Top stories in tech today: – Netflix walks away from Warner Bros. deal
– Jack Dorsey replaces 4K Block employees with AI
– Sam Altman’s eyeball scanner nabs deal with Gap
– NASA killed its hunt for Martian life, but China has a plan
– Quick hits on other tech news
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Tech Giants: Netflix Deal Collapse, AI Workforce Shifts, Gap Partnership
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Nano Banana 2 Launches in Gemini with Advanced Image Generation
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Nano Banana 2 just dropped in Gemini. Pro-level image quality at Flash-like speed, with more realistic scenes, vibrant lighting, richer textures, and sharper detail. It also nails multilingual text placement for logos, posters, invites, and infographics, and uses real-time
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Seedream 5.0 Lite: Advanced Image Generation with Visual Reasoning
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Seedream 5.0 Lite is live on Poe! A high-fidelity image generation model that integrates multi-step visual reasoning and precise control. Built with a unified multimodal architecture, it delivers superior character consistency, advanced editing capabilities, and enhanced world
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Technical proposal for dynamic sampling in video segmentation
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Def id say segmentation is nice but id love to see dynamic sampling based on image quality and motion (esp when coming from video)
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Qwen3.5 Flash Launches on Poe: Fast Multimodal AI Model
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Qwen3.5 Flash is live on Poe! A fast and efficient multimodal model that processes text and images seamlessly. Built with linear attention and a sparse mixture-of-experts architecture, it delivers improved inference efficiency and stronger performance than the 3 series across
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Meta Presents VecGlypher for Unified Vector Glyph Generation
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Meta presents VecGlypher Unified Vector Glyph Generation with Language Models paper:
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AI becomes first viewer as Grok learns from video
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It was awesome. Check out what Grok learned by watching this video: https://
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Nano Banana 2 debuts at number one in Image Arena
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And it's still only Feb, 2026 … Arena.ai (@arena) 🚨BREAKING: Nano Banana 2 debuts at #1 in Image Arena, and it changes the game again 🍌🍌 Officially released as Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview, it is powered by real-time information and images from web search. Highlights: – #1 Text-to-Image scoring 1279, surpassing GPT-Image-1.5 and Nano Banana Pro – Ties for #1 Single-Image Edit, scoring 1407 on par with ChatGPT-Image-Latest – Top 3 Multi-Image Edit, alongside Nano Banana Pro variants – $0.067 per image ~2x cheaper than Nano Banana Pro Congrats to the @GoogleDeepMind team for continuing to push the frontier! — https://nitter.net/arena/status/2027053222876393703#m
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Google Nano Banana 2 Image Model Launches on Poe
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Nano Banana 2 is live on Poe! Google’s latest image model combines Pro-level intelligence with lightning-fast generation. It features advanced world knowledge, precise text rendering, strong subject consistency, and 4K production-ready outputs. You can try it in Poe app on all
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AI Image Generator Fails to Produce Diverse Executive Representations
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I tried several times just now… and NOT ONCE DID IT PRODUCE AN IMAGE OF A WOMAN TOP EXEC… not once someone not white linkedin.com/posts/fabiomoio…
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