This weekend in Generative Media

Grimes sells AI art; "A Different World" AI upscale trainwreck; Did AI crack Kryptos?

News and Opinion

• Grimes, mother of Elon Musk’s children, sells ‘controversial’ AI artwork (The Times)

• Netflix brought back A Different World of AI-upscaled nightmare fuel (The Verge)

• AI Thinks It Cracked Kryptos. The Artist Behind It Says No Chance (Wired)

• Hugging Face’s chief science officer worries AI is becoming ‘yes-men on servers’ (TechCrunch)

• AI's "freaks and geeks" divide (Axios)

• Signal President Meredith Whittaker calls out agentic AI as having ‘profound’ security and privacy issues (TechCrunch)

• AI is Removing the Grind in Game Development — and Creating Something New (John Spitzer on LinkedIn)

• Apple delays Siri AI improvements to 2026 (CNBC)

Software

• Microsoft releases a Copilot app for Mac (The Verge)

• Today with Ray2 Flash we are introducing a new method of distilling frontier models that retains all their capabilities and ultra high quality -- at 500% higher efficiency! (LinkedIn)

• This repository contains the official implementation of "Efficient Perspective-Correct 3D Gaussian Splatting Using Hybrid Transparency". It is provided as an extension to the NeRFICG framework. (GitHub)

• Google adds a Gemini panel to Calendar to help you manage your schedule (TechCrunch)

Research

• FluidNexus: 3D Fluid Reconstruction and Prediction from a Single Video (yuegao.me)

• S2Gaussian: Sparse-View Super-Resolution 3D Gaussian Splatting (project page)

• Beyond Existance: Fulfill 3D Reconstructed Scenes with Pseudo Details (arXiv)

Misc

• A selection of outputs from this flat style lora (X)