These are my links for January 5th
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Canva spent the past week showing off an AI model that creates images, and now it’s turning to the harder task of reworking them. On Thursday, the company introduced Brush, an in-house vision-language model built to edit designs. Because Brush reads both what’s in a design and how it’s arranged, Canva AI users can make […]
Somewhere in prehistory, someone figured out how to make fire, showed others, and watched the knowledge spread until anyone could summon a flame. Mario Rodriguez, GitHub’s chief product officer, considers it probably the first open source project on Earth, and he sees that same instinct to share and remix at the heart of everything his […]
Oracle has become one of OpenAI’s most important infrastructure partners. The AI company trained its GPT-6 Astra model at Oracle’s Abilene, Texas, data center site, the flagship campus of Stargate, the $500 billion data center venture OpenAI formed with Oracle, SoftBank, and MGX. Karan Batta, who runs product for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), described the […]