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News of the Day

Meet FLUX.1: Edit Images with Text

Black Forest Labs launches FLUX.1 Kontext, a next-gen AI tool for image editing

Black Forest Labs has launched FLUX.1 Kontext, a cutting-edge AI model that lets users edit and transform images with simple text commands. It can handle both text and visual inputs, offering fast, detailed, and consistent image editing.

  • FLUX.1 Kontext understands both images and text, allowing precise edits.

  • It’s up to 8x faster than other models and excels in keeping characters and styles consistent.

  • BFL also released Playground, a web tool for businesses to test models before integrating them.

This release pushes AI image editing forward by keeping character details consistent across edits, something other tools like OpenAI’s GPT-4o often struggle with.
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2nd News of the Day

NYT’s First AI Deal

The New York Times has signed its first-ever AI licensing deal with Amazon, allowing the company to use NYT’s editorial content across its platforms and to train AI models.

  • The multi-year deal gives Amazon access to NYT articles, recipes from NYT Cooking, and sports content from The Athletic.

  • The content will appear in Amazon products like Alexa, with proper credit and links for a full reading experience.

  • This is NYT’s first AI licensing deal, it follows ongoing lawsuits against OpenAI and Microsoft for using NYT content without permission.

The New York Times, a major holdout in the AI world, is now joining the wave. The deal highlights how AI is reshaping media, and even big players like the Times are adapting. It also shows the growing power of Amazon in the AI space.
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Trending Tools of Day

Perplexity Labs
Where Knowledge Begins

Podgen
Generate AI Podcasts from prompts, youtube, links and files

Odyssey
AI video you can both watch and interact with in real-time

AI Video Generator by Gan.AI
The easiest way to produce professional videos from Scripts

Manus Slides
Instant, stunning presentations from a single prompt

Everything else

🤖 Agent Audit: Builder John Rush has experimented with 46 different coding agents. Here’s his rundown of the strengths and weaknesses of each one.

❤️ Heart Hack: Investor Kevin Rose explains how he used AI to analyze his entire genome and find supplements that, for the first time, lowered a chemical in his body linked to heart disease.

🧑‍💻 Shifting Gears: VC giant a16z shows how SEO is gradually getting replaced with GEO (generative engine optimization) and how you can make sure your site gets included in AI-generated summaries and citations.

🔮 Hand of Fate: Google Veo 3 model is so powerful, it seems to have revived “prompt theory”, or the idea that all of our actions are dictated by prompts written by a higher power. Here’s an eerie, Veo-generated video describing the phenomenon.

✍️ New and Improved: Speaking of Veo, AI instructor Rory Flynn just shared a revamped version of his Veo prompting guide, which features base prompts you can use to get more accurate outputs.

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