3 inch, 2½ inch and 2 inch formats.
Note that while the form factor might have been the same, a lot of diskettes aren't mutually software compatible between systems.
There's physical sub-formats (e.g. one sided, hard sectors, varying supported densities due to magnetic properties etc.) too.

DeepSeek releases DeepSeek-OCR, a vision language model designed for efficient vision-text compression, enabling longer contexts with less compute (Jonathan Kemper/The Decoder)
https://the-decoder.com/deepseeks-ocr-system-compr…

Deepseek's OCR system compresses image-based text so AI can handle much longer documents
Chinese AI company Deepseek has built an OCR system that compresses image-based text documents for language models, aiming to let AI handle much longer contexts without running into memory limits.

Meta release SAM 3, a model for detection, segmentation, and tracking of objects in images and video, and SAM 3D, which can reconstruct objects and humans in 3D (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/11/19/me

Meta's new image segmentation models can identify objects and people and reconstruct them in 3D - SiliconANGLE
Meta's new image segmentation models can identify objects and people and reconstruct them in 3D - SiliconANGLE

Bald deutlich mehr Starts der Trägerrakete Ariane 6
Die Trägerrakete Ariane 6 soll deutlich häufiger ins All starten. Die Produktion wird hochgefahren, um ab 2027 zehn Missionen pro Jahr zu ermöglichen.
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Warnungen vor KI-Blase: Nvidias Rekordzahlen beruhigen Finanzmärkte doch nicht
Die unerwartet positiven Geschäftszahlen von Nvidia haben an den Finanzmärkten nur vorübergehende Euphorie ausgelöst. Sogar für Nvidia-Aktien ging es ins Minus.

Google says the Gemini app is now able to detect images made by Google AI, with plans to roll out verification of video and audio (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/824786/google-gemini-synthid-ai-image-detection

Google Gemini is getting better at identifying AI fakes
Google is adding the ability to detect AI-generated images in the Gemini app, but only if they include Google’s own SynthID watermark.

Nano Banana Pro is great at following instructions, generates interim "thought images", and makes full infographics with well-rendered text from a short prompt (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/20/nano-banana-pro/

Nano Banana Pro aka gemini-3-pro-image-preview is the best available image generation model
Hot on the heels of Tuesday’s Gemini 3 Pro release, today it’s Nano Banana Pro, also known as Gemini 3 Pro Image. I’ve had a few days of preview access …