Robin Rombach and a group of key researchers that helped develop the Stable Diffusion text-to-image generation model have left the troubled generative AI startup.

Scoop:

Multiple Stability AI researchers are departing, including the original coauthors on the research that evolved into viral text-to-image model Stable Diffusion.

It's the latest big blow to the cash-strapped startup. From @_IainMartin and me:

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An analysis of the exceptionally well preserved remains of a Bronze Age village reveals the cozy domesticity of life in Britain 2,850 years ago.

…untary enquiry from a state authority that included a requirement for confidentiality

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If you had code on GitHub at any point it looks like it might be included in a large dataset called “The Stack” — If you want your code removed from this massive “ai” training data go here:

https://huggingface.co/spaces/bigcode/in-the-stack

I found two…

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When OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced GPTs, custom chatbots powered by OpenAI's generative AI models, onstage at the company's first-ever developer

A new Northeastern study delves deep into how parrots use touchscreen devices, with the help of a bespoke gaming app.

In a bold move against democracy, Apple @Apple succumbed to Russian Roskomnadzor's demands, removing Alexei Navalny's Photon-2024 app. This app, conceived by Navalny before his tragic end, was designed to navigate the quagmire of 'choice' under Putin's regime.…

A huge blocklist of manually curated sites that contain AI generated imagery for uBlock Origin & uBlacklist. - laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist

GritQL is a query language for searching, linting, and modifying code. - biomejs/gritql

All the “C++ killers”, even these which I wholeheartedly love and respect like Rust, Julia, and D, help you write more features with fewer bugs, but they don't much help when you need to squeeze the very last FLOPS from the hardware you rent. As such, they…