AI boom shows up as falling prices

The explosive automation boom is showing up as falling prices rather than soaring GDP, pushing workers into roles that only humans can fill, like art and competition. — lesswrong.com

FLUX schnell makes fast text-to-image generation

With 12 billion parameters, the text-to-image model FLUX schnell matches closed alternatives on prompt following and generates images in just a few steps under a permissive commercial license. — huggingface.co

London meetup draws broad community interest

A casual call for a London computing-community meetup drew many interested replies and suggestions for meetups further north and across Europe. — lobste.rs

Two graduates receive Czech state honors

Two graduates of a Czech technical university received state medals from the president for their achievements in AI language models and emergency-response technology. — vut.cz

FLUX Kontext edits images from text instructions

FLUX Kontext edits existing images from text instructions, maintains character and style across multiple edits, and is available as open weights under a non-commercial license. — huggingface.co