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Today’s Digest

Gemini 3 Flash adds Agentic Vision, boosting complex detail recognition by 5-10%
Tencent Hunyuan Image-to-Image goes open source, becoming the only open-source model in the global top seven
OpenAI launches free research platform Prism, integrating GPT-5.2 into LaTeX
UK launches free AI training for all citizens, aiming to cover ten million people in a decade
Ant LingBot open-sources LingBot-VLA, trained on 20,000 hours of real-world data

Product & Feature Updates

1. Google’s Gemini 3 Flash Upgrades with Agentic Vision. Google has rolled out a new “ Agentic Vision (AI News) ” feature for its lightweight Gemini 3 Flash model. This upgrade allows the AI to proactively analyze images like a pro. Using a “think-execute-observe” loop, the AI can automatically crop and enlarge images, boosting complex detail recognition accuracy by 5-10%. Developers can access this functionality via API.
   
   

2. Tencent Hunyuan Image 3.0 Image-to-Image Ranks Seventh Globally. The Tencent Hunyuan team just announced the open-sourcing of their Image-to-Image version (AI News) 3.0. It’s now sitting pretty at number seven on the LMArena image editing leaderboard, making it the only open-source model in the top seven! This bad boy supports features like adding, deleting, modifying, style transfers, and old photo restoration. It’s all trained on an 80B parameter Mixture-of-Experts architecture.

3. OpenAI Launches Free Research Writing Platform, Prism. OpenAI just dropped a free research writing platform called Prism (AI News) , a godsend for academics! It deeply integrates GPT-5.2 into a LaTeX editor. Now, you can snap a photo of a whiteboard and watch it transform into perfectly formatted code. It also supports voice mode and one-click BibTeX code generation. Some netizens are even saying it’s an Overleaf killer!
   
   

4. Mistral Releases Vibe 2.0 Terminal Programming Assistant. Mistral, the European AI powerhouse, has launched an upgraded Vibe 2.0 (AI News) terminal programming assistant. Powered by the all-new Devstral 2 model, it now includes custom sub-agents for handling tests and code reviews. If it encounters a fuzzy instruction, it’ll proactively ask for clarification. You can get your hands on this as part of the monthly $14.99 Le Chat Pro plan.

5. Google’s Aluminum OS Interface Accidentally Leaked. Google’s Aluminum OS interface got accidentally leaked while they were handling a bug report, spilling the full scope of the ALOS system (AI News) . This bad boy is the lovechild of Android and ChromeOS! A Gemini icon prominently popped up in the status bar, and the Chrome browser fully supports the plugin ecosystem. All this is built on the unreleased “Android 16."
   
   

Cutting-Edge Research

1. AI-Generated Data Contamination Erodes Diagnostic Reliability. New research (AI News) , which analyzed over 800,000 synthetic data points, reveals that AI-generated data contamination is eroding diagnostic reliability. Models gradually converge towards a generic phenotype, with rare findings like pneumothorax vanishing from AI-generated content. The false sense of security rate has skyrocketed to 40%! Doctors confirmed that after just two generations, the data became clinically useless.

2. THUNDER Framework Enhances 3D Avatar Lip-Sync. A new paper (AI News) introduces the THUNDER framework, which significantly boosts 3D avatar lip-sync quality. It proposes an “analysis-as-audio synthesis” method, creating new supervision signals through differentiable sound generation. This allows the framework to reverse-engineer audio from lip movements for verification, all while maintaining diverse, high-quality expression generation.

3. HalluJudge Detects Code Review Hallucination Issues. New research (AI News) presents HalluJudge, a detection scheme designed to tackle LLM code review hallucinations. HalluJudge employs four key strategies to evaluate generated content, achieving an F1 score of 0.85 at a mere cost of $0.009! Plus, 67% of its evaluation results align with developer preferences, making it a practical safety mechanism.

Industry Outlook & Social Impact

1. UK Launches Free AI Training Program for All Citizens. The UK government just announced a free AI training program (AI News) for all adults! Some courses are as short as 20 minutes, with a ten-year goal of covering 10 million working-age people. This initiative is expected to unleash £140 billion in economic potential annually. Plus, they’re setting up an “AI and Future of Work Department.”

2. Ant LingBot Open-Sources Strongest VLA Foundation Model. Ant LingBot has open-sourced LingBot-VLA (AI News) , an embodied AI model that’s a real powerhouse! Trained on a whopping 20,000 hours of real-world data, it’s the first to validate VLA’s Scaling Law effectively in real-world scenarios. It even surpassed top models like π0.5 in authoritative evaluations. They’re not building robot bodies; they’re all about creating a universal brain.

