Gemini Diffusion

DiffusionGemma: 4x Faster Text Generation

DiffusionGemma: 4x faster text generation Today, we’re introducing DiffusionGemma, an experimental open model that explores text diffusion, an exceptionally fast approach to text generation. Released under an Apache 2.0 license, this 26B Mixture of Experts (MoE) model moves beyond the sequential token-by-token processing of typical autoregressive Large Language Models (LLMs). Instead, it generates entire blocks of text simultaneously, delivering up to 4x faster text generation on GPUs.

InstantRetouch: Efficient and High-Fidelity Instruction-Guided Image Retouching with Bilateral Space

Announce Type: new Abstract: Language-guided photo retouching aims to adjust color and tone while preserving geometry and texture. Recently, diffusion-based retouching shows a superior visual quality, but often struggles with both fidelity issues due to its generative nature and efficiency because of its iterative sampling process. In this work, we propose an efficient and fidelity-preserving retouching method using bilateral space manipulation, which is both compact and content-decoupled.

Google explains how it will infuse ads into AI answers

Google is integrating new forms of AI-powered advertising into its search engine's AI-generated answers. These new ad types include "Conversational Discovery ads," which tailor ads to specific search queries, and "Highlighted Answers," which appear within AI Mode recommendations. This development allows Google to serve more profit-generating content alongside its enhanced AI search features.

Google has seriously leaned into AI enshittification lately

Automated IEP Generation from Traditional Chinese Parent-Teacher Interviews via Corpus-Grounded Feature Diffusion

arXiv:2606.09603v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Writing Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) is a high-labor, knowledge-intensive document burden; English-language research has demonstrated that generative AI can significantly reduce drafting time, yet automated IEP generation in Traditional Chinese remains virtually unexplored due to domain data scarcity, strict privacy regulations, and the absence of local evaluation benchmarks. We propose a low-resource fine-tuning pipeline centered...

The Top New Features in Apple’s iOS 27 and iPadOS 27

While the news coming out of WWDC 2026 is not as dramatic as last year's iOS 26 update, where the new Liquid Glass redesign caused a big stir, Apple’s presentation still made waves. During the WWDC keynote, Apple walked through the new changes coming to the next version of its mobile operating systems, iOS 27 and iPadOS 27. These updates will roll out to iPhones and iPads later this year, likely in September.