A year ago (and still to this day) people have been claiming AI models have hit a wall. Since then: - A significant SOTA for video gen was presented, multiple less significant SOTA released - Audio Gen improved even further with even more fine tuned control

Google literally just killed 100s of startups Their new “File Search Tool” (incredibly dumb and misleading name btw) is a hosted RAG solution that allows you to upload files like DOCX and PDF, and chat with them This could be used for things like customer chat bots, where you just put in your company data (FAQs etc) Wild times

BREAKING FOX NEWS: Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy goes on the record: "Pilots need to stop depending on air traffic controllers. They need to suck it up and go with their gut feelings."

If you’re wondering why GTA 6 is taking so long: Red Dead Redemption 2 has fully rendered 3D clouds that you can fly through, in a game that has no flying… You only see this ONCE in the main story, unless you use mods. Ridiculous amount of detail.

Generated by Nano Banana/GemPix 2. No reference image, just txt2img. Holy smokes.

🚨 Nano Banana 2 completely smashed both the clock AND full wine glass tests in ONE IMAGE. "11:15 on the clock and a wine glass filled to the top" Holy. Shit.

This is an important one, I think. AI progress and recommendations: openai.com/index/ai-progress…

A user that goes by EF5 on en.wiki mapped out the Rip Bonito, Paraná, Brazil tornado geolocation damage. Looks like it went nearly straight east

🚨 Massive tornado in Brazil. A powerful tornado tore through Rio Bonito do Iguaçu, Paraná, Brazil, yesterday, leaving at least five people dead and over 430 injured. Winds reached up to 250 km/h, flattening much of the city and leaving what officials described as a “war-like scene.” Around 80% of the urban area was severely damaged, with widespread power outages and disrupted water supplies. Emergency teams from across Paraná, including Curitiba, were deployed for search and rescue operations, and a field hospital was set up to treat the injured. The tornado, confirmed by meteorologists as an F2 event and possibly an F3, formed from a supercell storm, marking one of the most destructive weather disasters to hit the region in recent years.

Ungarn ist mittlerweile Weltspitze beim Anteil des Stroms aus Sonnenenergie. Weil dies billig ist und unabhängig von Importen macht. Ökonomie ist stärker als Ideologie. Das wird sich in Zukunft auch in den USA zeigen. spiegel.de/wissenschaft/unga…

Look at this crazy spiral-hook inside the eye of Typhoon Fung-wong (UwanPH) right now.

Vor wenigen Stunden wurde die Stadt Rio Bonito do Iguaçu im Süden von Brasilien direkt von einem starken Tornado getroffen. Die Innenstadt wurde direkt getroffen, viele Wohnhäuser und andere Gebäude scheinen dabei vollständig zerstört worden zu sein

the fact that Meta internally identifies ads as scams but then instead of banning them just charges them a premium is so goddam heinous man

I am pretty confident the Rio Bonito do Iguacu tornado will receive a rating of F4 in the end. This is absolutely some of the worst city-wide tornado destruction I have ever seen in South America. facebook.com/share/p/1Frk6x4…

🧮 Google just published DS-STAR A data science agent that can automate a range of tasks — from statistical analysis to visualization and data wrangling. Reads messy files, plans steps, writes and runs code, and verifies itself, reaching state of the art on tough multi file tasks. It lifts accuracy to 45.2% on DABStep, 44.7% on KramaBench, and 38.5% on DA-Code, and holds first place on DABStep as of September-25. Earlier agents lean on clean CSVs and struggle when answers are split across JSON, markdown, and free text. DS-STAR begins by scanning a directory and producing a plain language summary of each file’s structure and contents that becomes shared context. A Planner proposes steps, a Coder writes Python, a Verifier checks sufficiency, a Router fixes mistakes or adds steps, and the loop stops when it passes or reaches 10 rounds. This setup handles heterogeneous data because the summaries surface schema, types, keys, and hints, so plans refer to real fields instead of guessing. On benchmarks the gains are steady, moving from 41.0% to 45.2% on DABStep, 39.8% to 44.7% on KramaBench, and 37.0% to 38.5% on DA-Code. Ablations explain the lift, removing the Data File Analyzer drops hard task accuracy on DABStep to 26.98%, and removing the Router also hurts across easy and hard tasks. Refinement depth matches difficulty, hard tasks average 5.6 rounds, easy tasks average 3.0 rounds, and over 50% of easy tasks finish in 1 round. The framework generalizes across base models, with a GPT-5 version doing better on easy items and a Gemini-2.5-Pro version doing better on hard items. Net effect, DS-STAR reduces the gap between messy data and reliable answers across CSV, XLSX, JSON, markdown, and plain text.

TY #FungWong #UwanPH is located in some of the highest SST on Earth right now, coupled with high OHC, but it's also within the area with moderate to high VWS. With its large size, ragged eye, and dry air intrusion, its rapid intensification phase might be limited or short-lived.

We need more papers like this one which examines how AI agents & humans work together Current agents were fast, but not strong enough to do tasks on their own & approached problems from too much of a programing mindset. But combining human & AI resulted in gains in performance

Video showing the monster tornado that hit Rio Bonito do Iguaçu, Paraná, Brazil, yesterday 😳

"China setzt voll auf Kernenergie! Die vervierfachen die Kapazität bis 2035!!!" China:

Daylight reveals horrific destruction in Rio Bonito do Iguaçu, Brazil — a municipality of nearly 15,000 that took a direct hit from a violent tornado just hours ago. At least 5 people are dead and dozens more injured.