3. Clawdbot Forced by Anthropic to Change Its Name. The wildly popular Clawdbot (AI News) got a visit from Claude’s company, demanding a name change! The developer confirmed the change wasn’t their choice, and it’s now officially Moltbot, inspired by a lobster shedding its shell. Despite the drama, its GitHub Star count has already soared past 72.2k. Netizens are throwing shade, asking if Anthropic just can’t stand to see others succeed.

Top Open-Source Projects

1. memU Provides Memory Functionality for Always-On Agents. memU, a memory function project (AI News) with 5.3k stars, is specifically designed for proactive agents like Moltbot. It enables AI agents to remember user habits across sessions, tackling the challenge of long-term memory persistence.

2. Kimi Launches Official Command-Line Agent Tool. Moonshot AI has open-sourced kimi-cli (AI News) , a project with 4.4k stars, positioning it as the next-gen CLI agent. It works wonders with the Kimi K2.5 model, offering precise code identification and high efficiency.

3. LobeHub Multi-Agent Collaboration Framework Gets Major Update. LobeHub (AI News) , a project boasting 70.7k stars, just received a massive upgrade! It now enables seamless multi-agent collaboration, making it super easy to design agent teams. By treating agents as fundamental units for work interaction, LobeHub aims to create the ultimate space for both work and life.

4. PS2Recomp Allows Porting Old Games to PC. PS2Recomp (AI News) , a PS2 static recompiler with 1.3k stars, has been released, enabling the creation of native PC ports for PlayStation 2 games. It even includes runtime tool support!

5. Vision-Agents for Rapid Visual Agent Construction. Stream has open-sourced Vision-Agents (AI News) , a visual agent framework with 4.0k stars. It supports any model and video provider, leveraging edge networks to achieve ultra-low latency.

Social Media Buzz

1. Antfu, the Legend, Open-Sources Personal Dev Preference Skills. Antfu, the dev legend, has open-sourced his personal dev preference skills project, antfu/skills (AI News) ! It’s packed with the latest and greatest best practices for the Vue ecosystem, covering goodies like Slidev, VueUse, and Turborepo. You can get it all installed with just one command: pnpx skills add antfu/skills.
   
   

2. Netizen’s Hilarious Attempt to Find a Partner with Clawdbot. A netizen shared a hilarious story of trying to get Clawdbot to find them a partner (AI News) ! The AI analyzed ten years of chat history, identifying 4,732 potential matches. With a success rate of 0.02%, it was statistically on point! And get this, it even automatically booked a wedding venue… at Starbucks.

3. Guizang Releases Video Packaging God-Tier Skills. Guizang has dropped “ Video Packaging Skills (AI News) ,” a truly god-tier tool that automatically adds animated effects to your videos. It comes with four style themes and over ten effect components built-in. Plus, it’s all done locally, only consuming CC Tokens! Say goodbye to video packaging woes with just one click.
   
   

4. Gemini Members Can Claim Google Cloud Credits. Gemini subscribers (AI News) , listen up! You can claim monthly Google Cloud credits: Ultra users get $100, and Pro users get $10. Just head over to developers.google.com to grab yours!
   
   

5. Z-Image Full-Power Version Officially Released. The full-power version of Tongyi Z-Image (AI News) has officially dropped! It boasts stronger semantic understanding and supports LoRA and fine-tuning. Keep in mind, as a foundation model, it needs to be combined with LoRA for best results. Its regular image generation is slightly less robust than the Turbo version, though.
   
   

6. Someone Wrote a Paid News Website Cracking Tool. A netizen shared a friend’s program and skill (AI News) that’s a bit of black magic: it lets you read all overseas paid news websites for free! Talk about a neat trick.
   
   

7. China’s “Big Three” LLMs Are Killing It Lately. According to a netizen’s summary (AI News) , China’s “Big Three” large models are absolutely killing it lately! GLM 4.7 is selling out because its cost-performance ratio is just too good. MiniMax m2.1 got a massive boost from being adopted by Clawdbot. And Kimi K2.5 is crushing it with its multimodal capabilities enhancing its frontend prowess.

8. Reddit Debates AI Agent Attack Statistics. A recent security report (AI News) , hotly debated on Reddit, revealed that out of 74,636 monitored interactions this week, a staggering 37.8% involved attack attempts on AI agents. A new threat emerging is poisoning message attacks between multi-agent systems. Data leaks accounted for 19.2% of attacks, with jailbreaks at 12.3%.

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