AI Systems
AI News
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Aug 23, 2026
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A new tool turns rough video into 4K.
Black Forest Labs released a video upscaler on 20 August. You can now make many low cost takes and pay for quality once, at the end. One setting is on by default, and it quietly changes faces.
Suno
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Aug 22, 2026
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The prompt can be a melody now.
Suno put MIDI on the Studio timeline, and a MIDI clip can now be the prompt for a new generation. The feature is useful. The sentence Suno wrote underneath it is more useful, because it says out loud where describing music in words stops working.
AI News
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Aug 18, 2026
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Sora has a shutdown date.
The app and the website went dark on the twenty-sixth of April. Everything that is left switches off on the twenty-fourth of September. On the table where OpenAI lists what to move to, the row for Sora holds a dash.
AI News
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Aug 16, 2026
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The new rate has a date on it.
Google shipped a workhorse model on the thirteenth of August and put an introductory number on it: three quarters of a dollar per million tokens in. That number holds until the thirty-first of December. On the first of January it doubles.
AI News
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Aug 10, 2026
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The licence that finally says yes.
Meta published a 30 billion parameter multimodal model today, small enough for one consumer card. The size will get the headlines. The three words that matter for paid work are Apache two point zero.
AI News
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Aug 7, 2026
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The model moved into 2.5 gigabytes.
Liquid AI put a 2.6 billion parameter model on Hugging Face on August 4 that runs in under 2.5 GB of memory. It makes no pictures at all, which is exactly why it is worth your attention this week.
